Feature and Follow Friday (1)

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Feature & Follow Friday is a book blogger hop hosted by Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read.
It showcases bloggers and is a way to find more blogs to follow!
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This week’s topic:

Today’s is the US’ Independence Day. Share your favourite book with a war in it, or an overthrow of the government.

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)One of the best government overthrows was in The Hunger Games’ book 3, Mockingjay. It was amazing. It was eloquent and subtle and classy as fuck while being a war that was broadcast all over TV. And people died, yo.

One of the things that amazes me is how governments actually can be overthrown – the process of it, I mean. I come from a fairly peaceful country – well, one where the government is often overthrown by their own party (ha ha). The military has never been involved in overthrowing a government, protests are mostly to do with the environment and education, and riots are usually racially motivated.  In cases like the Syrian civil war that has been going on since 2011, over 100,000 people have died, over half of them civilians.

In the book the small guerrilla task force team simply has to make it to the capital building and murder the president. I’ve always assumed (somewhat naively) that it would be harder than that, that whoever is protecting the president, whichever army, wouldn’t just drop everything and bow to their new conqueror like a peasant to a king, even if they have nothing left to fight for, and even if you have a new president waiting in the wings.

My bad.

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About Nemo

A lover of kittens and all things sparkly, Nemo has a degree in English Literature and specialises in reviewing contemporary, paranormal, mystery/thriller, historical, sci-fi and fantasy Young Adult fiction. She is especially drawn to novels about princesses, strong female friendships, magical powers, and assassins.

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12 thoughts on “Feature and Follow Friday (1)

  1. chrinda jones

    One of the great books depicting the awfulness of war and combat from a soldier’s point of view would have to be the classic ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’. I read the book in high school and was taken aback by how raw and exposed the author wrote his character’s take on combat. Eye opening. A great novel.

    1. Nemo

      That’s really cool and sounds like a great reading experience. Unfortunately I don’t like reading about real-life wars, but thanks for the rec anyway!

  2. Lizzy

    I liked the politics behind Mockingjay, however I wish that Katniss was in more of a position to really get her hands dirty, instead of being stuck as a “figurehead”. Characters did die, however, and some of them really surprised me.

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  3. Fahima

    Great pick! The Hunger Game sis actually a perfect example! I love the books, and am so waiting for Catching Fire to release! 🙂

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