#skin jacker trilogy

[rileysidely]

I think there’d be a lot of balloons in everlost, kinda like how the fortune cookies are, but when they’re popped rather than broken. But because they start floating away, untethered, as soon as they appear almost no one get to see them.

#everlost #skin jacker trilogy #just kinda thinking out load #it’s been quite a while since I read the skinjacker books #I should reread them soon

[ghtlovesthg]

Random thoughts, reactions, observations & things that caught my eye, THG: Ch 13-16

Disclaimer: After many rereads of these books, and deep-dives into readers’ brilliant posts about the trilogy, it is completely possible I’m rehashing something that has already been notably and skillfully discussed by someone else. It is not intentional. Forgive my floundering memory.

In the context of her future, nothing has me wincing in regret and sympathy for Katniss like these two lines:

“I hate burns, have always hated them, even a small one gotten from pulling a pan of bread from the oven. It’s the worst kind of pain to me”

and

“I’ve had enough fire for a lifetime.”

I thought it was interesting that the miner’s injury described in Ch 13, which Katniss couldn’t bear to face, is so strikingly similar to Peeta’s impending wound from Cato, which she also struggles with, but examines, cleans, and bandages frequently. The miner’s wound was charred, while Peeta’s suppurates, but they are both on the thigh, and both down to the bone. 

Later, Katniss herself makes a comparison between her reaction to the miner and to Peeta, and of course this serves to show how her behavior changes when she cares about the injured party, and underscore that Peeta already matters to her at this point. Then, her reaction in the hovercraft to his second leg injury illustrates how much more he has come to mean to her during the Games. But the fact that the miner’s wound, our baseline for Katniss’s reactions, is in many ways identical to Peeta’s, makes it feel like Collins is trying to underline this parallel with a big red sharpie.

“And there’s another thing, these wasps will hunt down anyone who disturbs their nest and attempt to kill them. That’s where the tracker part of the name comes from.”

I don’t really feel like this aspect of tracker jackers is carried through in the book. Yes, the swarm follows the Careers to the lake, but my understanding is that any swarm of bees would pursue an attacker once the hive is disturbed. The tracker jackers never really continue to track down or hunt the ones they perceive as disrupting their hive - Cato, Clove, Marvel, and Peeta. They just...disperse after being thwarted by the lake.

(Unless, you take a long view - Cato, Clove, and Marvel are killed fairly shortly afterward, which leaves Peeta as the sole survivor of the group that the tracker jackers honed in on. So if you look at his future hijacking as the tracker jackers metaphorically catching up with him, after all that time, that is super creepy. Gives me the shivers.)

“Trees transform to blood and splash down over my boots” - this aspect of Katniss’s hallucination reminds me of the blood rain wedge in the jungle of the Quell arena.

I like that Katniss miraculously avoids detection in the days following the tracker jacker incident as she recuperates in a shallow depression by a honeysuckle bush. In Mockingjay, we are told that Katniss had a special hiding spot in the Meadow beneath a honeysuckle bush, that she ran to when upset. From a very cursory google search, it looks like honeysuckle has many meanings related to love, but in Scotland it is thought that growing honeysuckle can protect from evil. Whether or not Collins was referencing that, I think it’s safe to say that honeysuckle represents protection and safety for Katniss.

When Katniss is coming out of her tracker jacker fever, she cleans herself by the stream, and there’s a period where she just lies in the water, letting it wash soot, blood and burned skin away from her. It made me think that at that very moment, Peeta is also lying in a stream elsewhere in the arena, and for a few moments, they are connected in a way, without knowing it.

When talking about the Career’s food stockpile, Katniss says, “Destroying things is much easier than making them.” This immediately made me think of her discussion with Finnick in Mockingjay, where he says, “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” As always, I love all the parallels between the first and last books that Collins works in, and I don’t think this is unintentional.

“But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.”

This sounds like a snippet from a negative review of Twilight. I love it. >:P

“I turn and head back to the stream, feeling somehow worried. About Rue being killed, about Rue not being killed and the two of us being left for last, about leaving Rue alone, about leaving Prim alone back home. No, Prim has my mother and Gale and a baker who has promised she won’t go hungry. Rue has only me.”

I love this. One and a half days into their alliance, Katniss has practically adopted Rue in her mind. She worries for her even beyond Prim, and is far less concerned with the fact that she herself is headed straight for the Careers’ base camp, than she is with the fact that Rue has been left alone. Now if that’s not incredibly maternal, I don’t know what is.

And finally,

“For some reason, our discussion from that last morning comes back to me. “We could do it, you know.” “What?” “Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.” And suddenly, I’m not thinking of Gale but of Peeta and...Peeta!”

#backtopanem #everlarkreadalong #ch 13-16

[bishopsbooks]

57. The dark side of nowhere by neal schusterman

I love this author so much. My favorite trilogy is the skin jacker trilogy so I bought this one and originally I had loved it so much... the ending wasnt great though. Overall I still really enjoyed this book so I'm giving it 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ because it was still really good. I have been dying to pick up a physical book again and I'm so glad I did. This 230 page book i read in one sitting. It took me about 4 ish hours to read, maybe closer to 3 and a half.

The writing in this book was amazing. There were so many passages I was like oh my gosh about.. one in particular was "imagine if the face you are looking at, isnt you" like wtf? SO GOOD! This is why I love this author. Imagine having to peel away skin layers to find your true self. This book was wild.

Ethan died of appendicitis... but nobody believes that. Jason and Paula visit old town and the creepy house that has quite the story to tell. When they see a picture of Billy, one of their classmates on the wall dated before they were even born, they know something is off. Jason's been lied to.. his parents claim everyone getting monthly injections.. but what for?

Spoilers !!!

I couldn't even imagine finding out your not really human and that the injections you've been getting are to prevent your body from rejecting the body you took over or from you becoming allergic to the body you took over. I really enjoyed this one. I'm excited to read bruiser which is another one I bought recently by this author.

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“Don’t forget me,” Nick said. “No matter where your life goes, no matter how old you get. And if you ever get the feeling that someone is looking over your shoulder, but there’s nobody there, maybe it’ll be me.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#Everfound #skin jacker trilogy #neal shusterman #quote

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“Do you believe that everything happens for a reason?” Allie asked Nick, as she watched them. Nick sighed. “I looked right into the light and I still have no idea.” “Well,” said Allie, starting to climb her way down from the mound of sofas. “Just in case, I’m going to treat everything like it does,” then she went to join Jix.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#neal shusterman #Everfound #skin jacker trilogy #quote

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly we believe, no matter how deep our think tanks and how high our aspirations. But as anyone will tell you — for we all know this within our hearts — the impossible happens and grand cosmic mysteries are solved on a regular basis, although most of the time the solutions lead to even greater mysteries. There is a place, however, where all the mysteries have been solved, and all the answers have been given, and there is nothing anywhere left to know. You can find it if you try, if you are true of heart, and strong of will, and know beyond all else that it is a world you wish to live in.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#Everfound #neal shusterman #quote #skin jacker trilogy

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“I’ve loved you for a very long time,” Nick said to her, “in spite of all the bad stuff that;s happened between us. Why do you think that is?” “I’m not answering your questions, Nick. I have no answers.” “I’ll tell you why, then. Because you let me see who you could be. Not who you were, not who you became. Which means the Mary I love, in a way, hasn’t even been born yet. But she could be now.”

A conversation between Nick and Mary in the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#neal shusterman #Everfound #quote #skin jacker trilogy

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“Mary could never escape from the dark place in which she existed. There would never be a doorway of illumination for her. How could there be doorways when you’re blind to everything but the walls?”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#neal shusterman #Everfound #quote #skin jacker trilogy

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“The living world is not a womb, Allie would have told Mary if she could. It’s the nursery, the school, the home, and the hearth. It is the source of all possible futures. And Everlost? Everlost is no more and no less than the portraits that hang on life’s walls. This would b e a bland and bare universe without Everlost, but like a portrait, its place is on the side, not in the center.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#Everfound #quote #skin jacker trilogy #neal shusterman

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“Bad luck, bad karma, and simple human error.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#neal shusterman #quote #Everfound #skin jacker trilogy

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

"Mary treats everyone unfairly, she said, and somehow she makes you feel like that's exactly what you want. I'm glad you aren't falling for it anymore."

Said by Allie in the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#neal shusterman #quote #Everfound #skin jacker trilogy

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“And then we save the world.”

Said by Mary in the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#Everfound #quote #skin jacker trilogy #neal shusterman

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“They came here: ground zero of the first cataclysmic blast — the one that made all the others possible, and therefore will forever bear the burden of all things lost.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#Everfound #quote #skin jacker trilogy #neal shusterman

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“The first atom bomb, modestly called ‘the gadget,’ was detonated, in the single greatest moment of earthly invention and destruction, for the power to create always goes hand in hand with the power to destroy.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#neal shusterman #quote #Everfound #skin jacker trilogy

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“Mary Hightower writes ‘destiny is the sum of the choices that god knows we’ll make.’ Allie the Outcast adds ‘not even Einstein can do that king of math’.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#neal shusterman #quote #skin jacker trilogy #Everfound

[princess-runs-with-pants-down]

“It was winter now; the living would have to enjoy their frostbitten fields and bone-chilling winds… Because their world would never see the spring.”

From the novel Everfound by Neal Shusterman

#neal shusterman #Everfound #quote #skin jacker trilogy