extremely into the way suzanne collins saw what we're doing & decided to teach us another lesson on propaganda extremely into the way suzanne collins saw what we're doing & decided to teach us another lesson on propaganda ...more
rep: sapphic & achillean minor side characters tw: blood, murder, hanging, poisoning, drug use, guns, suicidal ideation, implied sex work, abuse of correp: sapphic & achillean minor side characters tw: blood, murder, hanging, poisoning, drug use, guns, suicidal ideation, implied sex work, abuse of corpses
can we talk about how collins made president snow the mc & then wrote a book about the importance of a community and how we need to be able to trust one another because love by itself isn't the magical remedy, and how life really is about making the most of things and standing up for what you believe in? snow must be turning in his grave.
this is such a well written book! not in terms of a fancy, poetical prose - that's actually very simple. but as in: smart and thought-out in details, and using those small details to drive the point home. and so that simplicity of the style works in favour of the novel.
there were so many instances where you would almost, almost forget what kind of person snow is, and then collins reminds you with a single sentence. every romantic moment between him & lucy gray is either preceded or followed up by something truly gross and disgusting (that snow, of course, sees as natural). with other characters it's less visible, mostly because he never really cared about anyone else & if he did, they were capitol, so he had respect for them anyway. but still, what he says at any given time and what he actually thinks are vastly different things; he excels at duplicity and manipulation.
my favourite part, though, (apart from lucy gray) was the worldbuilding. the look at the games in their beginning and how snow helped to shape them into an actual event. how they were somehow even more terrifying back then, the way they were treating kids as animals, not caring if they even survive long enough to make it to the arena.
the scene at the end when snow comes back to the base and throws mementos in the trash, discarding those layers of himself? the way in the epilogue he's only referred to as snow and not coriolanus? chef's kiss....more
rep: achillean mc with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, achillean intersex li, achillean side character, Black side character tw: child abuse, cancer, past off rep: achillean mc with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, achillean intersex li, achillean side character, Black side character tw: child abuse, cancer, past off page death, drug addiction, violence
the whole book could be summed up by that one siken quote:
you're in a car with a beautiful boy, / and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to / choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and / he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your / heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you / don't even have a name for....more
it's extremely rushed and not a single thing that happens is explained, not even a little bit. you can'rep: Filipino gay mc, gay mc tw: blood, violence
it's extremely rushed and not a single thing that happens is explained, not even a little bit. you can't just pretend your fantasy book is good because you threw in lots & lots of action scenes!...more
rep: sapphic mc, Filipino sapphic mc, Filipino characters tw: mention of past child abuse
okay but reading a graphic novel by batcii feels like coming hrep: sapphic mc, Filipino sapphic mc, Filipino characters tw: mention of past child abuse
okay but reading a graphic novel by batcii feels like coming home somehow...more
anyway idk why ppl complain abt this being boring & pointless when it's literally abt willow learning to become arep: lesbian mc
this needs less xander
anyway idk why ppl complain abt this being boring & pointless when it's literally abt willow learning to become at peace with herself. some journeys don't need action ...more
rep: Never Have I Ever by Karen McManus: East Asian American side character, South Asian American side characters Like Before by Maurene Goo: Korean Amerep: Never Have I Ever by Karen McManus: East Asian American side character, South Asian American side characters Like Before by Maurene Goo: Korean American mc, lesbian side character Old Rifts and Snowdrifts by Kayla Whaley: bi disabled mc, Japanese American li Con Nights, Parallel Hearts by Marieke Nijkamp: sapphic mc, nonbinary li(?) Kiss the Boy by Amanda Joy: Black mcs, gay side characters, side m/m Creature Capture by Laura Silverman: Jewish bi mc Shark Bait by Tiffany D. Jackson: Black mc, biracial li A Place to Start by Nina LaCour: lesbian character, bi character, side f/f, nonbinary character When You Bring a Dog to Prom by Anna Meriano: Latina mc, Filipino American li, Filipino American bi side character, nonbinary side character, side f/nb, gay side character What About Your Friends by Brandy Colbert: Black mc Under Our Masks by Julian Winters: Black gay mc, Indian American gay li The Ghost of Goon Creek by Francesca Zappia: Arab American side character
tw: Con Nights, Parallel Hearts by Marieke Nijkamp: child sexual abuse, domestic abuse Shark Bait by Tiffany D. Jackson: infidelity, car crash Missing by Kathleen Glasgow: death of a parent, self harm...more
rep: bi mc, sapphic li, nonbinary side characters, sapphic trans side character tw: gore, immolation, amputation, magic requiring blood/self-harm
a clasrep: bi mc, sapphic li, nonbinary side characters, sapphic trans side character tw: gore, immolation, amputation, magic requiring blood/self-harm
a classic case of "it's not the book, it's me", sadly...more
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