YA Fiction Series that I quit..

Some YA fiction series gets me bored after reading one one or two of the books.
For an example; Maximum Ride By James Patterson.
I liked the first, and second book, but by the third book, I was starting to grow fed up of it.
I don't like that too much of a 'hero' or 'heroine' characters, you know? And Max was becoming a bit too much like that not to mention a bit highty tighty.
If anyone read this series, they'd probably see what I'm driving at.
Take a simple scene at the end of the fourth book 'The Final Warning'. The 'Global Warming' speech, that a fourteen year old is giving to the world..That's when I quit.

Another YA Fiction Series I quit on the way was:
The Gone Series By Micheal Grant.
I liked the character of Sam Temple that Micheal Grant portrayed.
But the plot, the Drake, Cain and their cronies 'activities' were a bit morbid don't you think? And a bit drawn out?




P.S. Anyway my thirteen year old sister is enjoying both the series very much. What can I say?
F.E.

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

 

The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

I have just completed the Hunger Games Trilogy. Sad to say, but I was kind of disappointed by the final book.

The Hunger games begin with Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of the story, volunteering to take the place of her little sister, Prim, in the cruel Games the Capitol host yearly.  

Each year one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen are picked to participate in the annual Hunger Games, to fight until death on live TV.

And thus begins an  interesting trilogy, of a country based in the future called Panem, a Capitol surrounded by twelve districts, where once stood North America, and is now ruled by an evil President Snow.

Catching Fire - The second book in the Hunger Games Trilogy.

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, are now victors.

Unfortunately, that is not the happy ending. Because if you don't play the game according to President Snow, he'll just have to show you how you have to play, or else...

And so the second book begins, with a whole new challenge awaiting Katniss who finds herself the face of an uprising rebellion.

 Mockingjay - The Final book in the Hunger Games Trilogy.

Katniss Everdeen, against all odds, has survived the Hunger Games twice.

And President Snow is not happy at all.

With a full war on, against all her family, friends and District 12, Katniss is now finally, but not truly by her own will, the Mockingjay.

With everyone in danger, and Peeta unsafe somewhere while being ruthlessly tortured, Katniss is determined kill President Snow herself. 

Anyway, the first book was the best - New, thrilling and full of suspense. I hated the love triangle between Katniss, Gale and Peeta. It seems like these days, most of the young adult fiction authors’ loves writing romance and can’t avoid bringing in this common style. I can list many books that I’ve read recently with this theme, and honestly? I’m fed up of it!

Anyway the turn in character of Katniss Everdeen, her disloyalty and total inconsideration the way she had treated Gale towards the end, was totally selfish not to mention unjust.

Last but not least, I have to admire Suzanne Collins poems.

The two poems that I’ve read in these books were wonderful!

Deep in the Meadow’ and 'The Hanging Tree.

I am going to post them soon.

 F.E.