Elizabeth's Reviews > The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy

I have very mixed emotions about this book. It's an unauthorized collection of analytical essays about various aspects of the Hunger Games trilogy by different YA authors (some more famous than others). A couple of these essays are gems for content, like Sarah Darer Littman's "The Politics of Mockingjay" in which she asserts that maybe the methods of torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners are not so far off from what happened at Abu Ghraib (waterboarding, anyone?). Blythe Woolston's essay on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (which, although never called that, is pretty accurately portrayed in the Hunger Games trilogy) is pretty good also. But by and large this collection is pretty poorly edited, and sources not always properly cited. Not to mention, where in the books is Katniss called "Kat"? I know Gale's nickname for her is "Catnip," but I don't remember Kat anywhere. An interesting read, but also skipable.