'Help'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I'd also have to point out that teenage boys (and, for that matter, college boys) don't always react or behave or respond like you think they will.
And that teenaged boys living in a totalitarian country, required to participate in a kill or be killed competition, and being starved to death are even harder to pigeonhole.
Now into the discussion a couple days later, his point has been refined to "Peeta doesn't behave like a real teenage boy.".
None of the characters behave like "real" teenagers, if the touchstone is late-20th- and early-21st-century American teenagers.
Actually, i know one teenage boy that acts like Peeta
Gale is harder I don't know that many teenage boys that are that competent, but then they don't have to be .
I still haven't read the third book.
Yeah, the modern teenager is a product of 20th century American prosperity, which allowed there to be a middle ground between child and adult.
Sometimes extending into middle age ....
See for example: all Judd Apatow movies.
I was surprised when Emmett started his first umpiring job, how competent he was and how seriously he took it.
I think we've also seen with CJ that a lot of kids thrive with responsibility.
Well, I've caught up on Skulduggery Pleasant and I'm a little wrung out. How much did I love Valkyrie's breakup with Caelan? A whole lot.
I'm with you, Steph, I don't like that Tanith has a Remnant in her but I do enjoy Remnant!Tanith and Billy Ray, who is a fun villain in his own right.
When I moved away from home my mom was astounded that I handled things like cleaning, laundry, and cooking (for the most part) just fine. It wasn't that I was incapable of doing any of that stuff before, I just needed to go from a situation where I wasn't the resident with the best work ethic/least tolerance for mess to one where I was.
I'm with you, Steph, I don't like that
I love Billy-Ray Sanguine. I keep picturing him as a younger Brad Pitt. And I cannot get over Remnant!Tanith, GOD DAMN.
So, have you read all the way through Death Bringer?
Yup. So many revelations and so much stuff still to happen! i have been on pins and needles about the reflection for several books, I just know something is building there.
And put in a pre-order for End of the World though I feel VERY silly spending so much more for shipping than for the book.