By the way, there aren't any major spoilers for Mockingjay Part 1 in this blog post. I don't really even need to say that because 1. No one reads this blog and 2. Even if you are reading this, you have probably either seen Mockingjay or read the book.
Anyway, I saw The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 yesterday. I can't say that I enjoyed it, but that's not the point. It was an incredible movie, maybe my favourite Hunger Games movie so far. As always, this review is going to be short because I dislike writing reviews. I will say that Jennifer Lawrence was amazing in this film, as always, and the movie made me cry. I was worried that this movie would not be as good as the first two. Mockingjay was my least favourite book in the trilogy because the middle of the book dragged on a bit. I was really worried when I heard that they were going to be splitting the last book in two. Now that I've seen Mockingjay Part 1, I'm not as worried. It actually works quite well to have it split in two. The pacing felt right to me, but I've heard that some people disagree. I actually felt that the first two movies were too short. So, anyway, I'm excited for the final film. I'm hoping they don't ruin it. I'm not too worried, though.
As for other things, I am now caught up with Elementary. I finished the second series and have watched all episodes of the third series that are out so far. I also finished watching How to Get Away with Murder. THAT ENDING, THOUGH. I still can't get over it.
As for books, I finished reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue. After finishing it, it occurred to me that the Raven Cycle is so underrated. By me. It had never really occurred to me before how much I love it. I knew that I liked it, but I didn't really realize that it's actually one of the best young adult series I have ever read. I realized that it has very few flaws, and in my opinion, no large flaws at all. I often have problems with certain books. It's usually the characters (too boring, too good, too evil) or the plot (too slow, too fast, too normal) or the writing style (too short, too long, too confusing). But there isn't anything that really annoys me about the Raven Cycle. I sincerely apologize to the Raven Cycle and to Maggie Stiefvater for under-appreciating this series. I need to read the Scorpio Races.
I also read Clariel by Garth Nix which as the prequel to the Old Kingdom series, AKA, the best epic fantasy series ever. I liked the book, up until the very end when I started to love it. I've decided that Garth Nix is good at endings. Sometimes the endings of books leave me feeling unsatisfied *cough* Blood of Olympus *cough*. But Garth Nix never does this (unless of course the book ends on a cliffhanger, like the sixth book in the Keys to the Kingdom series). The ending of Clariel and the ending of Lord Sunday are two of my favourite endings of all time. They both kind of left me sitting there in shock with my mouth open. Maybe I should do a blog post on my favourite book endings.
I've read The Raven Boys months ago and though I did enjoyed it what really bothered me was that the author didn't let the characters' personalities to unfold, she just told us. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteI read the first book a year ago, so I don't remember it that much. It might not be as good as the other books in the series. I think the characters in the Raven Boys are great, but maybe they unfold more in the later books in the series.
DeleteThe thing about the Raven Boys series is that some people really like them and some people really don't. The series has a writing style that I personally really like, but many people do not like it.
When I said that the series had "no large flaws" I meant that there was nothing about it that really bothered me personally. Other people might completely disagree.
I don't really remember it either, so this might not be entirely correct but I think it was like: ,,Gansey, is this and this. He has a deep, pshychologically complex personality which includes: this, this and this." He was awesome, but we didn't get to know it through his deeds or statements, Stiefvater simply wrote the details.
DeleteYeah, that's true. That doesn't really bother me. Some of the characters (Blue and Adam mostly) are the kind of people who like to define other people. The tend to think a lot about what other people's personalities are like. I can understand why some people would dislike that, though.
DeleteHonestly, I didn't remember it was from the characters' point of wiev, but it makes more sense. Now I am thinking about reading the sequels.
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ReplyDeleteSo just saying that I do in fact read your blog and I really enjoy it! I really like Percy Jackson (My Absolute Favorite!!!-I hate the movies), Harry Potter, Divergent (though I think that got worse as it went along), The Hunger Games, and Perks of Being a Wallflower.
I totally agree that Mockingjay was my least favorite book but I love the movie. I am glad that they set it up the way they did.
Also also also-I love the Book Thief! We had to read it for school and I thought I would hate it but I absolutely loved it and I'm so glad I read it.
So yeah, please keep blogging, I really like reading your blog!!
(Also I may have just published this twice, not sure if it went through the last time-sorry)
Thank you.
DeleteI didn't think I would like the Book Thief either, since I usually hate historical fiction, but it's become one of my favourite books.
Yeah, and I really like the characters and their development over the course of the book.
DeleteAlso, you may have written a post on this (I think you did) but what did you think of Cinder? I liked it, but the ending wasn't exactly what I had hoped for.
I enjoyed Cinder. It's not one of my absolute favourite books or anything, but I liked it. I like the second and third books in the series better, and I'm actually really excited to read the prequel when it comes out because I enjoy reading books told from the perspective of an antagonist.
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