Steph, I'm over half way with Mortal Coil, and OMG I don't think I like where this is going. I can only read 5 or 10 pages a day 'cause it's my lunchtime reading but man, I'm afraid!

Be afraid. I'm still kind of bug-eyed over a thing. I can't wait until you finish it!

Be afraid

Crap! If it goes where I think it's going, then CRAP! And if so, then Derek Landy is hard core!

If it goes where I think it's going, then CRAP!

Where do you think it's going? I will neither confirm nor deny or even hint. In fact, I will just reply with a post consisting of "Huh." I'm just curious.

Well, I finished the Hunger Games trilogy - emotionally wrenching, to say the least.

Question re Beetee - does he like echidnas?

Where do you think it's going

One of two ways remnant in Val = Darquesse or remnant in Val's reflection but I'm not sure how that could happen. Just seems like that's where it's going. And either way, it's not good.

One of two ways

Huh. (Just like I promised!)

Huh.

I tell you it is KILLING me not to be able to sit down and just read. Stupid work and lame home stuff that have to be done...

Okay, here's what happens: Skulduggery joins a convent, Valkyrie goes into business with her Dad, and Ghastly reveals that he's the Masked Dancer at the All-Male Magical Revue.

What? It could happen!

Hahahaha! I can totally see Ghastly in an All-Male Revue!

I gotta finish this over the weekend.

So I just finished Mockingjay. The assassination of Coin did make me go, "Holy fuck!" But I'm with Consuela in wishing we got more of Katniss's rationalization for it. I mean, it's abundantly clear that Coin was just as bad as Snow (just the fact that she would even CONSIDER holding another Hunger Games, Jesus Christ), but it's a goddamn important moment, and I would have liked a few lines about how Katniss felt about it, and not getting to kill Snow. In essence, she sacrificed her chance to kill Snow, her own personal vendetta, to kill Coin, for the good of Panem. Which is kind of cool, really.

Kate, I had the same thoughts about the rest of the world! What about it?? What happened to it?? And, Consuela, I was also wondering about the pods in the Capitol. They just booby-trapped the whole town? That's insane! I could see some of the worldbuilding issues, but I didn't mind them terribly. They didn't take me out of the story or anything.

I'm not sure how I feel about the end. At least it appears that Panem is rebuilding itself nicely? For now? LOOK YOU GUYS IT'S A HAPPY ENDING. I thought it was sort of amusing and interesting that in the first book, I saw the love triangle as the standard bad boy/nice guy thing with Peeta being the bad boy and Gale being the nice guy. But in the end, it appears that I had those backwards.

It has a much better last line than HP7.

I'm going to have to let everything settle before I write a big LJ post about the trilogy, I think. It's hard to figure out my true feelings and/or be objective about the quality of the series because Collins so often defied expectations, rarely taking the easy way out. It wasn't a "safe" narrative at all.

Now I'm going to watch Battle Royale.