Personally, and please don't kill me, the truth is that I have never liked the hunger games. For me, they are an example of how not to write in the first person (not to mention that it was indirectly responsible for creating a subgenre that should never have existed).

It's okay not to like a book lol. It's been a minute since I've read the series so I can't comment on Collins' writing style. I don't think it's necessarily fair to blame Collins for the copycat books that followed The Hunger Games and I think you agree because of your use of the word "indirectly".

I will say that Collins was very concerned with acting, pretense, and trauma. She wrote one of the few love triangles I find acceptable and it's because it's not really a love triangle - it's a corner and Katniss has been backed into it and it's stressing her out. The constant unrelenting scrutiny of Katniss' behavior and the fact that the only time she really gets to take her own back is when she's performing an act of violence - shooting at the judges, everything that happens in the arena, destroying an aircraft with an arrow, killing President Coin - seem perfectly calculated to create a character who can never know peace, and Collins follows through with that in the end instead of trying to give her an uncomplicated happy ending.

I don't know if I explain myself

You're fine!