Karol

Better than twilight...

The world is probably the better aspect of this book. It remains a guilty pleasure at times (she gets literally carried around a lot, even ppl carry her and run?). The writting is not great but easy enough to follow. A lot of repeating things, and some character decisions in times of crisis that seem farfetched. All in all, the romance (warning it contains a bit of a square) is sweet, the endgame that is. If you want an interesting world, a bit of cheese and sweets and an overall feelgood book, this might be up your alley. Do keep in mind the cheese though :)

Characters, especially peeta, are developed much better than the movies, tatiana meslany does a great job w the narration, katniss is far more complex, the world is expansive. 

The premise of this book was interesting, but i definitely had some issues with the execution.

First, the story. The groundhog day premise can be a pretty good plot device if done right. I liked how it changed along with the concept of time throughout thd book, but sometimes this was waay too convenient to advance the plot. Also, they initially had one goal, but midway decided on a subplot that would suposedly help achieve said first goal, but why? (if you read it you'll get it). So that made the plot sort of aimless.

Second, the characters. The secondary characters are awful people, as they insist on showing you, and again, but why? We know too little about what actually drives them, we know they fo awful things, nothing more really. We're suposed to believe they're the perfect circle of friends, but really, they never show to care for one another in any profound way, nor am i even sure they knew anything of each other save from superficial traits. And the MC... She's not a terrible person, or so they keep telling you, and yet, annoying, insecure, cryptic, the worlds biggest pushover, this is who we follow through a neverending ride. So, yea, fun.

Then finally, the ending. Thrillers live and die for their twists and endings, and the actual ending is good enough. And then it goes on, in a really long epilogue. By then, they lost me. But i guess the ending wasn't the worst.

So overall, it was an interesting read, better characters and a clearer goal would have elevated my enjoyment. It was a quick read.

Uncomfortable read.

Instalove to obsessive degrees, a completely unreasonable main character. An unlikeable fmc, a mistery that i couldn't find myself caring about. An ending that worked.