Tag: the hunger games trilogy
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Suzanne Collins is Well and Truly Back With Sunrise on the Reaping
My reread of the The Hunger Games trilogy brought back so many great memories, not to mention a second look at a series that is incredibly well-written, compelling, and knows just how to drum up tension and fear. But when I read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which I didn’t review for this blog,…
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My Favourite Reads of 2024
It’s time to share my 2024 favourites! I am very happy with the books I read in 2024, finding so many gems and enjoying far more genres than expected. I have rated a far few books a 4.5 or 5 stars and I highly recommend them all. This list goes in chronological order of when…
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My Review of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy
It is no stretch of the imagination to say that Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy is one of the best YA series to exist. I don’t need to specify genre when I say this because it truly is one of the best series ever. Even reading the books with an adult lens, The Hunger…
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Mockingjay’s Cruelty is Unmatched
My heart has been ripped from my chest countless times while reading Mockingjay, the final book in Suzanne Collins’s phenomenal The Hunger Games trilogy. It is a concise novel, but that doesn’t make it any less punchy. In fact, I think I’m bruised all over after getting through this book. All jokes aside, Mockingjay ups…
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Catching Fire’s Impact Cannot Be Understated
Catching Fire marks the point of no return within the Hunger Games timeline, with the uprisings in Districts 3, 4, 8 and 11 changing the course of the narrative, not only as pivotal moments in the world of Panem but pivotal moments in Katniss’s life, where she is now stepping into the adult world within…
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Reading The Hunger Games as an Adult: How Different is the Reading Experience?
I wasn’t expecting much, in all honesty. I thought that, though it has been a decade or more since I last read the series, The Hunger Games would be a great YA dystopian book with a strong nostalgia for a time in the past, but it wouldn’t be able to surpass its YA title to…
