Mockingjay

Wow. That is one miserable story.
I mean, as an ending to that story, it fits, but wow, that is one miserable story.
I know I said I wanted to know what happens next and how it ends, but as it turns out, that was not quite what I wanted. I think I wanted to know how they'd fix it. And the only hope in that book is in the last three pages, which cover considerable time in not much detail and don't leave much time for the reader to decompress or have another reaction. So it's basically a whole lot of going through hell.
... I think that time I decided not to read them because they sounded epic miserable was in fact the better decision.

The whole set remind me of one of the things I read about female action heroes for my dissertation:

“While traditional heroic texts foreground the establishment of control over others […] female centered texts primarily articulate concerns/tensions with autonomy, issues over gaining and maintaining control over the self. In other words, female control is about establishing the independence and self-determination with which heroes begin.” [Heinecken, The warrior women of television, 2003, p152]

There's a whole lot of large scale consequences, but the main struggle all through was between going along with the script for survival and taking control of herself. Not even her own life, she spent most of the time expecting to be dead (or actively planning to), just trying to find out what her own feelings and own decisions would be.

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So that ending very much fit that story, completely fair and in keeping, and... it's leaving me wanting fanfic instead. Boo.

Actually, probably not even fanfic. Just being :-( about it.
:-(




I shall go back to starship captain stories with more choices in them.