Okay, so I decided to do something. I’m going to explain to you something
about the trilogy I’ve
read recently. I know many of you know „The Hunger Games“ since it’ve become a huge phenomenon
of this era but anyway, there is something I, myself!, like to share with you.
When I learnt about this trilogy I simply refused
everything connected with it, since I hate everything mainstream (I guess
I never use these words anymore, since I AM into mainstream as I got to know myself, highlighting stuff
just as Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and the list could go on and on). But I read
or saw, that there is this plot which I couldn’t really get, unimaginable world with
its rules and twisted turns I never heard of. That there is this love
triangle ( I was one hundred percent sure it was one of the cliché ones). But,
life’s short. So I gave
it a shot.
And here I am, trying really hard to catch your
attention and make you buy those precious books because they are something of
an art. I think the author is a real genius to create something
like this, something I never expected to read in my lifetime. She made her
books look flawless because I think there is nothing you could doubt or
question, it’s
bulletproof. A mixture of tense, nail-biting fear, extreme things and
love. A breathtaking background, so real and so painful I felt some
parts of my body aching when I was reading some of the „hard“ stuff. The
love triangle wasn’t
exactly this monotone thing, it wasn’t that heart-wrenching either, because it was never meant to be the centre
motive of the books, only the consequence. It was about the strenght, the way
you can or cannot handle things no mater how hard they seem, the love in the
family, towards the friends, being moral, respectful, pure and innocent but
whenever the situation requires do the opposite without noone questioning it.
Then, it has next to no this „happy happy ending“, only a happy
ending, or a half-happy ending which was very appealing to me, though it
made me sad, but in general it’s more powerful than the „and they lived happily
ever after“ stuff.
There was one quote that I kept reading again and
again; the reason why the main character chose the boy with whom she wanted to stay.
„That what I need
to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage
and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is a dandelion
in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The
promise that life can go on, no mater how bad our losses. That it can be good
again. And only Peeta can give me that.“
Many of the characters are hard nuts, because first, you
maybe hate them, but then they show some other side of them, that is for
example genuinely good so you keep loving them and then some of them die. And
then the crying begins. For me, it was Finnick (those who read it, know who and
what I mean). Then you get angry if someone hurts your favourites. I could
kill all of those bad guys for causing such a harm.
I hate the endings of the books, whatever the end is
though, because my head fulls with these questions, „what now?“, „what’s with them now?“, „how did
they cope?“ „she could not end it right here!!“ – reffering to Suzanne Collins.
I have this little magnetic bookmark with a written
quote on it, saying „A good book never ends“. How true, right? Because after
the last page of the book you realize the best / worst moments will live in you
for far more than you even could imagine. I’m thinking, living and breathing „The Hunger Games“ since yesterday
when I finished reading the last book, since the last page was turned. And
I know it gave me very much and I’m grateful for that.
PS: Give it a shot and buy it, you would NOT regret it
at all. Believe me! And don’t
forget about the movie! Simply awesome ;)
