*** This review contains spoiler *** I am totally blown away.It is a masterpiece but did I love it?It's hard to tell.After finishing it I am confused on my feelings.How could you love something so heart wrenching and sad?Yet I am sure I will never forget this one,ever. Every page of this book is worth reading but wait,it's not for faint-hearted people.You will be disappointed if you are expecting some love triangle showdown.This series is not about romance.I have seen that people are complaining about it because of the lack of love triangle showdown.Honestly what did they expect?This book is so much more than romance or love relationship.And I never felt romance would be the main course of the book. The book is dark,so dark.It started with Katniss trapped between two sides of power hungry people who wanted to use her for their own good.She lost Peeta to the Capitol,her district was destroyed.She constantly struggled to find meaning of her own life but was lost in depression.Everyone was trying to use her and she had to let them to save her loved ones.She was with the rebels now but it wasn't any different than in the clutches of the Capitol.They were as demanding,controlling and manipulating as the Capitol.But she had to save Peeta from the Capitol,so she became the icon of the rebels,The Mockingjay. Soon she found out her becoming the mockingjay resulted nothing but torture for Peeta.It was clear in this book that she loved Peeta.Throughout the book she clutched the pearl Peeta gave her.I just knew from the start that she would choose Peeta over Gale.The connection they formed in the arena could never be broken and the people outside the arena could never enter in their distressed world no matter how much they love her.And that's what happened.Gale constantly slipped away from her and she craved more and more for Peeta.But nothing was the same,the way she knew it,not even Peeta.Peeta didn't love her anymore.Capitol altered his memory of Katniss and now he hated her. After she united the districts against the Capitol the leader of the 13 wanted to get her out of the way.She became a threat,she was on the way of the power hungry rebel leader.But she refused to get away,she will fight until the last.She didn't know how she would have to pay the price.To make her useless,to make her nothing but a lifeless human shell the rebel leader Coin very tactfully murdered her sister Prim along with a lot of other children.This is the hardest part of the book for me.I was crying so hard.The grief of Katniss for losing her sister totally incapacitated me.It was like everything she did,every distress she endured went in vain.And Suzanne Collins is beyond amazing describing her grief.You just can't help but shed tears.She found out the main reason of her sister's death and killed Coin. After that she got released on the basis of her mentally incapable state.She came to district 12 alone.I was not surprised that her mother didn't come.She was never strong like Katniss.She abandoned her children after their father's death.So it was not really surprising that she abandoned Katniss again.Even Gale abandoned her and I knew he would for a better future or greater good.But Peeta returned and they gave each other support when no one else was around except for a drunk Haymitch.And they started their broken lives with each other from the ruins again. Really I couldn't think there was any other way to make it more epic.Of course I was devastated by Prim's death but that was the message.You can't win in a war.It always ends with losses no matter which side holds the crown.The only disappointment I felt was the death of Finnick.He deserved a better death.His death was so ignored that it felt he just wasted away.Suzanne Collins should have at least written a few more lines about his end.Except that there was nothing more she could do to make it better.It's not a sunny,happily ever after book.But where happily ever after books will fade away with time it will always remain in people's heart.
Review by sreeparna (LibraryThing), July 27, 2014 This is a really good book, but not as good as the first book.
Review by blog_gal (LibraryThing), July 26, 2014 Unlike all my other friends, this was not my favorite of the series, although it does come in a close second. It started out pretty slow, almost too slow. There were times where I felt it got monotonous, with the countless trips to the hospital, the morphling, the nightmares, etc. but something would happen that would break up the monotony. The love triangle was played up a little more in this one, which I did like. It served a purpose, but after awhile, it got a little tedious. Without spoiling anything, all I can say about the ending of this triangle is that I liked it, but it wasn't what I wanted to happen. I'll admit, it's a little selfish to say that I guess, but looking back it really couldn't have ended any other way than how it did. As for the rest of the ending, the first part of it is exactly what I'd hoped would happen, and the return to the Districts is sad, but inevitable. I don't want to give anything away, so you'll just have to look into the rest yourself. Read it. The whole series. In order. From start to finish. Cover to cover. You won't be sorry.
Review by cebellol (LibraryThing), July 22, 2014 This conclusion to the Hunger Games trilogy bleeds with pain, suffering and sacrifice. In the thread of the second book, 'Catching Fire', this book continues to delve into the emotional aspects of the story, as well as to come full circle to present Katniss Everdeen, the girl 'on fire' -- from her unscathed innocence to battle-scarred revolutionist, redeemer and survivor.
Review by MomsterBookworm (LibraryThing), July 14, 2014 I was impressed with the realistic (I guess mature is the more appropriate adjective) ending of the series. I expected it to be cheesy or cliche, considering this is a YA series. I expected true loves, lots of happy endings for the important characters, and a level of 'wrapping up' for Katniss. Instead, Collins sticks true to the heavy consequences of war and strife, and the casualties that would inevitably take place within. Not just physical casualties, but relationship casualties that occur when there are tragedies. I was both impressed and a little sad with the end of the series. In the end, I think my favorite book of all was the second, but I found I liked the progression of the story.
Review by SweetbriarPoet (LibraryThing), July 14, 2014 If you read the first two, then you have to finish the series. This book is well written, but be warned that it will leave you feeling lost and upset. Disappointed and depressed. I was a little frustrated, b/c I think Collins picked the ending that she wanted and wrote whatever she had to in order to get there, rather than following the story to a more natural conclusion.
Review by Tigerlily12 (LibraryThing), July 8, 2014 Ahh, the third of the series. It had more turns to it than I thought. Definitely a good read!
Review by csweder (LibraryThing), July 8, 2014 I wanted to love this. I really did. The Hunger Games and Catching Fire were so intense, so emotionally involving - but for some reason, Mockingjay lacked those qualities for me. Maybe it's a case of being in the wrong mood, or the wrong mental state to fully enjoy the book. Maybe I've been too distracted by other things in the days that I read it. Whatever it is, something was really missing here for me. The pacing felt disjointed to me, for one. There would be long stretches of nothing happening but Katniss wandering around 13, hiding in closets, or lying drugged in a hospital bed. Now, she has been through some traumatic and terrible things, and I completely understand why here existence would be reduced to these things. But then when the action finally happens, it feels rushed. I didn't feel as affected by certain characters' deaths. And Gale vs. Peeta? After the intensity of both of those relationships in the first two books, I found myself thinking (and being ok with it) that she might wind up with neither. Her choice between the two isn't really even a choice - it just sort of happens. For the whole of the book, I felt detached from the action. If I didn't already care so much about the characters going in, I'm not sure I would have cared about them at all. It had its good points, and overall I did enjoy it. But for whatever reason, it fell far short of the bar that HG and CF set for it. I went into this book expecting to come out emotionally raw and yet perhaps hopeful that even in a world as terrible as Katniss's, good can overcome evil. And I suppose it does, but it lacked the power I expected it to have. edit: Once I saved my review and looked again at the cover art, something else came to mind. After the first two books, I look at that cover and think of Katniss finally breaking free, triumphantly, of the Capitol's power and of the things that have been holding her down. Breaking free into a clear, blue sky full of promise. And that wasn't the feeling I was left with when I finished this book. Instead of taking charge, of fighting as ferociously and bravely and intelligently as she did before, she is sort of dragged along to her fate. I felt like I was waiting for her to snap out of it and do what she does best, but she never did.
Review by ashleyk44 (LibraryThing), July 8, 2014 The third and last in the Hunger games trilogy and in my opinion the best. I really enjoyed how the book played out and the ending kept was exactly what i was expected so that always helps.
Review by Silverlily26 (LibraryThing), July 5, 2014 Well, the good and the bad - the good, I'm done with the Hunger Games trilogy, so if my wife wants to get the last two movies, we can do that. The bad - I don't really want to see the movies. Mockingjay was just as bad or worse than Catching Fire. Katniss is still a horrible, weak whiny character, the main story somehow seems to still be centered on a lover triangle between her Dale and Peeta and I felt like the plot devices just ended up being so ridiculous. If you've read the first two books and enjoyed the first and didn't like the second, may the odds be forever in your favor that you'll like this last installment...but don't count on it.
Review by Sean191 (LibraryThing), July 2, 2014 I read this book a few years ago and I think if I wrote this review then I would of given it three stars. In light of the book being made into two movies I decided I wanted to read it again to decided where the book will likely be split and if there was enough content to make it into two movies. I decided that the story was definitely better the second time around, the book does have enough content to be made into two installments even though I still get angry that a certain person dies at the end because it left me thinking, what's the point? I enjoyed the book. I feel like I adore the characters even more and the story does go where it needed to go. Overall an ending to a series that makes sense. The writing is original and Collins voice definitely comes through. I hear it clearly now that I've read a few of her books.
Review by cfranson (LibraryThing), June 27, 2014 This book was good, but it was my least favorite. I hated how President Snow made all the characters change. The ending was too rushed.
Review by stephanie.dicesare.7 (LibraryThing), June 25, 2014 Mockingjay is the last book of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins and this book is just as brilliantly made as the first and second books. The book continues right where the 2nd book leaves off and Katniss is taken to the mysterious 13th District which was just thought of as a rumor until Katniss was brought to it. Sadly, her lover could not make it and it seems he was brainwashed though you have to read the book to find out what happens at the end. This book is made brilliantly by Suzanne Collins and there are many small hints in this book that you must be carefully watching. I will not give away the ending but I will say that you will definitely not expect what Katniss will do. All in all, Mockingjay is a phenomenal book which you should read for enjoyment and a novel full of suspense and an intense story.
Review by TomasJefferson (LibraryThing), June 23, 2014 This book is hard to stomach at times, but I find it such a well-done ending to the series. I know a lot of people hate the last half of this book, but it's one of the only endings that would have worked for me. Is Katniss weak in this book? Yes. Of course she is. She's been worn down, she's seen things NO one should ever have to see, and she's quite arguably suffering from PTSD. She's not the vibrant Mockingjay, the symbol of rebellion anymore. She plays it for the camera, but she's clearly broken. And while I don't really enjoy seeing Katniss like this, I find it believable. Same with the "pointless" deaths. I hate them, but the series wouldn't be the same if Collins hadn't included them. Katniss really becomes a shell of her former self by the end, but as a portrayal of the effects of war on her, I think the ending is just what the series needed.
Review by Stormydawnc (LibraryThing), June 23, 2014 A great conclusion to The Hunger Games trilogy. Highly recommend all three of them. Fortunately, this book doesn't feature any actual Hunger Games -- although the rebellion against the Capitol is almost as brutal as putting 24 children into an "arena" and getting them to fight to the death. By the end of the trilogy you feel battered and moved -- but not uplifted. I mean that as a compliment.
Review by nosajeel (LibraryThing), June 21, 2014 Being the last book of the Hunger Game trilogy I am not completely satisfy with the ending. I had always been in team Gale however if Suzanne Collins was to make Katniss marries Peeta I don't see why can't she kill the character Gale in the revolutionary war instead if making him turning away from Katniss because he had always loved Katniss I don't get how could he do this at all. Also I am not really happy with the movie coming out as two part because that would just be a waste of time and money the book is not even long enough for that.
Review by jennywulove (LibraryThing), June 9, 2014 A different story line to the first two books (ie not a return to the Arena). Ending was a bit deus ex machina, and Katniss' actions were based on a few brief comments from other characters earlier in the book. Either she was very immature and impulsive (in which case the consequences would have been more severe) or there should have been more evidence to support her actions.
Review by rlangston (LibraryThing), June 6, 2014 This is the last book in the hunger games when the Mocking jay, Katniss, and her crew of rebels set out to fight the rebels. I think these stories or very well written and I really enjoyed this one. I would use this book in the upper higher high school reading groups because it is a challenging book to read.
Review by AliciaFine (LibraryThing), June 4, 2014 Mockingjay is the final instalment in the Hunger Games trilogy, in which the struggles set in motion in the second book are realised and ended; the districts revolt and the oppressive rule of the Capitol is overthrown. This book has the grandest vision of the trilogy but suffers ultimately from trying to tell the whole story of the rebellion through the eyes of one girl. Yet this story-telling device is not necessarily bad, the reader experiences what Katniss sees and experiences, making what we do see of the rebellion more real; it is unlikely that one of the key figures of the rebellion would be everywhere at once. Though the weakest overall, Mockingjay is still a fun read and it presents some intriguing questions about the nature of the state and the individual, alongside the question of whether in revolting against an oppressor, is retributive violence necessary? Collins does a better job here of world-building, something the first book in particular lacked (except for its portrayal of District 12) - it was nice to see more of Panem and the society Collins created. Overall then, it is still a good YA novel and even for adults, a good and sometimes thought-provoking read.
Review by xuebi (LibraryThing), May 30, 2014 What a satisfying and moving ending to an amazing trilogy. I'm so sad the story is over, but it ended perfectly. I of course had to restrain myself from diving right back into Hunger Games and starting the cycle all over again. Long live the Mockingjay!
Review by camibrite (LibraryThing), May 25, 2014 As I don't want to really add any spoilers, I'm going to copy my review from Catching Fire here. I loved this book for the same reasons...it was just a continuation. One thing I didn't say about Catching Fire since it wasn't the end I do want to add though. (It isn't very spoilery.) I liked the ending of Mockingjay because it was realistic. I won't really go into why or who, but as a retired Military member I appreciated that the characters are not unchanged by what they've been through. That's one of the few things that bothered me about the Harry Potter books--how Harry never showed any real damage from the child neglect, stalking by Voldemort or battle. (Copy of my Catching Fire review below) This was such an incredible book. I read it out loud to my 9 year old and we both were riveted to it. Every night we have reading time and usually I can't get my daughter off the computer to come in on time to read. While we read *this* book she was often in early--"Mommy, can we start reading *now?* I won't go into the specifics of the story-line except to say that while it is a story with some very violent and horrible themes, it is also a story about bravery, individualism, being true to one's self and love. (Love of family, friends and the romantic love.) It is also very much a cautionary tale about government and the responsibility of the people to keep themselves free. This book was all the more disturbing to me though as an adult reading it because so many of the political machinations are so very real and possible in the "real world." A child may read it as fantasy but this dystopian world Ms. Collins has created is frighteningly possible--which make the book all the more relevant and thought provoking. Excellent book and highly recommended
Review by Clare_M (LibraryThing), May 25, 2014 It was nice to see this series end. It felt like Collins was on a mission to kill most of the people the heroine loved. Overall I enjoyed this book and appreciated the way Collins really explained the psychological motivations of some pretty messed up people. Nothing is easy in the book the characters really experience a very gritty and pretty awful life. It is a morality tale driving home several points one of which is 'war is hell'. I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first in the series but it kept enough of the essence that I was able to stay with it.
Review by fickledragon (LibraryThing), May 24, 2014 This series promised escape and a sense of fun. The first two instalments did that. Mockingjay is billed as the best of the trilogy. In its own right, it passes as light entertainment aimed at a youthful market. However, it just could not measure up to other more substantive examples of the genre, not even to the Harry Potter series to which it was sometimes compared.
Review by valmont.layne (LibraryThing), May 20, 2014 not the ending i was hoping for...definitely better than catching fire, but not as good as hunger games. i was hoping gale would die. in any case a very entertaining read. its not harry potter but its waaaaay better than twilight! i don't even understand how twilight could even be compared to this series. Just because a book has a love triangle doesn't mean you can compare it to that lousily written excuse for a vampire novel. i thought the ending made sense. the characters are very young, sheltered, and are suddenly thrust into a world of brutality. I mean watching and doing are a ways of in term of people killing other people. I thought that maybe her character would be a little bit more damaged than what the ending would gives us but certainly not bad way to end a story.
Review by seaofsorrow (LibraryThing), May 20, 2014 Yay for the Mockingjay!
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