by Veronica Roth Unfortunately I watched the movie before reading this book, which probably influenced my opinion about it. But even if I liked the movie better, I found the book to be very good. I read it in just a few hours and I didn’t want to stop. Read the first and the second in the series on one day. I find (compared to the movie) that the time line and the order that things happen to be slightly confusing, but I don’t want to that to affect my rating since I am sure I wouldn’t have reacted to it had I not seen the movie. The writing is good and I find it easy to read and it just enough amount descriptions to make me feel the surroundings etc. I couldn’t stop reading and I always felt like I needed to know what happened so I had to keep going. I feel like there may be a bit too many characters present in the book and it can at times get confusing who’s who and all that, but overall I think Veronica Roth did a great job with this book. Somehow though, I failed to connect with Tris….
by Suzanne Collins This book has a unique story with lots of action and suspense and you’re hooked from the start and you don’t get a chance to put the book down. The writing is simple yet descriptive and makes the reader see this strange world from Katniss’ eyes. And in the beginning I like Katniss a lot. She’s a strong young woman who stands up for herself and protests against this strange government. But the longer the story progresses, I started feeling that she turned into nothing but a whining and being completely annoying girl, still I can get how that can happen to someone being put into her situation (but I still don’t like the change and I don’t really see why it’s there). Most of the characters felt real to me and the relationships were clear. Although I never ever got that Peeta plus Katniss feeling. There was just nothing there for me and Peeta felt false and manipulative and Katniss was immensely dense and stupid. Everyone in the book kept saying how great Peeta was and that Katniss should be lucky to have a guy like him etc, but I never saw it. What made him…
