She is not this manic, dream pixie girl. Her character very much shaped, flawed and real. Haymitch is able to oversee and ignore her “flaws” because he’s a 16 year old teenage boy who is madly in love with her, but it is not hard for us readers, to look between those lines and see how fleshed her character really is.

She is seen to act before thinking, making rash decisions which aren’t the best for her wellbeing. She is way too emotional, feels too many feelings and has too many thoughts and she doesn’t know how to articulate them into words because she’s an introvert and she fears her words being lost in translation.

She only reveals her unfiltered, (sometimes) dark thoughts to her loved ones, and often enough she does it by using metaphors so she can still backtrack incase she gets misunderstood because she still feels like her thoughts could be a burden to the people around her.

She is not a “Lucy Gray Rip-Off”.

Lucy Gray was a born performer. She loved to be on stage, she loved performing for her people and knew how to get the crowd on her side, how to keep them entertained.

Lenore Dove doesn’t sing in front of people. It makes her uncomfortable. She’s not a “Born Performer” nor does she know how to control a crowd, at least not in the way Lucy Gray did.

She’s a rebel. She’ll only use her voice when she realizes she absolutely HAS to. She’ll use it when she’s mad, and sad, and in despair.

She’ll go against the rules at any given time, especially when it comes to protecting her loved ones. She doesn’t realize nor care about any consequences at the time, she only acts because she’s in pain and wants to avenge her people.

She’s a sixteen year old girl who dreamt big in a world where dreaming was a luxury and not something many people can afford.

In spite of her dark, burdened thoughts, she had still kept her innocence and was able to dream of a world without the reaping, she had hopes that one day that dream could become a reality, no matter how crazy it sounded to others.

If you truly understood this series you’d realize that it has impeccable story telling, covers important RELEVANT political themes, and doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable topics. Wanting more books from an author who writes very well, articulates what she feels needs to be heard, and has actual substance does not mean we are just chanting “more more more!” For the entertainment. It’s because Suzanne has been able to curate the world of Panem in a way that demands to be heard.

If you think you know the series, then you would know that Capitol citizens do not care for politics nor would they even have the knowledge of it TO care about. They’ve been groomed for years and years via propoganda that the districts are lesser than. They have been slowly losing their education, especially that of politics. Really watering it down to “we are good and they are bad.” Capitol citizens think that whatever snow says, is what’s best for them, because they are not starving, dying, or fighting for their lives. They have no reason to believe anything is wrong since they are not seeing the districts. So, no. Wanting to read about important political themes, crying over what these characters have gone through, and seeing the devastating comparison of panem and current state of America does not make us districts.

Katniss and Peeta's feast in the cave comes with silverware and plates. I always found this odd- it seemed as if it would have inflated the cost frivolously. I figured it had something to do with standards in the captiol, especially with how Effie remarks about table manners on the train.

“This is not how he would’ve handled it”

“She wouldn’t have said that”

“Well I think she didn’t actually love him.”