Lucas

A book about grasping with the limited options you were presented in life and about seeing and exploring the infinite possibilities beyond it. A true queer novel if there ever is one.

A+ Plot. Missed this about the Hunger Games.

Also I wondered why the Hunger Games is considered YA when it is so dark!! with all the deaths, head-hacking, children-hanging that are so present in the series

Spoiler review:
I was initially not too thrilled about reading a book from Snow's perspective, considering him being the cruel villain in the series. But when I started reading it I was surprised to read a sympathetic account of a kid growing up in a war zone. I kept wondering in the back of my mind how this kid could grow up to become Snow, but then it all makes sense. The constant brainwashing, dehumanization, us vs them, and the wars themselves. A book written from the Capitol point of view was a good addition to the series. I don't know if I could have finished the novel not knowing he got served his justice in the end, and the stupid fucking establishment that he represents.

I believe the same thing as Lucy Gray did, we're born to be good natured, sympathetic to our own kind. But I'm no fool to be blinded by the acts of cruelty that we might commit, heck Lucy Gray was the Hunger Games victor, in the game where the last one surviving is the one winning. But she chose to walk on the right side of that line. She might not be able to choose her circumstances, but she choose how she can act. And I hope I'll always remember that. Firm, but kind.

Best male lead, with good sense and great charm.

Funny and mentally unstable heroine. Love her.

very cute

“...what he wanted to capture with his project was the feeling of time, of having been a part of something that stretched so far back, was so impossibly large, that it was easy to forget that she, and he, and everyone else, existed in it—not apart from it, but inside of it.”

i wonder what unbroken chain of lives and events that lead to my existence now. what are their hopes and longings, pains and toils that once seem monumental then, only to be lost in the distant land that is the past. A distant land where each of us has sailed forth from.

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It's midnight now and my mind is whirling with thoughts of my past, present, and future...