Can we talk about how spectacular the Hunger Games trilogy is and how no other book or (dystopian) youth saga has surpassed it or will ever surpass it?
I always considered this trilogy to be very ahead of its time. It touched on themes with quite strong political overtones for books aimed at teenagers. It was not only about having a "rebellious" protagonist who rebels against the system, and who is also pretty and has superficial motivations for being against "the bad guys", as in many dystopian books that wanted to have their version of The Games of the Hunger. Katniss was a protagonist made in a very realistic and unconventional way, nothing compared to the female characters that other authors tried to replicate. Our girl on fire was unfriendly, cold, and unsociable (not because she seemed "cool" and "interesting" like in other books), because her environment and reality were quite depressing and she had to constantly be in survival mode. That's consistency for me. In The Hunger Games there was no sugarcoating; It was pure rawness of a world created not far from the reality in which we live.
The almost non-existent romantic scenes that there were are another point in the books' favor. Because? They were living in a dictatorship, where the only and most important thing was to keep you and your loved ones alive, rather than writing a sweet love story in the background, the truth is, it would be very out of place. Suzanne Collins was a genius and maintained the message she wanted to give with her story until the end. Tqm, Suzanne Collins ❤️thank you so much and for creating such a sad but hopeful, but depressing, and nostalgic story; all at the same time haha🥹
I always considered this trilogy to be very ahead of its time. It touched on themes with quite strong political overtones for books aimed at teenagers. It was not only about having a "rebellious" protagonist who rebels against the system, and who is also pretty and has superficial motivations for being against "the bad guys", as in many dystopian books that wanted to have their version of The Games of the Hunger. Katniss was a protagonist made in a very realistic and unconventional way, nothing compared to the female characters that other authors tried to replicate. Our girl on fire was unfriendly, cold, and unsociable (not because she seemed "cool" and "interesting" like in other books), because her environment and reality were quite depressing and she had to constantly be in survival mode. That's consistency for me. In The Hunger Games there was no sugarcoating; It was pure rawness of a world created not far from the reality in which we live.
The almost non-existent romantic scenes that there were are another point in the books' favor. Because? They were living in a dictatorship, where the only and most important thing was to keep you and your loved ones alive, rather than writing a sweet love story in the background, the truth is, it would be very out of place. Suzanne Collins was a genius and maintained the message she wanted to give with her story until the end. Tqm, Suzanne Collins ❤️thank you so much and for creating such a sad but hopeful, but depressing, and nostalgic story; all at the same time haha🥹