I did an essay for uni on this (well, the violence in them) and I just want to say: pubbed by the same house. FTW. :) (Can't remember how to link stuff here, but my essay on both of these books/violence is in the comm recently)
I always felt that I see comparisons from Animorphs to Hunger Games but they are more slight than anything. I mean, to me I see Katniss/Rachel Peeta/Tobias, but for me thats more ~obvious. I think that the Capital's hunger for power/control can easily be seen as similar to the Yeerks.
I'm also eager to see how/if Liam (the guy play Gale) can act.He was in Home & Away, aussie soap opera, and a Miley Cyrus movie.
For me, I didn't mind the endings of either 54 or THG trilogy. Both were realistic -- people grief in different ways, people re-adapt, or don't, in different ways and P/K *swoon* (Okay that last bit - just for my own heart). I think that both endings were necessary to show audiences that even in books, things aren't always perfectly tied up. Nothing is wrapped with a ribbon and placed under a Christmas tree. I mean imagine if Rachel had survived? I imagine her life would be a bit like Katniss' with the PSTD. I don't think, tbh, she could ever recover. Katniss was able to but it took years and years and years. I feel like too many children's/YA books show a dark story with a too happy ending. Like this contemp YA I just read where this total b*tch gets forgiven almost immediately by her family/ex boyfriend by just apologising for everything she's ever done
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I always felt that I see comparisons from Animorphs to Hunger Games but they are more slight than anything. I mean, to me I see Katniss/Rachel Peeta/Tobias, but for me thats more ~obvious. I think that the Capital's hunger for power/control can easily be seen as similar to the Yeerks.
I'm also eager to see how/if Liam (the guy play Gale) can act.He was in Home & Away, aussie soap opera, and a Miley Cyrus movie.For me, I didn't mind the endings of either 54 or THG trilogy. Both were realistic -- people grief in different ways, people re-adapt, or don't, in different ways and P/K *swoon* (Okay that last bit - just for my own heart). I think that both endings were necessary to show audiences that even in books, things aren't always perfectly tied up. Nothing is wrapped with a ribbon and placed under a Christmas tree. I mean imagine if Rachel had survived? I imagine her life would be a bit like Katniss' with the PSTD. I don't think, tbh, she could ever recover. Katniss was able to but it took years and years and years. I feel like too many children's/YA books show a dark story with a too happy ending.
Like this contemp YA I just read where this total b*tch gets forgiven almost immediately by her family/ex boyfriend by just apologising for everything she's ever done