The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Girl Who Played with Fire. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Graceling. Fire. Bitterblue.
The Hunger Games. Catching Fire. Mockingjay.
Notice a pattern? (Or two or three?)
Fire keeps ending up in the second titles of trilogies, and it makes sense that it does. To me, at least, a "fire" title says that the first book may have started things off, but now, now, they're going to get intense. Cool-colored covers are for conclusions. The middle of the story is red-hot, or at least, it should be if it's to attract readers and keep the trilogy going.
Still, the trend makes me glad The Giving Tree never became a trilogy.
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EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - Empire RHYMES with fire.
ReplyDeleteKatniss of Hunger Games, Katsa of Graceling - so many Kats! What about iss? Prentisstown! Katniss! Lisspbeth Salander (ok that last one was a stretch)
What is the significance of all this? The Freemasons? 2012? THE ILLUMINATI omg omg *makes tinfoil hat, runs to YA section of the library*
Kat-ching Fire! Fire goes "hiss!" You're right, I'd better stock up on canned food and hunker down.
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