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The Hunger Games - Book 1 - The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) - 414 pages
Send children into an arena to kill each other for a TV reality show - and to demonstrate political power.
I have no real words for this, just .. it's one hell of a page-turner
10/10
The Hunger Games - Book 2 - Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins) - 431 pages
I admit the book starts out slow as the whole political stuff isn't really the strong suit of the series. But once it becomes clear that there will be a return into the arena the stories picks up and the book becomes a page turner again.
10/10
The Hunger Games - Book 3 - Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins) - 430 pages
As already said, the political parts are the weak point of the series, and unfortunately the final book is all about the politics. Aside from that the story falls short in a couple of other things as well.
I'm also pretty tired of books where the - usually female - main character falls unconscious just before the big show down, and wakes up to have someone else explain to them how the world got saved off page.
And then the final four or so chapters ... they were really bad because a) the resolution of the love triangle was handled with a very bad deus-ex-machina solution, and b) the characters developed in an illogical way that made them unrecognisable.
7/10
You know when the men are gone (Siobhan Fallon) - (audio) 5 hours 51 minutes
At first it looks like a original view of the life in the military, but as the book progresses, I just failed to feel for those wives waiting for their men to return. What did they expect when they got married to a soldier?
Another annoying part was, that the deployed "heroes" were always male, and the waiting spouse who holds their life at pause to worry and raise the children are always women.
The only female soldier mentioned in the book is an evil, blonde, home-wrecking bitch who may or may not had an affair with a husband, while his good wife was waiting at home, baking cookies and handing out yellow ribbons.
4/10
2011:
Books: 045
Cover to back: 040
Not read to end: 5
Non fiction: 016
Audio Books: 12
Rereads: 0
Pages: 7 836 pages
Audio time: 59 hours 52 minutes
Send children into an arena to kill each other for a TV reality show - and to demonstrate political power.
I have no real words for this, just .. it's one hell of a page-turner
10/10
The Hunger Games - Book 2 - Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins) - 431 pages
I admit the book starts out slow as the whole political stuff isn't really the strong suit of the series. But once it becomes clear that there will be a return into the arena the stories picks up and the book becomes a page turner again.
10/10
The Hunger Games - Book 3 - Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins) - 430 pages
As already said, the political parts are the weak point of the series, and unfortunately the final book is all about the politics. Aside from that the story falls short in a couple of other things as well.
I'm also pretty tired of books where the - usually female - main character falls unconscious just before the big show down, and wakes up to have someone else explain to them how the world got saved off page.
And then the final four or so chapters ... they were really bad because a) the resolution of the love triangle was handled with a very bad deus-ex-machina solution, and b) the characters developed in an illogical way that made them unrecognisable.
7/10
You know when the men are gone (Siobhan Fallon) - (audio) 5 hours 51 minutes
At first it looks like a original view of the life in the military, but as the book progresses, I just failed to feel for those wives waiting for their men to return. What did they expect when they got married to a soldier?
Another annoying part was, that the deployed "heroes" were always male, and the waiting spouse who holds their life at pause to worry and raise the children are always women.
The only female soldier mentioned in the book is an evil, blonde, home-wrecking bitch who may or may not had an affair with a husband, while his good wife was waiting at home, baking cookies and handing out yellow ribbons.
4/10
2011:
Books: 045
Cover to back: 040
Not read to end: 5
Non fiction: 016
Audio Books: 12
Rereads: 0
Pages: 7 836 pages
Audio time: 59 hours 52 minutes