ok, so i finally started reading the Hunger Games. It's my usual routine with books that are popular, i hear about how great they are but wait to read them.. well i finally started to read the first one today, and well, i wasn't too sure how they were supposed to be so great. but i just got to part 2... and i must say but one word. CRUEL. the author is magnificently, amazingly, terribly cruel. and i mean that in a complement as far as the writing :). so far, i think this is going to turn out great, and i am SO going to barnes and noble tomorrow after my terrible dentists appointment to buy catchiing fire and mocking jay ASAP.
i must say this though. cruelty is key in most of my favorite writing. like one of my favorite authors Tamora Peirce. i just finnished her book Mastiff, the final of a trio, last night and now after starting the hunger games, i realize how cruelty is a key factor in a lot of my favorite writings. i wont give away what happens in Mastiff, just in case anyone is reading it or considering it, but it is definitely a good series, Terrier, Bloodhound, then Mastiff. AMAZING. while I'm at it i'll also mention the one other series i've read by her so far, the immortals, including Wild Magic, Wolf Speaker, Emporer Mage, and the Realms of the Gods. that series i read in middle school, and was hooked from the start and i always keep reading them whenever i get bored and have nothing new. i have yet to read the start of the Tortallan Tales, the books about Alanna, that were the first books she wrote about Tortall (the setting also of the imortals and the Beka Cooper series, but I'm buying the first one when i go to barnes and noble tomorrow :).
WEEEELLL thats the end of my short bookworm briefing :D maybe i'll be back later to finnish my opinion of the Hunger Games when i finnish it. :)