[LadyDoc]

Until you realize that the author sees both sides as faces of the same coin, both equally evil, you do not realize where she was going with it. All the originality was in the first book.

like "Animal Farm"?

I saw it as a retelling of Theusus and the Monitor, but books two and three stress the damage to children who fight wars: Post traumatic stress syndrome in Katnis and Brainwashing in Peta and the corruption of Dale are three examples of how war can damage the innocent who are caught in the middle of a revolution, no matter how just the war.

One review mocked the fight as being between Stalin and PolPot, and given the dictatorship of district 13 that sounds about right. I presume you read book three about how Katnis solves this...

[Ingtar]

I did read them. The governments were Socialist vs. Communist, not a whiff of Freedom as the first book and part of the second led you to believe.