Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games Trilogy) by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games Trilogy) by Suzanne Collins

They’re good, these books.

I should have waited until April and May, when I could “borrow” them for free from the Amazon Lending Library. But sometimes you just need to know how the story turns out.

The story has great rhythm, never dilly-dallying with useless preamble. The plot flows smoothly from point to point, maintaining tension, plausibility and unpredictability.

Imagine my surprise when I found out this was a Young Adult series. I fell for this with Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men, reading along thinking myself an Old Adult.

It’s Harry Potter that’s done this… blurred the line between Old Adult and Young Adult. Now I’m reading Slam and Hat Full of Sky and not even realizing that my development has been arrested. Or something.

Or maybe it’s just time that Young Adults got something worth reading. Something Adult, but only just.

And now I’m just looking to fill that end-of-a-good-series inner void with something decent. I’m not up to switching gears suddenly back to Dickens. Will the Game of Thrones series suffice? For some reason I’m associating the two.

We’ll see.