I finished it a few days ago - the weakest book in the series for me. What drove the first two books for me was the Hunger Games themselves - without them, there seemed to be something missing. The whole Katniss as a reluctant rebel leader deal felt a little forced to me, and the attempts to create tension by the ubiquitous love-triangle didn't really work either, mostly because Gale and Peeta sounded the same.
And I really think fantasy writers should stop doing flash-forward epilogues ... let us imagine for ourselves how things turned out.
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I think we should reinstate wonder, and banish expectations.
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