I really enjoyed most of the book and the commentary that came along with it, however, despite the ending being foreshadowed, it still felt clunky and did not make sense to the story and situation. It also wrapped up quite quickly without important conversations that would have been interesting to see.

I could see what it was trying to do but it also achieved none of it, instead being an incredibly annoying, boring and depressing book. The continuity of the language and communicative abilities of the characters and what they could say to each other made no sense. In the book as a whole there was no character arcs or anything continuous at all. The relationships between the characters with awful with one moment they get along and the next, the main character walking away. The author couldn't decide whether she wanted the child to be a child or acting like a grown-up in a child's bodies. None of the themes supposedly discussed in the book had any depth or actual conversation, just Wikipedia page summaries and one character discussing it once. Everything was also described in such horrid ways; I don't want marzipan described as 'fatty' and I never want this author to describe a body again, especially not a grown woman watching a child shower!!!! This is now the time I would say one positive thing about a book but I actually cannot summon a positive emotion I felt to any part of this book.

Left me feeling despair but without any substance to make it worthwhile.

The prose in this book was the best part and the thing that made the book work. It definitely left me with a lot to think about especially in relation to Humbert's perception of events. Every aspect of this book felt so meticulous I just wished that certain sections were just a bit shorter as the amount of detail just wasn't necessary. I am glad I read it and it has definitely made me interested in the rest of Nabakov's work.

The writing felt a bit clunky at the start but after that everything was good. I wish that it could have focused on different aspects of the world as a whole and carried on with Haymitch after the games to present some more insight as it felt repetitive to what we have seen before.

Dare I say instalove???