35 and 36. Catching Fire and Mockingjay, both by Suzanne Collins. Here is what I think happened after Suzanne Collins finished writing The Hunger Games. I think she sat down at a table and said, “Okay, now I think I will write about 400 more pages of stuff pretty similar to what I just wrote, and then spend the next 400 after that defacating over everything.”
On the plus side, “The Hanging Tree” is an excellent poem. On the downside, it and all symbols used in this book (like President Snow’s use of poison to kill his enemies) are explained IN THE BOOK. Oh, and major spoiler here, but almost everybody and their sister, including Primrose Everdeen, dies. And Katniss turns fairly evil, voting in favor of one final hunger games in which the Capitol’s children will be forced to die. So yeah. Eff this book.
