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See but they showed very little of her PTSD. They were just like "oh here sister died and she's sad, but now here's the love story" and it just felt unrealistic to me. I bet I'd also take notice if I met the love of my life in that situation, but wouldn't you think the situation at hand would be more important and that ANY romance would only really come after? Instead with her it was just "Gale" this and "Peeta" that. In the first book it was "Things are bright and pretty" and "My dress is gorgeous" and I just kinda got burned out on it. Its a great story but some of the prose and voice just didn't land with me. I'm super picky sadly. |
I'm getting the box set for Christmas, so I'll give this more thought when I re-read. Just judging by my memory, I thought the trauma and romance were handled well. I don't recall the 'romance' part of it, being as high school drama-esque as you seem to think it was. I think it made sense that Katniss would go to Peeta for comfort. For much of the trilogy, though not at the beginning, he was one of the few she could trust. He also knew what she was going through, because he had been in the Hunger Games too. And I really don't remember a love triangle. I only found out about the whole Team Peeta/Team Gale thing after I'd read them and it surprised me. Gale was the one she assumed she would end up with, if she ended up with anyone at all, but after that it was all Peeta because the Games had changed her and by the time she saw Gale again in Mockingjay, it was pretty clear that things wouldn't work out between them. Gale was also absent for much of the trilogy. I imagine it's just fangirls blowing things out of proportion.
Oh, and about the 'my dress is so pretty', I remember pretty clearly Katniss being sickened by the whole thing. |
Actually at that point she kind of fell in love with the attention. The problem I had with the trilogy is that it was written to cater to a crowd that needed the violence in context. To me it sounds like it was written by a sixteen year old girl, but not one that has that mentality of having grown up in that. I know I'm the only one that sees this but it really is there. First person perspective took away from it for me.
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