I started out not particularly liking The Hunger Games trilogy - the first book struck me as a watered-down imitation of Battle Royale, and I was in no particular hurry to finish the series.  However, I’m happy I did, as the change in tone from the first to the second and third is rather startling.  Spoilers about all three books behind the link…

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I wasn’t in my dream last night, just experienced it from a third-person limited omniscient perspective. There was this girl who was dog-sitting at someone’s house for the summer, only they were there a lot, a husband and wife and their baby. The girl was taking some kind of class at a school, and at the end of the semester the teacher ate all the students alive, then went to a staff meeting with red-stained teeth and a protruding belly. I was less alarmed by the content of the dream than by the realization that I’ve definitely had the exact same one before, maybe multiple times.