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  • The Hunger Games: Ch 03

    Prim is not to take any tesserae. They can get by, if they’re careful, on selling Prim’s goat milk and cheese and the small apothecary business my mother now runs for the people in the Seam. *inarticulate rate*  REALLY?  They can get by without the fucking tesserae, and apparently without Katniss’s hunting as well, but…

  • The Hunger Games: Ch 02

    Katniss’s reaction to Prim getting called is really well done.  You know, once the author gets done with a flashback, just in case no one understands the concept of ‘unable to breathe.’  Katniss’s volunteering for her sister is a nice way to introduce things, and I do like it better than having her be chosen…

  • The Hunger Games: Ch 01

    This review was originally written and posted in September 2012. Yes, that’s right, the Hunger Games.  I’ve had a few requests for this one ever since I mentioned that I didn’t like the books.  And, well, frankly, I have been wanting to take a stab at them.  I know THG has a lot of fans,…

  • City of Glass

    This one is bad enough that I ran out of stickies twice.  My library book is a rainbow of fail. We open on Clary getting ready to go to Idris.  Jace is not happy that she’s going, though his reasons keep shifting.  He tells Clary that it’s because Valentine will be shifting his focus there…

  • City of Ashes

    To get through bad books without stopping to rant at someone, I use sticky notes.  As I go through, I put stickies on every line that makes me want to rage.  So when I sat down to read City of Ashes, I opened up a brand new pack of my favorite stickies and got to…

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