My feeling is that it could very easily become a story where the heroine spends the entire book catching up to the audience, which knew that the Games were evil from page one. This sort of plot comes up a lot in historical fiction (the heroine learns that slavery or racism or whatever is bad) and it has to be very well done to be worthwhile.
Or there has to be a lot of other stuff going on in the book, so the heroine's forced march to enlightenment isn't the only thing the story's got going for it. The Hunger Games definitely could have done with more worldbuilding: I was so disappointed when the second book skims over Katniss's victory tour of all the districts. I wanted to tour them too!
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Date: 2018-01-19 02:48 pm (UTC)Or there has to be a lot of other stuff going on in the book, so the heroine's forced march to enlightenment isn't the only thing the story's got going for it. The Hunger Games definitely could have done with more worldbuilding: I was so disappointed when the second book skims over Katniss's victory tour of all the districts. I wanted to tour them too!