Jennifer W. (GeniusJen) reviewed The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy on + 5322 more book reviews
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I loved THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy Those books have stayed with me, and I think about their meaning in my life and in society. I like it when a book not only entertains me but is so well-written that I have to keep looking to find hidden meaning.
When I saw this book with essays written by different YA authors on various aspects of THE HUNGER GAMES, I had to read it.
There are essays on how the fashion influenced the rebellion, the reason why Katniss chose Peeta, and how reality shows affect the society of today and led up to the Hunger Games of Panem. There are funny pieces and serious works that really make you think.
I really enjoyed the essay by Blythe Woolston about the mental health of the tributes and how that explains many of the problems of their society. I also liked the one on the politics of MOCKINGJAY and the revolution.
If you want to take THE HUNGER GAMES to the next level, then you may find these essays enlightening.
I loved THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy Those books have stayed with me, and I think about their meaning in my life and in society. I like it when a book not only entertains me but is so well-written that I have to keep looking to find hidden meaning.
When I saw this book with essays written by different YA authors on various aspects of THE HUNGER GAMES, I had to read it.
There are essays on how the fashion influenced the rebellion, the reason why Katniss chose Peeta, and how reality shows affect the society of today and led up to the Hunger Games of Panem. There are funny pieces and serious works that really make you think.
I really enjoyed the essay by Blythe Woolston about the mental health of the tributes and how that explains many of the problems of their society. I also liked the one on the politics of MOCKINGJAY and the revolution.
If you want to take THE HUNGER GAMES to the next level, then you may find these essays enlightening.
Nicole B. (noisechick) reviewed The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy on + 95 more book reviews
I was really disappointed in this book. Admittedly, I'm an adult reading this, but I'm a wanna-be YA librarian, so I was expecting something quality out of these writers.
It's more like they all kinda fired off a blog-post, didn't even edit it, and sent it off for submission. The essays meander, and don't have coherent points. I sure as heck wouldn't submit any of these as critical essays to a teacher! I guess I was expecting scholarly work, because that's what I've read before about Buffy, Harry Potter, and heck, even fanfiction... in essay collections like this.
If you don't mind you're authors babbling like 10th grade girls who forget what their assignment was halfway through the piece... by all means, read it. But don't expect any insights, or bits you missed to be analyzed.
I really expected better out of some of these authors, given their fiction. But this has 'rush to press to capitalize on a hot book' written all over it.
It's more like they all kinda fired off a blog-post, didn't even edit it, and sent it off for submission. The essays meander, and don't have coherent points. I sure as heck wouldn't submit any of these as critical essays to a teacher! I guess I was expecting scholarly work, because that's what I've read before about Buffy, Harry Potter, and heck, even fanfiction... in essay collections like this.
If you don't mind you're authors babbling like 10th grade girls who forget what their assignment was halfway through the piece... by all means, read it. But don't expect any insights, or bits you missed to be analyzed.
I really expected better out of some of these authors, given their fiction. But this has 'rush to press to capitalize on a hot book' written all over it.
