I just noticed that I rated this 4 stars when I read it many years ago. this, as a reminder, was when I sped read it to give myself a reason to go to the cinema with a straight girl I was in love with to watch the sequel and connect with her over how much I pretended to love the male love interest. then I tried to actually read it afterwards which apparently took 2 months but its okay guys, 2014 me says THIS IS A GREAT BOOK.

In today's thoughts, katniss is a terribly written female character and it doesn't fill me with the greatest confidence that collins pretty much plagarised the plot, characters, and order of events without giving the source material any credit and denying openly that she never even heard of it. I appreciate modernisations/westernised adaptations/retellings when writers tell you the work is as such but like is she literally this dumb.

would be 1* for originality but it works as a typical shitty YA novel so i'm just going with the 2 for now, hope everyone loved this review and the little snippet of my love life which was probably more interesting than the entire series romance plot (not that I ever finished it). she is still straight but is on a rowing team now so I'll let you know if she ever changes her mind.