Her argument was interesting. (I probably should have thought of it, but the fangirling side of me always takes over when we start talking about a guy as cool as The Hunger Games’s Peeta Mellark.) Sophie said that Peeta’s flaw is his insecurity and his obsessive love for Katniss.
Mind. Officially. Blown.
I take back literally everything I said about Suzanne Collins just writing whatever she wanted in Katniss’s life for the second two novels because, oh my God, Peeta has the best arch in the history of ever.
Well, not actually, but seriously, she made a genius arch for him. The whole obsession-annoyance/hatred thing between Katniss and Peeta is totally flipped for the third book, developing Katniss’s REAL love for Peeta (even though I still like to believe that she realized she loved him during their second Games when his heart stopped) and developing Peeta’s healthy, non-obsessive love for Katniss. He falls in love with her not because of her image or watching from afar like what happened before, but because he gets to know her, gets to see that she remembers his favorite color is orange not like Effy’s hair but soft like a sunset. (Oh my God, shut up. These aren’t tears; there’s just something in my eye.)
His insecurity is completely put to the test when the Capitol turns him into a mutt and tells him lies about his life and Katniss. Most of the rebels start to hate him, and Katniss feels so betrayed and terrified that she pretty much convinces herself that he’s not her Peeta, he’s just a mutt. Her open anger and confusion towards him makes Peeta have no rock with her, like he did for the first two books. Peeta has an internal battle that no one can help him with -- that no one really, honestly gives him support for -- which builds his confidence in his strength and abilities.
This recent discovery absolutely blew my mind. I know this post is short, but another review for Holly Black’s Folk of the Air Trilogy is in the works and on the way. Keep reading, readers.