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exceeded expectations…

Revisado: 04-19-25

this story fits so snuggly into the previous novels - no larry hangman dream needed, no cognitive dissonance required. I assume the author created the back story before writing the original trilogy because, it would be very hard to do especially this book so perfectly…but t never feels like it’s a filler. we know haymitch will win - but the focus during the games is never solely about winning, as a result these hunger games were a fascinating story because it was more about loss than victory.

not sure where another book would fit - but I would read it. and if this truly closes out the panem story, then it is as quality an ending as I have seen. here’s hoping there might be one or two more puzzle pieces that got knocked under the sofa.

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I almost didn’t get through angie’s narrative

Revisado: 03-29-25

angie is a cockroach..I realize heroes need villains but honestly the anti storyline is unnecessary because will always has the person he is chasing. it’s interesting because I found this series beca of the TV series. after reading triptych and then books 2-4 I cannot watch the TV show anymore…Why? because ormewood is a “daphne” like character (scooby doo) than a serial killer and angie is presented as a victim rather than a sociopath with a personality disorder. yes her ACES score would be through the roof, but she may singularly be the most selfish, psycho version of herself. I find it hard to believe they couldn’t make a case against her - not least of which obstructing justice and tampering with a crime scene - but the author took it easy on her. please let her just disappear!

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it was free…

Revisado: 02-28-25

and I finished…but just barely. the pacing goes from slow and cumbersome to just skipping whole sequences. it’s like the editor had 2 minutes to cut the book down by 2 hours. I felt every bump and pothole in the north korean road… and then never felt. dip of water while crossing the entire atlantic

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should be required reading…

Revisado: 02-14-25

I consider myself to be pretty informed. having become intensely curious about politics after listening to the gulf war 1 on a clock radio in my office at my first job out of college. I never turned the radio off or stopped reading since. I realize that politics has become something that would be wholly unrecognizable to many great names that have served in one form of government or another. I have read enough history to not be naive and think politics is a binary, right left, good bad, pro or anti america. this book is absolutely enlightening. I save countless bookmarks and have bought additional copies to send to my sons.

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it just keeps going…

Revisado: 02-07-25

I was in my freshman year at Georgia Tech when this happened, and I remember much of the confusion and the manipulation of facts, but I honestly had no idea of the impact of chernobyl even today. I see so many similarities to the soviet system and today’s government funded non profit agencies. and the kill the messenger and shred the message as we become increasingly a bureaucratic state. the epilogue in many ways as frightening as the early chapters. moreover, I look at the casualties in the present ukrainian conflict and you have to feel for those that are merely pawns in the larger geopolitical schema…

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formulaic david vs goliath…but

Revisado: 01-27-25

will worth the entertainment. kind of wish there was a sequel - with his wife coming around nick and delia’s (so?) computer skills amid the DC corruption is literally going to grow possible plots like miracle grow on kudzu.

again - great entertainment and damron was as perfect as I expect.

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even my love of jay snyder is eclipsed by the last 5 minutes

Revisado: 01-22-25

wow, the book is great. But nothing can prepare for the big reveal. jay snyder is great as always…but the action is worthy of a grey man story. I won’t say more but know my brevity is so that you will have exactly the same experience I just had.

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it took me way to long to figure out the title

Revisado: 01-02-25

the original narrator would have probably made this story better, and while the story was not bad - it wasn’t up to my expectations. with audio books I think that is much more complicated to figure out where it fell. I also came to the conclusion that myron is floundering in the authors mind. the engagement, his brother, dad & mom, lots of moving pieces that I muddied the plot rather than improving it. is this myron’s midlife crisis?

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speechless

Revisado: 12-06-24

if this was my first exposure to the genre, i’m not sure what my expectations would be…since it is far from my first, i’m left with implausibly, imperfect situations that even more unlikely always work out. there’s cliche and then there’s wishful thinking and then there is this book. I would almost consider that it was authored as a parody- think weird al yankovic…

if I could return I would, but I can’t finish it either!

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a good (not great) analysis of liberty

Revisado: 10-21-24

this book is most like not going to make anyone but author happy after you buy the book. we are all welcome to our opinions, ultimately the only way you think is if you are challenged- after all anything else would be like weight lifting with air.
I appreciate his perspective and am somewhat agree more than I disagree with the author until we got to his comments about gore’s reaction in 2000 being the model. having had the unique perspective of having a close relative on gores legal team preparing for the us appeals and supreme court - gore did not take the election in even a “marquis of queensberry” effort. so many look backs at that election have revealed the truth - our country suffered as a result. I wouldn’t give this book to anyone who hadn’t read many books on this subject.

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