After the success of The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins knew exactly what to do. Put out the exact same book with a slightly different prologue. And that idea caught fire.
Katniss Everdeen is a formerly bad ass woman from District 12, the lazily numbered region of Panam, the lazily named country controlled by The Capitol, the lazily named capitol. She’s a former winner of The Hunger Games, a TV game show where kids fight to the death against their will. Surprise! Like all reality shows, there’s an All Star’s episode.
Now Kat is thrown back into The Arena (the lazily named… you get the idea) and she has to once again compete in Kiddy Blood Sport for no reason at all. And without doing anything, she ends up the adorable mascot for The Revolution.
Remember The Hunger Games? It’s that again. And while Suzanne Collins is terrible at writing reasons for kids to battle to the death, she’s great at writing about them battling to the death. So why not do that again?
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I’m curious what you guys thought of the Avox. I know they cut them out of the first movie, and I don’t remember you talking about it in the first book podcast, but it does get a a bit more focus in this book. What are your opinions of it as a punishment? Do you think it was properly executed? Do you think it added to the story at all?You guys are always great. I actually like this book a lot, but you highlighted a lot of the issues I had while reading with the story and Katniss as a narrator. Thank you!
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