My first impulse is to scramble from the tree, but I’m belted in. Yet another reason why you shouldn’t sleep in trees. The world has transformed to flame and smoke. Burning branches crack from trees and fall in showers of sparks at my feet. You’re already dead.  No, really, at the point where there are…

Thank goodness, I had the foresight to belt myself in. I’ve rolled sideways off the fork and I’m facing the ground, held in place by the belt Our hero!  She fell out of the tree and we don’t even know when.  Was she “so shocked” that she couldn’t stay seated?  Because if that’s the case,…

Step off before the minute is up, and land mines blow your legs off. They have force fields around the roof to prevent suicides, but land mines right here?  Come on.  It could be that the mines are fairly weak and non-fatal, so if you step off then your punishment will be to lie there…

So, this is the first chapter of a new section: The Games.  But it’s a direct continuation of the last chapter.  We aren’t at the games yet.  We haven’t even changed to a new scene.  That the book wants the symmetry of equal sections is obvious enough, but that doesn’t mean it should achieve it…

Betrayal. That’s the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would have had to been trust first. There’s also the fact that she’s whinged repeatedly about how she hates the buddy-buddy routine and wishes Peeta would treat her like she treats him.  In fact, she’s been very consistent and…