This book was an interesting wrap-up of all of the events. I'm not certain it the political undertones were planned or it just happened. I also thought it was interesting to see that throughout the three books, you see the main character grow in intimacy with her male counterpart(s), but it's never explicit in things happening...it's always a deeper emotional level. This is a change from Twilight that was...more blatant. Just interesting to see how two different series written for the same YA age range can approach the same thing in different ways. I also thought the ending was kindof abrupt, but at the same time I realize it would've been drawn out and very difficult to explain in detail how some of those ending pieces came to be. Overall a wonderful series.
Review by loralu (LibraryThing), January 18, 2012 Finishing this book answered all my questions, but at the same time made me sad. Completing the Hunger Games trilogy was like finishing a chapter of my life. I'd read this series for the whole summer and I absolutely loved it. Mockingjay really cleared up any remaining questions I'd had and added a twist that I hadn't expected at all. I'd been rooting for Katniss and Peeta all along and I was hoping the book had ended the way it had. These books made reading worth the time and I hope to find another series I can start reading soon.
Review by Allitozz15 (LibraryThing), January 18, 2012 After Catniss is saved in book two she brought to district 13. 13 was burned down in the last was but manadged to survive. 13 is protected by a bombing when peeta riscks his life on television to tell them that the capitol is about to atack. They all survive, Catniss has a mental breakdown and the rebbles a forced to save peeta annie and other victor that have been taken. they fing that peeta's mind and memories were completely scrambbled and changed to see catniss as a horrible person and not the one he loves.On a mission to do some fighting Catniss changes the plan and leeds the group to fing snow and kill him. when ctaniss reaches the mansion a bunch of silver parachuts come down. Catniss climbs high on the lightpost and sees allthe little parachust exploade( these silver parachutes are supposed to hold great thing to survive) she sees her sister run into battle only to be killed aswell.back with the rebbles she finds that they won and snow is beeing held captive. visiting snow she relises that snow didn't drop the bombs but coin (head of the rebbles) did. when it is time for snow to be executed by catniss she kills coin instead.
Review by Talje.thoe2363 (LibraryThing), January 18, 2012 This is the third and final book of the Hunger Games series. It follows Katniss after she and some of her competitors have been rescued from the arena by members of District 13. While I don't want to give anything away, I did feel like the ending was a bit rushed. I would have liked a few more chapters to resolve matters rather than the rushed way it appeared. Overall, I thought this was a good conclusion to the series and highly recommend the books.
Review by JanaRose1 (LibraryThing), January 17, 2012 At first, I was POSITIVE I was not going to like this book anywhere near as much as I did the first two. From the mediocre reviews, the hinting suggestions from friends that it just didn’t live up to others, and my own doubts about how Suzanne Collins was going to be able to end the series, let’s just say I was afraid for this book’s safety. I was positive I was going to give it 3 stars, say, “that was decent” and move on. Well… At first I WAS disappointed. I was disappointed in Katniss. Couldn’t she pick someone and stick with them? I was disappointed in Haymitch. Couldn’t he sober up and help Katniss when she needed it? I was disappointed in the Capitol. Couldn’t they get over their greed for power and realize that so much life was going to be wasted in the coming months? Let’s just say, I was disappointed. After the original disappointment wore off, what came next was bitterness. I could feel how Katniss had changed since her time in the games. I felt like I understood her — she said something to the effect of not liking anyone that she didn’t have a lifetime to decide about — I felt so similar to her (is that a bad thing?). Although this book is much more centered on the political rebellion aspect of the world of Panem, I enjoyed it (almost) no less than the other two in the series. There were parts in the first third of the book that felt jumbled to me, a weird mix of long stretches of introspection with sharp bits of action thrown in. It was jarring, to say the least. I want to say I have not devoured a series as quickly as I did this one (minus the brief break before I got my hands on the other two books– I decided to treat myself on my birthday) in a long, long time. Some may say this book disappoints as a finishing touch to the series. My bitter/angry/desperately sad tears for the last twenty pages beg to differ. Again, my call is that if you liked The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, you HAVE to read this book. Even if it doesn’t give you the ending you want, you must. I was initially angry about the wild turn of events, but then I realized it was completely realistic and fitting to each characters’ personality. I think Collins knows her characters very well to finish the way she did. I hope you read and enjoy this series as much as I did. It certainly has my stamp of approval.
Review by HannahRose42 (LibraryThing), January 11, 2012 The third book of The Hunger Games Trilogy lack the imagination that the first two have. IF you have read the first two books, it is obviously a must read to get the end of the story. I was not glued to the book as I was with the first two, I honestly just wanted to have closure. Characters that have been well built in the first two books drastically change leaving me to wonder where the strong character I had admired went. Although this is breifly explained by detailing of the stressful situation, it does not seem realistic even for the situation.
Review by HilAVer (LibraryThing), January 11, 2012 -Comment-
I hope this book turns out as great as the others.
Review by alexmcdonald (LibraryThing), January 11, 2012 This book has a lot of action and Suspence, it makes you want to keep reading
Review by Mrs.GraysClass (LibraryThing), January 9, 2012 A rather depressing end to a pretty good yarn. Nothing very uplifting or optimistic except that life goes on. I guess sometimes that is enough. But in a sci-fy fantasy world ???
Review by labdaddy4 (LibraryThing), January 6, 2012 After reading some of the reviews that this 3rd and final book of the Hunger Games was inferior to the first two, I was reluctant to read it. However, it was very similar and just as enjoyable for me as the others. In Mockingjay, Katniss has been rescued by the rebels who have been holed up in District 13 (previously thought to have been destroyed). The rebel leader "Coin" wants Katniss to be the spokesperson and visible leader for the rebellion against the Capitol, due to her celebrity status as the Mockingjay. However, Katniss is reluctant to fall into line and the politics and war efforts by the rebels start to take on similarities to those enacted by the Capitol. Nonetheless, Katniss is eager to get to the front lines to that she can find President Snow and kill him herself. Katniss struggles, however, with the knowledge that her friends and acquaintances from the Hunger Games, as well as her friend Peeta, have been tortured and in some cases, killed on her behalf. As the reluctant heroine of the rebellion, Katniss leads a thrilling battle into the Capitol, which due to the technological advances of violent weaponry, brings on a scene similar to the Hunger Games, in a survival of the fittest in the streets of the Capitol city. I thought this book was just as exciting as the first two, though slightly more complicated due to the number of characters involved and their roles in previous books. I'm sad that this series had to come to an end as I enjoyed Katniss' spirit and fight for goodness in her horrifying and apocolyptic world.
Review by voracious (LibraryThing), January 5, 2012 This was satisfying, not the the best ending EVER, but satisfying. I can't wait for the movies!
Review by redpandabear (LibraryThing), January 3, 2012 Mockingjay is the final book in The Hunger Games trilogy. This review assumes that you have read the first two books in the trilogy, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, and may have spoilers for them if you haven't. In Mockingjay, Katniss must decide exactly how much more she's willing to sacrifice to keep the people she loves alive and help the Districts' rebellion. Once again, the action is non-stop and kept me on the edge of my seat. There are a couple of reasons why this is a four-star review instead of five-star like I gave the first two books. One is that I had some trouble following the descriptions of the Capitol and the action that took place there. Two is that I was disappointed with the way the Peeta/Katniss/Gale love triangle ended. I felt like Collins gave Katniss a really easy way out. Other than those two points, I thought this book was a satisfying end to the trilogy.
Review by mcelhra (LibraryThing), January 2, 2012 An amazing ending to a terrific series.
Review by Steve777 (LibraryThing), December 31, 2011 After surviving two Hunger Games, Katniss finds herself playing another kind of game in the war to crush the Capitol and save the people of Panem. This third book of the trilogy had even more surprises and plot twists than did the first two books. It was well thought out and simply brilliant! I couldn't put it down! That being said, I was still somewhat disappointed by it. I had an idea of how I wanted the story to end and it ended with almost everything being the opposite of how I'd wanted it to be. Though, I can't really blame the author for that. Certainly, everyone has opinions on how it should end and it's unrealistic to think that everyone's opinion will be the same. I did find Katniss, Peeta, and Gale to be less likable in this book. I found myself rooting for Prim, Finnick, and Boggs instead.
Review by MMWiseheart (LibraryThing), December 31, 2011 I loved this book, but the ending could have been done way better. It just seemed like Suzanne Collins was in too much of a hurry to end the book. I wish we could have heard more about the guy she did not end up with. All Suzanne said is that he ended up in a different district...really?
Review by Katie1723 (LibraryThing), December 27, 2011 The Hunger Games just ended for me, in an explosive, compelling way. After being told about District 12’s destruction, Katniss is in District 13, settling in as her new home. Katniss is determined to become the “Mockingjay,” the figurehead of the rebel movement against the capitol. Katniss also wants to personally assassinate President Snow. Before that, however, the District 13 rebels have to rescue Peeta from the hands of the capitol, as he was taken there after the Quarter Quell Hunger Games. When he returns, the rebels find out he was brainwashed of all his good memories of Katniss, and had them replaced with horrible ones. Peeta is suddenly against the rebel movement, and no one knows if he will ever return to normal. Meanwhile, the rebels are planning an invasion on the capitol, while Hunger Game heroes, such as Katniss, Peeta, Johanna, Finnick, as well as Gale, train to fight in the capitol. As the rebels enter the capitol, things quickly go wrong as many traps and bombs go off, killing a good amount of the rebel source. Eventually, Katniss is left to go one on one against the capitol and President Snow. Will Katniss win out, destroying the capitol, it’s president, and it’s games? If so, at what cost? Who will Katniss chose as her lover, Peeta, or Gale? The third book in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy might have been my favorite of all three. Like in the second book, the plot has many twists and turns. Some of these twists include Peeta’s sudden turn to anti-rebel, the many rebel deaths, as well as one of the most shocking endings I’ve ever read. Collins really did a good job changing the focus of the plot, while always staying on the path the defeating the capitol. Another thing Suzanne Collins did well , like in the other books, was her ability to include new characters, that instantly had a impact on the outcome of the series. Characters such as President Coin had a huge role on what Katniss could do to attempt to defeat the capitol. What I also I enjoyed about this book was the struggles put upon Katniss, forcing her to overcome them. Katniss had to attempt to deal with the changed Peeta, train for the rebel raid in her crazed state of mind as well as in her bad physical condition, and deal with many deaths as she pushed on, attempting to kill Snow. It really taught that you had to overcome many obstacles to attempt to reach your goal, which was what Katniss did, when she reached the center of the city. The many settings in “Mockingjay” were really influential to the conclusion of the book, much like in The Hunger Games, as well as in Catching Fire. Some of the great settings include District 13, which is an underground city where many rebels live and train, and District 12, which is destroyed with almost no inhabitants left. The capitol is also a great setting, with the underground maze of sewers, many streets, shops, and apartments, as well as traps set to kill Katniss and the rebels. Collins really chose great settings that really enhanced the plot to the point that I was on edge for almost the entire book! Overall, I would rate “Mockingjay” at 4.5 out of 5 stars. The entire Hunger Games series came down to an unforgettable, emotional, and ruthless battle in the capitol between the rebels and the peacekeepers from the capitol. Truthfully, there was no real winner in the whole skirmish. The plot, including the time in District 13, as well as in the capitol, was very intriguing, with many new conflicts arising and concluding in the final book. The many intricate settings also added to the plot greatly, as they played a heavy impact on the fate of the rebels. The series, as a whole, had to be one of the best I’ve ever read, with all three books continuing the ongoing struggles and battles of Katniss Everdeen. This book, as well as the series, are for any action, adventure, romance, or science-fiction lover that would enjoy a top-notch series by an incredible author. Kudos to Suzanne Collins, for writing this incredible series and taking me on this amazing journey.
Review by ctmsrybo (LibraryThing), December 21, 2011 SPIOLER ALERT
The last book in the Hunger Games trilogy, Mocking Jay, is a greatly built add on to the first Hunger Games, but it doesn't have the same feeling to it as the Hunger Games did and was, in a way, loose.
The story is about Katniss, being lifted from the Quarter Quell and told there was no District 12 anymore, now lives under ground in District 13, with Gale, her mother, Prim, Finnik, and Beetee. She is sort of blind to the world and doesn't follow the schedule imprinted on her arm every morning. She is preoccupied by the thought that Peeta is in the Capital being tortured. She then agrees to be the Mocking Jay for the rebels under one condition; Peeta and the other victors will not be executed. And so she becomes the Mocking Jay, undergoing weeks of torture for herself and taking all the blame and putting it on her shoulders. When they finally rescue the Victors, Peeta thinks that she is now a mutt from the Capital, that she ruins everything she comes in contact with. Now she tries not to have a mental breakdown and shut down all together as everyone who is dear to her becomes dead trying to save the one and only Mocking Jay.
Now it’s an okay story line but Suzanne Collins' writing is so... predictable. When you think about it, a lot if books get published because they're so UNpredictable. When Peeta came back and thought she was a mutt, you already knew something would be wrong with how they felt about each other, just waiting to know what it was EXACTLY. And when Prim dies, granted it was sad, but I knew something bad and/or sad was either going to happen to Peeta, Gale, or Prim because she tried so darn hard to keep them alive! All I'm saying is that she maybe could have mixed it up, throw something I wasn't expecting, you know? Any who, I love this book and I don’t think it should be NOT CHANGED AT ALL, just tweaked because this is one book that I am going to read over and over again.
Review by ctmslesu (LibraryThing), December 16, 2011 Must Read - Excellent characters, thought provoking story, and easy to become absorbed in. While this may be a young adult novel according to genre, it is an excellent read for any reader 9 to 90!
Review by whiteknight50 (LibraryThing), December 16, 2011 This book is much better when read in succession with the first two. The pain and suffering experienced by the characters (and readers) is much more understandable when read as a unit than when read separately.
Review by eward511 (LibraryThing), December 13, 2011 I would like to say that Mockingjay, like the TV announcers of old used to say, is the thrilling conclusion for the Hunger Games series, but I can’t. It is the conclusion of the series, no doubt about that, and while it does have a lot of action packed into it, there were not enough surprises to make this a truly thrilling ending. Happily, Ms Collins goes against another YA trend, in addition to the lack of vampires and other supernatural creatures, and based on the ending, it is clear that there will be no more books for this series. At least one author out there realizes trilogy means a three book series. If, as a reader, you are coming into the series cold at this point, you will not be totally lost. There is plenty of backstory replayed to help the story make sense to those new to the world of the Hunger Games. For those already indoctrinated, the review is not tedious and provides a chance to refresh your memory if you have not been able to read these with no breaks between the books. From a technical point, the writing continues to be very high caliber: the characters are true to their roles as laid out in the other two books, the dialog is well done and the pacing is well timed. Maybe that’s the problem: at this point, the twists are easy to anticipate because everyone runs true to form. What offsets these shortcomings is a subtle shift in the philosophic direction of some of Katniss’s musings. Think Ayn Rand lite and the reader may start seeing Katniss Everdeen as a Dagny Taggart type character, but nowhere near as forceful; remember this series was written for a contemporary YA audience. While still very satisfying and above average, Mockingjay just does not quite measure up the other two books for this series. I still think this is worthy of a full four stars, so it still makes a fine conclusion, not just as thrilling as I had hoped it would be.
Review by PghDragonMan (LibraryThing), December 8, 2011 Ultimately an unsatisfying conclusion. I found it both too fast and too slow; Katniss is knocked out during key moments of the plot, and in the final pages we don't really understand what she's trying to do. And I felt that the climax was gratuitously depressing. In the end, I think it's not clear whether Collins is trying to present a world where there is hope, or a world in which we become the oppressors we hate, and it makes it hard to judge the final pages.
Review by calmclam (LibraryThing), December 5, 2011 The final book in "The Hunger Games" trilogy, "Mockingjay", proved to be an amazing conclusion to the entire story. There is more fighting, strategizing, heartbreak, humor, loss and injury in this book than there is in the first two. Everything seems to be far more intense in this book, taking on an "it's now or never" sort of mentality. I pretty much liked everything about this book. Katniss and Peeta have been through so much, both together and separately. But somehow, they are able to remain strong. Katniss has a small, but amazing, support system in her life that is comprised of her family and few good friends. She even makes some new and unexpected friends along the way that I really came to care about. I especially developed more of a liking for Haymitch and Finnick throughout this book because they related even more to Katniss than I initially expected. I would also just like to say, that even though his presence may not be that significant to some people, that I just love Buttercup! =) I was unbelievably pleased with the ending of this book. Don't get me wrong, there were so many things that happened along the way that had me heartbroken (pissed off, even), but all the tragedy just made it all so realistic and made the cause worth fighting for. Also, the epilogue was one of my favorite parts in the entire book! I know there is so much more I could say about the last installment of "The Hunger Games", but I am at a loss. There are just far too many fantastic things about it to reference.
Review by ShanonS (LibraryThing), November 29, 2011 Mockingjay is the conclusion to the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, which takes place after Katniss arrives at the thirteenth colony. There, she is turned into a symbol of the resistance against President Snow, even while Peeta is being held hostage at the capital. Katniss goes through a lot of psychological trauma in this book, but she still works to free Peeta and others from the hands of the evil capital. Readers will gladly gobble this book because of the love for the other two books in the series, but it's definitely the weakest book among the three. Katniss spends a huge amount of time just wandering around lost in mental trauma during this book, which is understandable considering all she's gone through, but then the ending of the book wraps up some huge issues in the three books in a few pages and paragraphs. This book honestly feels rushed; like Collins had to get the book out and didn't have the time to get it what it really needed to be a successful book. Still, it will undoubtedly be successful because of the love of the Hunger Games world that Collins established in her previous works.
Review by jackiediorio (LibraryThing), November 28, 2011 Katniss has escaped the arena for a second time, but at what expense? Peeta has been left behind, captive of the manipulative President Snow (an undeniable addition to the ranks of literature’s truly unpleasant villains). As she tries to deal with this betrayal, she is being groomed once again; this time as the public figurehead for the war between the districts and the Capitol. Now the theme of power – who wants it, for what motivation, who will do what to acquire it – always a controlling theme of these books, now comes to the fore with a cascade of consequences that all seem to directly affect Katniss. This series began as obviously ‘young adult’ material, despite the vividly described danger, death and desperation surrounding the characters in the districts and arenas. By the end of Mockingjay, Collins has notched up the ‘horrifying situation’ quota exponentially… Katniss took emotional beating after emotional beating (generally followed by several literal beatings) and then Collins ended on a truly harrowing note. The epilogue cushioned this a bit, though there were still no easy conclusions given. I admire Collin’s refusal to coddle the younger reader from the realities of humanity’s capacity for cruelty, but I wish she’d coddled me a bit! She seemed to have an unerring instinct for which characters I wanted to know more about, proceeded to bring them further to life and then, well, killed them. The last instalment has drawn poor reviews because Katniss, such a strong protagonist, basically gave up (on more than one occasion), but I thought it a likely response; it mirrored her mother’s period of depression while, unlike her mother, she never gave up when those in need were in front of her, and action was possible. I think she still warrants a ‘strong female protagonist’ label, despite the ongoing state of grief in which she had to function. This series is really something else, when measured against other young adult lit. It’s not fluffy, not even slightly; even the passages devoted to clothing and costumes are fraught with purpose. The excitement that Collins provokes due to fast pacing (once more back on form after the slightly glitchy Catching Fire) is only rarely balanced by any comforting or uplifting scene. It’s not entirely without humour (Buttercup makes several welcome appearances) though, and that does make a difference in how readable the series has been, and particularly this book. Dystopian fiction has always been one of my favourite genres, and I am deeply impressed by how brutally and effectively Suzanne Collins has dealt with it. I don’t know what she’s going to follow with, but I’m certainly going to be reading it.
Review by eleanor_eader (LibraryThing), November 28, 2011 Mockingjay once again picks up where Catching Fire left off, only now with the rebellion against the Capital in full bloom, and answers from the first two books finally begin to get answered, or pulled together to the final book in the trilogy anyway. There are plenty of twists and turns in this final book to remind us that things aren't always as they seem, and that we only know a portion of "the truth." The portion that affects us most directly. If you think you know how this series is going to end, I suggest you read this book before you continue with your suppositions. There are portions of the book that read a bit slower, particularly the beginning of the book. But once the conclusion of the book and the trilogy begins to wrap up, things get more exciting once again. And as the book wraps up, we learn about the fates of everyone in the books--Katniss, Prim, their mother, Gale, Peeta, Finnick and the rest of the tributes from Catching Fire, President Snow, Haymitch, Midge, Buttercup the cat, and everyone else we've met along the way. I think this book wraps up the trilogy quite well.
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