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dotsandlinesI am just over halfway through The Hunger Games trilogy (ebook form, all in one - smart move, Amazon). I vacillate between being on the edge of my seat with the shenanigans and facepalming over the characterization.
The heroes are all right, after a while - they are only vaguely sketched, but they at least act as though they have complex motives. The narrator just doesn't necessarily know what those motives are. But the antagonists, sheesh. We get it, OK? They're evil. They're all named pseudo-Roman names, they are earlobes deep in decadence, you keep telling us how snakelike they are (those who are not snakelike are ridiculously shallow), and they do all sorts of awful things right after you finish telling us about the last awful thing they did. After, of course, killing children on national TV just to entertain themselves and oppress the good and noble villagers.
Evil. We get it. Enough.
Other than that, seat, edge, shenanigans. I only started reading it on Saturday evening, and even though it is a YA novel, that speaks to a certain level of addictiveness.
The heroes are all right, after a while - they are only vaguely sketched, but they at least act as though they have complex motives. The narrator just doesn't necessarily know what those motives are. But the antagonists, sheesh. We get it, OK? They're evil. They're all named pseudo-Roman names, they are earlobes deep in decadence, you keep telling us how snakelike they are (those who are not snakelike are ridiculously shallow), and they do all sorts of awful things right after you finish telling us about the last awful thing they did. After, of course, killing children on national TV just to entertain themselves and oppress the good and noble villagers.
Evil. We get it. Enough.
Other than that, seat, edge, shenanigans. I only started reading it on Saturday evening, and even though it is a YA novel, that speaks to a certain level of addictiveness.
