I read all three. Good read. I have to say that while written for teenage girls in the Twilight tradition, the books are very violent. As in...”I drew my bow and shot an arrow through his heart” . Death comes cheap and human life is expendable. I guess that might be part of the message.
On the other hand the book is totally non-sexual to the extreme. There is never a burning in her loins and while she is naked in a few passages, it’s void of any sexual context. In one strange passage her teenage boyfriend spends the night on a train just “holding” her. Can you say blue balls?
Both points I thought about while reading the books. Very violent for the age and gender target, but part of the story/message. Secondly there was AMPLE opportunity for the author to go down the young adult pre-marital sex route but she never went there. The characters were naked for some scenes, but as mentioned not in a sexual way at all.
I tortured myself trying to read the first Twilight book and couldn’t go on, the first movie made me want to gouge my eyes out for wasting my time.
I gobbled up the Hunger Games trilogy though. Granted while reading it I was thinking in the back of my head “this is written to catch movie royalties, not be a literary masterpiece”
I read all three. Good read. I have to say that while written for teenage girls in the Twilight tradition, the books are very violent. As in...”I drew my bow and shot an arrow through his heart” . Death comes cheap and human life is expendable. I guess that might be part of the message.
On the other hand the book is totally non-sexual to the extreme. There is never a burning in her loins and while she is naked in a few passages, it’s void of any sexual context. In one strange passage her teenage boyfriend spends the night on a train just “holding” her. Can you say blue balls?
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read all three. These are young girl romances with a dystopian setting. Every girl’s dream, two men who love her, and although death is horrificly portrayed, our heroine’s virtue remains unsullied.
Do you think Scholastic should be publishing porno’s or something?