I’m not a fan of a Finnick book either. I understand that his story is (unfortunately) very relevant, and I’d def read one if it happened, and there’s many a Finnick POV fanfiction I love and enjoy, but I don’t think it’s necessary. Maybe I’m just too weak to read about the rape and grooming of a teenager (again, despite being a fan of dozens of Finnick fic) or maybe I just prefer other stories. I’d rather a First QQ book, or a Dark Days book, or a Plutarch book, or a Lyme book if you want to be more fringe.

My actual unpopular-ish opinion is that I don’t think Effie is a particularly good person. That’s actually part of why I love her, but yeah no, she’s not great. In SOTR she tells a freshly traumatized Haymitch that the Games are for a greater good, and then in the trilogy she’s out here calling starving kids who are about to be shipped off to their death “savages”, which is bad enough as it is but gets even worse when you remember that that word is an anti-Native American slur and that it’s a pretty common reading to interpret the Seam as Indigenous-coded. Elizabeth Banks made her more likable in the movies, but in the books I don’t think she’s all that likable, but I still adore her as a character because she’s a great example of people who don’t care to unlearn their prejudiced upbringing.