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[SomebodySaveMe]

I finished the trilogy today. I now feel a bit flat and meh at the ending!
It all seems a bit lazy to me.

They didn't, but she voted for it. If she'd been prevented from killing Coin or missed with her shot, she was condemning another generation of children to that horror.

Thanks for the explanation of why she voted to continue though, that makes sense (although I still think it was completely out of character and an odd decision even with that motivation).

Basically Eurochick she knew she could vote against, but if she did Coin would dispose of her and then go on to run a Games anyway, or even worse things and be another Snow. So she lied to fool Coin and get her chance to stop her. One of my favourite bits as Peeta totally doesn't get what she is doing (again) but Haymitch does, because they're both so similar and smart.

I guess it was part of her growing up then, because until that point her character was all about making a stand without really considering the consequences. It just seemed so out of character to me (and still does although I can see the reasons why she took the decision).

I loved this series too. I'm glad she didn't end up with Gale. In the earlier books I was really rooting for him, but he was too cold - with the bomb developments and the plan about the mountain etc.

I think that the bomb which killed Prim was a plot device to close off the possibility of her ever being with Gale - like he said, nobody could know whether the Capitol had taken the bomb idea from him, and it would always eat away at her.

I also really liked the way it didn't end all happily-ever-after, and they did have everlasting issues from it. The previous winners all being addicts, or psychos, or insane. The fact people got injured in realistic ways. It brought a nice sense of realism to it, rather than the convenient "And then everything was fine" endings you quite often get in YA fiction, especially dystopian fiction.

I kind of think she should have ended up with some total random who never appears in the books, but then the more I think about it, the more Peeta makes sense. I mean, who else could you be with, when you had a shared history with someone like that?