Wow. This was beautiful. I won’t lie, you broke my heart in quite a couple of chapters and I felt so so bad for Katniss. :(

But then... Peeta’s growth and compassion shined through! And I absolutely adored that Gale had a hand in that. I’m tired of him being made into a villain!

Wonderful story! Absolutely gorgeous!

awww :) I agree! No luck!

But very sweet that Peeta felt that that day was the luckiest of his life

I have one disagreement with the plot though.. the part about Delly's story of Amaranth? Kind of ruined things

Thanks for writing and sharing!

Peeta - so good with words this whole chapter!

(And YES YES YES! Katniss AND Peeta now finally know she cares for him? fingers crossed!... gotta read the next chapter to confirm...)

Awesome story! Thanks for sharing it.

Wow this story was so unique, and you put a beautiful spin to it. I loved it!

How is it posibly that I just found this fic five years later?
I love to read your fic, almost felt as if reading the book!

Thank you!

Really good, although I dont like much when Katniss is so head on on the He is not my Peeta, and in the I want to say something and she never does... But is good in overall. Thanks.
(FNSHD)

I've been reading through this and realized I've read this before. It was terrific but I didn't remember the title. Shot to have rediscovered it. I like how you've portrayed Gale as a friend who sets aside his feelings to help Katniss. Quite different from how he actually acted in canon, but should have. And I love Peeta and Gale as friends. The story is far more compelling with them as friends vs. supposed romantic rivals.

Lmao at mumbles and scowls. Haymitch as comedic relief is awesome. Although I doubt k and find him too funny.

This should have way more comments!

Excellent start. Glad I can progress without pause!

I have to be honest, when I started reading this story I had no idea that it was going to basically rewrite the capital battle scene, but I loved your version, honestly way better than the original version which I hated. You changed the parts that I had the most problems with, for instance, having Gale and Peeta make a plan to take out the communication tower was awesome. I hated that MJ was basically Katniss saying "I want to kill Snow" and tricking the rest of her squad into going and they mostly end up dead. I hated that killing Coin was a last minute random decision made by Katniss, who has a terrible track record of choices, but yours made it a group decision and plan that Peeta and Katnisd ended up executing together. And I loved that the citizens got to find out that Coin was going to be a dictator like Snow before they killed her, I always thought that that needed to be explained to the citizenry to explain why they were going to do what they did. These were all critical elements of the story that were fatally flawed but you fixed them, and I loved it. Excellent job, this story turned out to be totally different than I expected and I'm thrilled by that.

Fabulous story and well written. As has been mentioned by other reviewers, it merits more reviews and favs than it has.

Personally, I never saw the mission to kill Snow as pointless. Even though it failed in its ultimate goal, without it the sequence of events that led to Katniss assassinating Coin wouldn't have happened. Moreover as propaganda the successful infiltration of the Star Squad into the Capitol would have been extremely valuable.

I've puzzled about what SC meant when Peeta says that Mockingjays need wings to survive. My guess is that the wings represent everything that contributes to the Mockingjay staying airborne - the rebellion, the media etc. Once they've gone, the Mockingjay ceases to be and becomes a girl once more.

I think when Katniss says "people don't need wings to survive" is referencing a time before she came to be the Mockingjay when she survived very well without wings, and also foreshadowing her survival when she no longer is.

I really enjoyed this.

Omg my heart . . . is breaking.

This is one of the best and most suspense fics I have ever read. You're amazing. This was beautiful. I'm crying.
Lovely finish. ;)
May the odds be ever in your favor,
Peetagrl3

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That was...that was...
*bawls*
I can't speak...I'm speechless...this was gorgeous...