2018-Reread this book. Still Team Peeta. I love the fact that Katniss didn't really know what she had until she didn't have it anymore. The book was extremely better than the movie. Not really a fan of Gale by the end of this book. The book did come full circle and it is sad that it ended the way it did. 2012-Loved this book. I wish there was another one after it just about Peeta and Katniss together and working through their problems.
Review by LVStrongPuff (LibraryThing), November 29, 2018 I love the hunger game trilogy but I was so sad when it ended!! I was crying so hard! definitely going to be a re read
Review by ReadingwithLynn (LibraryThing), September 25, 2018 This is my second favorite book in the trilogy (Hunger Games being my favorite). Like Catching Fire, the first half of the book wasn't as interesting, but then it quickly became riveting. Suzanne Collins is great at writing chapters that end in cliffhangers. Amazingly written and a great read.
Review by aratiel (LibraryThing), September 5, 2018 So happy that I finally read this series. It was so good.
Review by donnijo (LibraryThing), August 31, 2018 I really enjoyed this series right up until the last 1/4 of this book. I personally had issue with how the series ended, but not because it was awful, but I felt it could have been better. However, I still think it was a good series and I still need to see the last two movies to compare them with the book.
Review by readafew (LibraryThing), August 5, 2018 Lunch bag letdown. The war-capitol/district stuff was well done, but the personal stories were glossed over and the characters seemed to be on auto-pilot throughout.
Review by Rdra1962 (LibraryThing), August 1, 2018 Slow and boring compared to the first one.
Review by EstherSpurrillJones (LibraryThing), December 11, 2017 was expecting a little more from the ending
Review by M.Akter.Tonima (LibraryThing), November 3, 2017 As so often happens I plan on reading a book, but because of all the hype behind it my students get before me. It doesn’t matter I have four copies of this book on my shelves. That just meant more students would get their hands on it. I will always let a student read it first unless they find it on my desk because I am trying to read it for a requested review from the author. Okay, sometimes I let them read it before me. This book was awesome. In this conclusion to the trilogy we find those we loved throughout the books coping. They are coping with the devastation of a war that was largely thrust upon them. They are coping with physical and mental loss. One thing I really loved about this book is that the author didn’t take the easy way out. She lets us see the effects war has on all parties and how each deals with it. She tied everything up neatly, yet for some they will hate the ending. Me, I loved it. Everyone wants a happily ever after ending. But, this is a realistic outcome. I like that even better. It makes it relatable to everyone. Listening to my students talk about the book before I could read it and seeing the connections they made to real life and how something like this could really happen opened my eyes to how deep some of my students are. Books like this make them really think about their future. That is why I loved this book and will continue to recommend it to my students.
Review by skstiles612 (LibraryThing), July 6, 2017 To be honest I feel kind of let down. I had hoped for things to end on a more happy note, but to be honest I found it to be very depressing. It's not that all books have to have a wonderful happy ending, I just feel like this was quite the let down. As a reader, I am not satisfied. I'm also extremely disappointed in the characterization of Katniss. She always seems to fall short and really truly is a weak female character. I should have just read the first book and stopped.
Review by Emma_Manolis (LibraryThing), June 27, 2017 The tragic conclusion to a tragic tale. The war is in full swing, people are dying left right and centre. The most important person to Katniss just blows up! Ouch. Peeta loses his mind, Gale is sad and depressed and Katniss is just running around like a chicken with her head cut off. She has a hard time following rules and she rushes into things without thinking. Buy hey, she saves the day in the end, so is it really that bad? The last page of the novel is heartbreaking. I cried. You will cry. It definitely pulled at the heartstrings. Poor Peeta. Real.
Review by Shahnareads (LibraryThing), June 21, 2017 One word: Devastating. It ended how it had to but like some of the best stories it left me feeling sad. The war is over, but Katniss won't ever really be free from the damage that's been done to her. And that's life, isn't it? Some wounds can't heal.
Review by N.R.Tupper (LibraryThing), June 10, 2017 Oops. I really did mean to review this back when I first read it. Mockingjay is, of course, the final book in the Hunger Games series. I found it darker and more political than the first two books in the series, different in tone, though still enjoyable. Some readers will struggle with what happens to favorite characters. The ending, is, perhaps, more realistic than wish-fulfilling. I think that's why it took me so long to review this: I had to sit with it for a while. (Maybe several years is too long a while, but . . . better late than never?)
Review by foggidawn (LibraryThing), June 5, 2017 It was riveting, but I was disappointed with the ending.
Review by e2d2 (LibraryThing), June 2, 2017 The last installment of The Hunger Games was a complete and utter let down. I knew it would be hard for this novel to live up to the previous two since the first couple of novels had an intriguing and fascinating concept at its center piece—the Hunger Games. That’s not to say that these were gimmick novels that only had that going for it, but without having the Hunger Games as part of this novel, it would be hard to succeed. However, if it was well written and well executed, it could still work. You only need to look at the final installment of the Harry Potter series where the main characters were not at Hogwarts to see a novel succeed that is a major departure in structure from the rest of the series. But alas, this novel did not even come close to succeeding. This novel failed in many different areas. The first failing is what they did with Peeta’s character. It didn’t work for me. Another area of failing was that there were too many technological things that were going on here with no explanation whatsoever. I’m not expecting hard science from the Hunger Games but they had one after another high technology aspects that seemed utterly implausible with no explanation of how they could be possible, and it really stretched the boundaries of believability. The ending is a letdown and is anticlimactic. The direction the rebel president took is also not remotely believable. Why would rebels who have been oppressed by President Snow follow someone who is just as evil? In the end, I wished the author had taken a different direction with this novel since this didn’t work. Carl Alves - author of Reconquest: Mother Earth
Review by Carl_Alves (LibraryThing), May 25, 2017 Uneven ending to an uneven conclusion of an imaginative trilogy.
Review by Razinha (LibraryThing), May 23, 2017 Still well done, although this is my second favorite of the trilogy. The first is still the best, in my opinion.
Review by bness2 (LibraryThing), May 23, 2017 one of the best books i've read!
Review by Megan.Aubrey.Truslow (LibraryThing), May 18, 2017 I actually expected more. In the moment of the highest peak, I expected a great occurrence. I am disappointed to read a so-so outcome. However, some of it was quite surprising and good. It is just that I'm not really satisfied with the climax and ending. It's like the author hurried the story.
Review by phoibee (LibraryThing), April 23, 2017 3.5 stars. I'll say why when I have a spare moment. It was more how much despair I can handle than anything inherently 'wrong' with the book. Suanne Collins is a terrific writer!
Review by KimFalconer (LibraryThing), January 29, 2017 Reading this book more than a year after the first two in the series, I didn't think this one was as good. The story wasn't as compelling and the writing was more fragmented in that every page is peppered with incomplete sentences. These are effective some places but to this reader, they were overused. The story is still good but for me wasn't as unputdownable as the first two.
Review by Rascalstar (LibraryThing), January 21, 2017 What do I say about Mockingjay? Hmmm, I liked it but not as much as the others. If anyone thought Hunger Games and Catching Fire were really "out there" wait till you read this one. I think Suzanne Collins is brilliant. I would recommend this book. And I did like the ending. I don't want to say anymore bc I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't read it.
Review by Sharn (LibraryThing), January 8, 2017 ::SPOILERS:: I think this book was just a downward spiral though there were still some good points. By the end of Catching Fire, Katniss' whining and tunnel vision were already becoming annoying, but in Mockingjay they became absurd. A protagonist doesn't have to be perfect or even good, but Kat was either complaining, raging, or drugged out of her mind through the entire book. I tried to view this as a story of a young girl driven mad by violence and war, but Collins doesn't seem to treat it that way. The heroes' lives are destroyed, the government is I'm danger of continuing the cycle it's in, no one overcomes their failings and then we're left with the sloppy conclusion to the love triangle where Kat and Peeta get stuck happily ever after despite the constant emotional abuse and manipulation they heaped on each other throughout the series. Oh and Gale and Kat's mother both decide they're just suddenly ok with being away from Kat for some reason. I'm fine with absurdity and meaninglessness if they are used purposefully, but it seems like Collins found them by accident. I think the most disappointing thing for me is that the behavior modeled by Katniss is to blow your relationship drama out of proportion, giving it priority over even the war that surrounds you, do what you want no matter how inconsiderate and dangerous it is, and it'll be ok as long as you figure out which boy to like in the end.
Review by typo180 (LibraryThing), January 2, 2017 The exciting conclusion of the trilogy. Katness is used as a symbol by the resistance. I like that Katness questions if having the resistance in charge will be an improvement. Too often in history people have revolted, taken one system of government only to find the new one is just as bad or not worse.
Review by nx74defiant (LibraryThing), December 31, 2016 Fairly disappointing finale to the trilogy. There seemed to be a great deal of filler in this title and I felt the author was influenced by the Twilight series while she was writing. I didn't notice this in the other two titles. The ending seemed to go back to the better writing quality of Hunger Games. One book too long in my opinion. But I guess it's hard to have a triology with two books!
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