For anyone who hasn’t seen this, it’s EW’s FAILtastic Catching Fire review, and I quote:
Last year, Suzanne Collins published The Hunger Games, the first in a projected young-adult trilogy about Katniss Everdeen, a heroic adolescent girl who crushed on a sexy hunter. In between romantic daydreams, Katniss shot strange beasts, dodged force fields, and battled murderous zombie werewolves — usually while wearing fabulous glitzy outfits.
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The review goes on to compare the series negatively to Twilight, wishing Catching Fire had more “erotic energy.”
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I hope nobody reads this review and decides not to pick up The Hunger Games. To those of you who haven’t yet read it: Katniss is not a girl who indulges in “romantic daydreams” and wears “fabulous glitzy outfits.” She’s a fierce hunter, a survivor; she’s lethal with a bow and arrow. She doesn’t have time for daydreaming because she’s too busy trying to kill her family’s food for the day.
As for the outfits—they’re meant to be a symbol of the excess and glamor of the dystopian world’s capital city, as opposed to everywhere else in that world, where the residents are forced to live in poverty and submission. And Katniss doesn’t wear them in the Games themselves, for glod’s sake. This reviewer either didn’t read the book closely, or she (and/or her editors) didn’t think getting the details right was very important.
I can’t eyeroll hard enough about this review. If you’re looking for a chilling portrait of a dystopian future and a girl who must decide whether or not to defy its despotic rule, read The Hunger Games. If you’re looking for romantic daydreams and erotic energy… read Sarah Dessen, dude. All the romance of Twilight, none of the ick factor.