I have spent the past two days trying to decide how I felt about this book, reading people's comments online, discussing at work...before I tried to rate and review it here. This morning I realized that any book that you anticipate that much, read straight through and then spend days mulling over, IS really good; whether you like certain plot developments or not. Thank you Suzanne Collins!
Review by alyson (LibraryThing), August 29, 2013 Hmmm I have many mixed feelings towards this book, I definitely do not think it fully lived up to the pure epicness of the previous two books. I mean it did make a semi smooth transition from where we were left at the end of Catching Fire to this with her standing it what was District 12. But I think there could have probably been a better way to tell us about the events. I think that they focused way to much on Katniss's personality shift after being air lifted from the arena and her scars and I did not at all like that President Coin one iota!! And all the tension between Kat and Gale, and Peeta being hijacked .... god my heart was being twisted and turned and pushed in so many different directions. AGK! And Finnick's death scene was sooo totally glanced over, though probably reading it in detail would probably have destroyed a piece of my heart, but still, he played an enormous role in the last two books and was a very close and important friend to Kat and was paramount to her keeping it together ... I mean COME ON THE GUY HAD JUST GOT MARRIED TO THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, AND THEN HE DIES AND WE WERE ONL Y BRIEFLY TOLD ABOUT IT ... I had to go back and re-read that section because I was so like ... hey where'd Finnick go? He was there like a second ago!! That I found very devastating!! D: And then Peeta trying to constantly kill Katniss, did upset me because he was the kind one, the loving one.... he was basically the glue that held EVERYTHING together and for the Capitol to twist his mind like was soooo upsetting!! Real or not real pulled at all of my heart strings. Hmmm Oh and then *starts to cry* there was Prim ... need I go on ... Prim's death ... oh my god it had me practically balling my eyes I had to pause reading so that I could get a tissue because seeing the pages was becoming impossible. AH I had grown to love Prim (everyone loves Prim, no one in their right mind wouldn't LOVE PRIM!!) She reminded me of my little sister who is kind and helpful especially to those who are sick or injured and she is roughly the same age as Prim ... so it was pulled (actually it was cutting) at every heart string that I ever had! I was so devastated and then there was the whole whose bomb was it fiasco that followed but I so agree that it was President Coin who instigated that because I can't quite remember who said it but someone said that in a time like this everyone needed a great loss that affected many to pull them all together and to unite everyone in their grief for the loss of so many children .... and then there was the fact that Gale might have designed the bomb that killed Prim, which pushed a massive wedge between Kat and Gale, which did make me very sad because I did love the closeness of their friendship and how easy going they could be together, and no I'm not saying I was Team Gale, nor was I Team Peeta .... I was one of those funny buggers who sat on the fence looking at both boys and then at Kat and was like shiiittt who the hell you gonna pick, because they are both so equally amazing for their own unique attributes! depending on the scene I was reading at the time I would be all like AWWWWW KAT AND GALE SOOO CUTE LOVE THEM TOGETHER ... but then came the scenes where Kat and Peeta where alone at the cave and were making out and I was then like OMG OMG OMG FBAJKGBLSJNVBKJLNA SOOOO AMAZING THEY'RE TOGETHER *squeal/happy dance* Yes very fickle aren't I. But also the ending ... like the very end ... I think it could have been better sure it was cute enough and managed to tie up enough of the loose ends, like who she chose (Peeta) and what happened with the one she didn't (Gale - left and worked in another District to help rebuild etc.) and that Kat and Peeta had kids but also that they began to compile a book about all the people that had been lost during the process of ridding them of the dictatorship of the Capital. Overall I still absolutely love the series and will most certainly be re-reading the books many times ... I also love all of the themes and messages that can be taken from the books about the Government and the human race... Overall I love this series and highly recommend it to ALL!!!!
Review by MikkyZ (LibraryThing), August 29, 2013 I expected to be more disappointed, because I heard this quite often. An altogether really good dystopian trilogy.
Review by borhap (LibraryThing), August 27, 2013 It's my least favorite of the Hunger Games trilogy, but it's still a really good book. I like how the ending is realistic...things aren't honky dory...but the characters are working it out.
Review by CDVerhoff (LibraryThing), August 26, 2013 just adore these books read one after the order. so creative.
Review by Aoifesheri (LibraryThing), August 25, 2013 good ending to a great series
Review by mbklibrary (LibraryThing), August 25, 2013 Overall I enjoyed the book and couldn't put it down. I'm angry about some things though. I thought that there was too much unnecessary violence and that the author threw away some characters and some plot elements unnecessarily. Some violence and death is necessary for a book like this, but it was so much that it ceased to lose meaning, like a video game. Ultimately this was an unsatisfying ending to a great series.
Review by SheilaRuth (LibraryThing), August 23, 2013 Just barely four...I'd give it three and a half, if I could. I think Collins tied the book up well, but i felt it was a bit overrated. More of a review later, perhaps.
Review by publiusdb (LibraryThing), August 22, 2013 ok what a great book again... no wonder there is a waiting list for this series ... awesome. dont want to spoil anything . it is a MUST READ!!! GIVE A 5 THUMBS UP !!!!
Review by chymekeeper (LibraryThing), August 21, 2013 A great ending to a great series. Lives up to previous installments, and might be even better. This series is one of my all-time favorites. I am definitely going to check out Suzanne Collins other books, because her writing just sucks me in, and leaves me wanting more!
Review by cocoannie (LibraryThing), August 19, 2013 I love the Hunger Game series, but the final installment was harder to take for me than the first two. More depressing. But I'm glad that Katniss and Peeta find their way back to each other.
Review by nanfont (LibraryThing), August 19, 2013 Meh. The obvious conclusion to the trilogy, lacking all the spark and imagination, passion and commitment of the first. The trilogy descends deeply into the barely belivable. Katniss and family escape to the rebel district 13 and she agrees eventually to be the figurehead of the rebellion that is sweeping the other districts. But she deosn't liek hte way 13 is run, though has no ambitions to lead it herself - and the current President Coin is very strongly motivated to ensure she doesn't. Katniss gets to stand around alot, mope in corners, and appear on tv a bit. Pretty much everyhting else happens off screen. She also graps a vast amount o technology to which she's never been exposed in her life remarkably quickly. Everythingelse goes her way very smoothly with no explanation of why. Collins appears to have lost any desire to make more nuanced social commentary and goes for Government bad approach which doesn't really make any sense. Not really enjoyed, and only finished to find out how the obvious ending occures.
Review by reading_fox (LibraryThing), August 17, 2013 I have loved this series from the first few words all the way until the last few chapters of this book. ******spoilers****** The whole reason Katniss ever goes into the hunger games in the first place is to save her sister Primrose. So please, someone try and explain how anyone would ever think killing Primrose off in this book is a good idea on any level!! It makes no sense! She was the reason Katniss ever became the "face of the revolution"! I agree division thirteen leader should've been killed off, but not Primrose!! And I understand her psyche broke and that is why she was thrown into her room for weeks, but when authors wrap things up do quickly in just pages, I feel so let down. Love this series, but the last chapters ruined this book for me!
Review by LindsayChamberlin (LibraryThing), August 15, 2013 I thought this was the weakest of the trilogy. There were a lot of loose ends to tie up and some of them didn't get tied up. I would have liked to know whether President Coyne (sp?) did use the parachutes to end the war quicker, for example. I think the epilogue and the end of the last chapter were rushed a little bit. The author didn't really explain Katniss and Peeta coming together again, but it is a YA book, so perhaps that wasn't appropriate. She could have talked more about things they did together to rekindle/strengthen their relationship. All in all I thought this was a good series - very entertaining, if a bit violent.
Review by jlapac (LibraryThing), August 14, 2013 Having been gripped by the first two Hunger Games novels, I found Mockingjay disappointing. The action was confused in places and the characters became caricatures, most noticeably in the transformation of the rose-scented President Snow. The resolution of the romantic tension between Peeta, Gale and Katniss was disappointing.
Review by mark_lewis (LibraryThing), August 5, 2013 I cannot even begin to convey in words how much I loved the Hunger Games series but Mockingjay was my least favorite of the trilogy. The action was muddled as Katniss teeters back and forth from sulking and the brink of madness. The ending was strangely abrupt. Still though, the awesomeness of the rest of the series makes up for the not-so-awesomeness of this book by far.
Review by Pretear (LibraryThing), August 3, 2013 Now I really know why everyone recommended this book series left and right. Though I liked the first two books better. The end to the plot could have been better. It kind of leaves a hollow in you seeing the state at which Katniss ends up. Mockingjay overall is a disappointment to me.May be I set my standards too high thanks to Collins's first book. It looks like she was in a great hurry to finish off the book. Many characters like Finnick, Prim were killed of hastily.The love triangle of Gale-Katniss-peeta was poorly built and narrated. "Sloppy" would be the word to describe this part of the series.
Review by ShreeJan (LibraryThing), July 29, 2013 Wow, this was awful. Awful enough that it actually taints my enjoyment of the first two books in the series. Awful enough that it almost felt as though it was written by a different author. My first issue with this book is that, for the first time in the series, Collins seems to have changed her focus from "story" to "message," and the delivery of that message is amazingly ham-fisted. I found myself thinking "yes, I get it, I GET IT, I GET IT, I GET IT!" at the ever-present makeup and television cameras. The sad thing about it is that the most poignant and important lesson of the books - that war is a game where everyone loses, violence leaves lasting scars on the perpetrators as well as the victims, and these effects are all magnified when it comes to children - gets somewhat trampled under all the THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED business. Nonetheless, a multitude of sins are often covered by a great story, but Mockingjay falls short there as well. The plot quickly takes off into weirdly implausible twists and turns, and its treatment of characters and plot elements from the first two books is invariably to their detriment. For example, the one element of the first book that struck me as a slightly false note was the presence of "muttations," genetically engineered monsters that made an appearance in the Hunger Games arena. They just felt weirdly tacked on to the setting, but it was easy to let that slide in view of how well-put together the rest of the world was. Here, they're more prevalent, and the whole thing just seems very hokey in an Island of Dr. Moreau way. Also, President Snow becomes cartoonishly villainous in a way that defies belief, to the point that I went back and re-read sections of the second book to see if I remembered him correctly. And the romantic tension between Katniss, Peeta, and Gale, one of the most believable and best-written parts of the first two books, is dismissed here in what I can only describe as a hand-waving copout. Sad. I came close to giving this book one star, as it did its best to derail the entire series. What a disappointment. The best thing I can compare it to is the Star Wars prequels, where the world is nominally the same, and many names are familiar, but the writer seems almost to be making a conscious effort to ruin it all for you.
Review by benjamin.duffy (LibraryThing), July 28, 2013 The conclusion of the trilogy with a grand finale!
Review by IAmAndyPieters (LibraryThing), July 19, 2013 Excellent read.
Review by libgirl69 (LibraryThing), July 18, 2013 I can't decide if I want to give it fewer stars then that. I read it at breakneck speed and man, is it dark. And I'm not all that satisfied with the end. I feel like I understand where she was going with it but it doesn't actually add up, you know?
Review by sumik (LibraryThing), July 18, 2013 Find this review and more at On The Shelf! This was a very exciting ending to The Hunger Games trilogy! This book had the most action in it of all three and several ups and downs. There are things I liked and things I definitely think should have been different. Katniss is as strong as ever and we can see at several points how hurt and traumatized she is from everything the Capitol has put her through. President Snow is a disgusting man and I imagine him as a horrible snake that was transformed human since he has that kind of personality. Peeta’s change is quite surprising and it really hurt my heart that he was so different, but with what happened to him, yeah I would be different, too. There is just so much going on in this book! Things getting blown up, people dying, more things getting blown up, disturbing Capitol bred creatures showing up, explosions and more dying. There are not many slow points during this book. My biggest complaint, though, would have to be the way the uprising ended. It was a bit anticlimactic for me the way everything went down. I was hoping it was going to build for this huge blow out, but it didn’t have the bang I wanted it to. I know this book is going to be hard to watch on the big screen. For those of you who have already read this book, you guys know what I’m talking about. I’m glad they will be splitting Mockingjay into two movies, so hopefully they will get everything the way it should be. I’m very excited for the movies and I really enjoyed this trilogy! Action, hurt my heart, strong heroine, anticlimactic uprising.
Review by VykiC37 (LibraryThing), July 15, 2013 BOOOOOOOOO. I don't think anyone wants to know my true opinion of THIS conclusion.
Review by margaret.armour (LibraryThing), July 15, 2013 This book was absolutely amazing. Hands down one of the best books I've read this year. But it is also heart-wrenching. I now feel as if I am merely an empty shell, devoid of all human feelings and emotions. I don't know what to think or do, and I most DEFINITELY don't know what to read next. Books are my escape, but what do I read when a book is what has sent me into this state? What happens now?
Review by Irene.Ghattas (LibraryThing), July 12, 2013 At times, the writing in this book was almost incomprehensible. I literally had to STOP reading, GO BACK, and read it AGAIN, in order to understand some sentences. Sometimes I couldn't tell who was talking, what the character was referring to, or who he or she was talking to. It was frustrating. However, the conclusion was satisfying.
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