In the final book of the series, Katniss, Peeta and others have escaped to the 13th District where they are making plans to stage an uprising. Katniss is having problems resolving her life and what the resistance movement wants of her. She decides to become their "Mockingjay" which will be the symbol of freedom. In their quest to overthrow the Capitol, many people die and in the end Katniss must make a decision about who lives and who dies as she leads the resistance movement to it;s final battle.
Review by bookcat27 (LibraryThing), November 27, 2011 Couldn't put this book down! A great ending to Hunger Games series.
Review by okdavy (LibraryThing), November 23, 2011 I do not know how else the series could have ended. Many folks seem to state that this was the worst book but I think it is because it is so different from the previous two. At times it seems rushed and moves ahead at an unnatural pace but it still was an enjoyable read.
Review by dirac (LibraryThing), November 18, 2011 I am looking forward to the Hunger Games movies after reading Mockingjay. It wraps up the series well. To me, it is the saddest book of the three. The Hunger Games is different from any series I've ever read. It was little confusing in some parts of the story, but it was also very sensory detailed. You can feel what Katniss is going through even though she has a different life than any of us.
Review by Medina93 (LibraryThing), November 18, 2011 I love this series! Mockingjay is the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy. Mockigjay would be hard to understand without reading the first two books. Katniss is now the symbol of freedom. Districts want the Capitol and President Snow removed. Katniss must accept the fact that sacrifices cost her friends and family. Mockingjay shows the grim reality of war-violence, loss, and brutality. The trilogy DOES NOT end the way that I expected! Nonetheless it was a good ending to a GREAT trilogy.
Review by cowgirllibrarian (LibraryThing), November 17, 2011 I really liked this book up to a point, but the ending is not my favorite. There is no sweetness, and after reading the Hunger Games, and Catching Fire, I really think Katniss should catch a real break... not be torn apart from everyone and everything.
Review by ABookVacation (LibraryThing), November 12, 2011 By becoming the face of the rebellion against the Capitol, Katniss loses power over her own life in Mockingjay. She essentially becomes a puppet of the movement - shooting propaganda videos and never going to the front lines of the battle. Initially I found this very annoying, but I realised that the face of the rebellion cannot be killed or harmed lest the war effort loses momentum. Katniss does participate in the action a few times, but only by disobeying the orders given to her by others, and these are some of the best parts of the novel. I find it ridiculous that Katniss is still swinging between Gale and Peeta in terms of romantic interest. Instead of deciding between them and sticking to it, she strings Gale along while harbouring feelings for Peeta, and hurts both of them in the process. The moment she started choosing Gale only when she deemed Peeta unattainable, Katniss should have realised her true feelings. She is never given an opportunity to make up her mind either - one of them leaves her and she decides to be with the other. A poor ending to a very promising romance story I think. The remaining victors of the Hunger Games are, at one point, required to vote on whether to force the children in the Capitol to face off in the arena. It seems that Katniss’ view counts the most, and she says YES. This seems completely contradictory as she, and the other victors, know first hand what it is like to be punished for their ancestor’s mistakes. Why would she, or any other victor, force other innocent children to go through the horrors they went through? Wasn’t the whole point of rebellion to stop the barbaric Hunger Games? I found this scene to be completely contradictory to the message of the rest of the series. Even with the confusion in Katniss’ character, the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy was a wonderful read. It concludes the series well, I am not disappointed in the ending, but rather that the series had to end at all. I guess I have to look forward to the movie now!
Review by alcarinqa (LibraryThing), November 3, 2011 Couldn't imagine how she was going to end this series--and would Book 3 live up to the other 2. In spades! What an incredible series. Almost ready to start from the beginning and read them again!
Review by mochap (LibraryThing), November 1, 2011 This book was sad because so many people died trying to save Katniss! I was crying so much when I read the part where Prim dies and I was like "NO! That can't happen!"
Review by doriselizatoledo (LibraryThing), October 27, 2011 This book is as well written as any of Suzzane Collins's other books. In my mind this series is equal to that of Harry Potter books and other series as such. When asked to fight for the resistance of the last thought lost District 13, Katniss feels betrayed. I hope this book is shared as much as any other. This book is also in depth and follows the storyline of the Hunger Games very well. This series is still my favorite to date.
Review by Phillipe.pper6327 (LibraryThing), October 26, 2011 Have you ever had to do something wrong to make things right? Have you ever had to deal with a huge problem that you caused? For Katniss Everdeen, this is the story of her life. The book, Mockingjay, the third and last book in the Hunger Games series, by Suzanne Collins is an epic conclusion to the series. Like the two other books, the description and plotline were exciting and captivating. Katniss Everdeen has had a tough life. She lives in Panem, which was once North America, and consists of a capitol that rules twelve outlying districts with an iron fist. She is from District Twelve, a mostly poor, coal mining district. She lives with her mother and her younger sister, where she must hunt with her friend Gale, to provide for her family. Later, she and Peeta Mellmark, another person from her district, where chosen to be the tributes for the Hunger Games, a gruesome “game” that the Capitol uses to keep the districts under their control. The Capitol forces each district to send two tributes, a boy and a girl, to fight to the death on live TV. During Katniss and Peeta’s time in the games, the Capitol promised them certain conditions, but in the end, did not fulfill those promises. Katniss and Peeta did not agree, and acted defiantly toward the Capitol’s actions. These actions opened the people in the districts eyes, and made them realize the cruel hardships the Capitol had put them through, and caused unrest among Panem. The uprisings continued to escalate, and everything spiraled out of the Capitol’s control, until, by the third book in the series, there was full blown war. Katniss is forced to give up everything and everyone she loves, and must give up all she knows that is right in the world to fight. She also has to deal with the fact that her friend has forgotten is no longer himself. While the ending of this book could use a tune up, the book rapidly spat exciting twists that solidly pieced together the book. A real “page-turner” Mockingjay was packed with cliff-hangers and baffling questions that fueled the storyline, and kept it going strong. The events were seamlessly woven into the pages. It also has all of the elements that keep a book interesting, and leave you with a clear picture in your mind. What makes the book the best of all three is the constant ironic twists. In Mockingjay, there were very few instances where this was true. The only place that struck me as a place that needed some improvements was the end. Although it summed up the major points in the book, it wasn’t very fulfilling. With a book, I want to have an idea of what is going to happen to the characters in the future and see how the events will play out after everything seems resolved (like in “Harry Potter”). This book gave very little of this, and some little questions and cliff hangers were never answered. The big things that were covered summed up the main part of the book, but some little things were just left blank. Also, some of the events around the end made a very depressing and sad mood. I would give Mockingjay four stars for its exciting storyline and seamless plot. I’d recommend this book to anyone who doesn’t mind a book with action, fighting, and wouldn’t be bothered by a little romance. Overall, this book would be enjoyed by anybody who likes an exciting book, and enjoys reading a book that will keep them occupied and interested (which should be everybody).
Review by ctmsbrba (LibraryThing), October 12, 2011 This final book in the Hunger Games series is lackluster to say the least. Although it sends an excellent political message, Katniss becomes a weak protagonist and the ending is rushed and incomplete. There is a nice twist as District 13 enters the battle against the capital, but the weakness of the protagonist and rush ending ruins this book. It is still suspenseful and full of action, which keeps it interesting.
Review by JessicaC35 (LibraryThing), October 12, 2011 In the third book in the Hunger Games series Katniss Everdeen is put back into the Hunger Games and is challenged with the third Qaurter Quell(every twenty-fifth hunger games has an extreme challenge). As shes preparing for her wedding with Peeta she has to worry about her old friend Gale. This hunger games has a very crazy twist, the Arena is in the shape of a clock of horrors. Each hour has its own horrifieing disaster from a giant tidal wave to evil orange monkeys. Read the awesomeness to figure out how awesome it is.
Review by monkeyman777 (LibraryThing), October 11, 2011 I feel cheated. The only reason I picked up Hunger Games in the first place was because it was being made into a movie and I wanted to jump on the band wagon. I completely fell in love with that book. The characters felt so natural, the drama felt so real. I devoured the book in a day. Same with Catching Fire. I put Mockingjay on reserve at my local library. I just couldn't get enough. I waited for 8 weeks to read this book, and I feel cheated. The beginning of this book pretty much leaves off where Catching Fire ended. Pretty much everyone's made it to district 13, except for Peeta. The first hundred pages or so is just military stuff. Which isn't my cup of tea but it had to happen so okay. They are trying to figure out how to over throw Snow, trying to figure out how to get Peeta and the other "Game" contestants to district 13. Peeta is tortured while held in the capitol. When they do rescue him he is a totally different person. Katniss is always mad at Gale, Peeta hates her. There is really nothing holding me to the story now, but I finish any ways. It can only get better right? It wasn't a total let down, but there were people that died that I thought could have been left alone. And the end is what killed me. We get a one page epilogue as a happily ever after. I was pretty upset. Oh well. I'm glad I read it, but it still make me mad.
Review by TheBloggingBook (LibraryThing), October 4, 2011 The final installation of The Hunger Games does not disappoint. We have followed Katniss and Peeta through the Games twice. Now things are taken to a new level when Katniss is thrust into the war arena. This is a fast-paced ending and the pages will just fly by. You will find yourself in an emotional rollercoaster along with the twists and turns our characters face.
Review by Joles (LibraryThing), September 25, 2011 A dark, thought-provoking ending to the series! My only real criticism is that the ending seemed rather rushed. I would have liked more detail.
Review by actonbell (LibraryThing), September 25, 2011 The war with the Capitol has begun! Katniss is front and center as usual, this time as a sort of mascot for the rebellion. As she reunites with her prep team and frets over Peeta’s safety, the lines between the Capitol and District 13 start to blur. Though there are no Hunger Games this time around, this unflinching and horrifying war story more than makes up for it in terms of violence. The awkwardly forced romance that bored and exasperated me when reading Catching Fire is all but gone here, overshadowed by far more pressing issues. In fact, were it not for Gale’s constant harping on whom Katniss will choose, the whole thing may have been moot. And though there were plenty of shocking and heart-breaking moments, the ending was one of hope. My favorite character is probably Haymitch, bastard that he is, though I've always had a soft spot for Buttercup that only strengthened through this last installment of the series. This is definitely a trilogy I’ll be rereading at some point. I love the characters, but I’m also fascinated by how uncertain Katniss (and thus the reader) is about whom to trust. This is part of what draws me to dystopia stories in general, actually: how else but through misinformation does an entire population become so well-controlled?
Review by melydia (LibraryThing), September 24, 2011 A fitting final installment to a great book series! Don't miss the hunger games trilogy! Especially if you're into Orwellian kind of literature...
Review by kousouna (LibraryThing), September 16, 2011 Blood. Fighting. Bombs. Violence. Death. Never trust who you think you can, because everything and everyone is deadly. This…Means…War!! The last and final book of the Hunger Games series is where the showdown happens. The war between the Capitol and District 13 ends here. The winner is determined, either the slaves of the districts or the high ranking officials in the Capitol. If you love gore, fighting, hatred, and even a bit of romance, this book is perfect for you! This book is extremely intense and compares to absolutely no other book that I have ever read! The Mocking Jay is filled with magnificent writing, fabulous meaty paragraphs and much, much more! The book Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins is a fast paced, riveting book that will have you jumping out of your seat! If you read the first two books, you would know that living in one of the twelve districts in Panem, controlled by the Capitol, is Hell on Earth. That’s how it was for Katniss Everdeen and her family, who used to live in an old, small, run down shack in district twelve. Katniss’ father taught her how to hunt, before he got blown to shreds, in a mine incident. And with her father gone, her mother became completely useless (that is until Katniss got thrown into the arena for the first time) and Katniss decided to pretend that she was not her mother‘s daughter. Now, it was up to Katniss to hunt and get her family food. Katniss was extraordinarily gifted at hunting, and that is how Katniss Everdeen escaped the Hunger Games. Not once, but twice she made it out of the arenas alive! And because of winning the games, she became rich and famous, and her family got moved into a special house for only victors of The Hunger Games. However, her problems were just beginning. The start of this book begins with a bang! However, some parts of the story start to fade. I found myself reading even more slowly, as the book started to progress. Then all of a sudden out of no where my hands started flipping through the pages again! Quite a few parts of this book are dull, but there are some parts where you just can’t put the book down! I really liked this book because of some of the elements Suzanne put in there, like characterization and the setting. I could see just about everything going on in my mind and I imagined myself inside of the situation. I was running down the stairs into the underground bunker with everyone else in the hidden district thirteen so that the Capitol’s bombs wouldn’t hurt us. I felt as if I was apart of the action, and I could see as Katniss’ friends as my own. I could feel the characters’ emotions, and think their thoughts as well. This book has magnificent dialogue and is a great piece of action! One thing I really enjoyed about this book, is when Suzanne Collins makes Katniss explode and unleash her anger, because she can’t hold herself back anymore. The characterization is so great that it leads to fights, drama, and lots more! One I really enjoyed was: “…Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. “Well you’re a piece of work, aren’t you?” Haymitch doesn’t protest when I walk out…” I really did enjoy reading this book, even though some parts weren’t that interesting. Suzanne Collins made this book seem realistic in many different ways. Overall, I would have to rate this book a 4 out of 5 stars. I rated this book a 4 of 5 stars, because I really liked the book, but some parts weren’t too great. This book was truly a work of art and I hope that you read it and find it as entertaining as I did!
Review by ctmsjasa (LibraryThing), September 11, 2011 I will miss reading about the rest of your lives. Happiness to you all in your brave new world.
Review by MrsMich02 (LibraryThing), September 9, 2011 An excellent YA series although there is much violence but also morality situations to address and discuss. Adults should read this series. I am probably one of the few not looking forward to the movie and will probably try to avoid seeing it.
Review by bacreads (LibraryThing), September 5, 2011 Mocking Jay was ok... i did not like the ending and might reconmend it to others Mocking Jay seemed different from the others i just read it because the other ones before it were good in all it was ok
Review by 3mabudachi (LibraryThing), August 29, 2011 If you haven't read book one or two don't read further. Please, for your own health, DON'T DO IT! IT WILL RUIN THEM FOR YOU! So, Katniss was rescued from the arena. And now she is leading the rebellion. And stuff happens. Awesome stuff. Though i didn't love this book as much as the previous two, it is a must read, in my opinion. The writing. The writing, once again, flows smoothly and amazingly. Though i actually have to say i like the writing in The Hunger Games or Catching Fire better than Mockingjay. I don't know why really, but in this book it just seemed...different than the others. So, characters. I love them. They are all unique and awesome and each and every single death in this book makes you sad. (And no thats not a spoiler. Face it. Its the Hunger Games. Death is inevitable.) Though some characters may piss you off and make you angry and make you want to rip their faces off and feed them to mutts.... Anyways... Well, you still love them. I will forever love Katniss, even if in this book she had a few moments that were just... not Katniss-like in my opinion. My biggest complaint about Mockingjay was the story. It really was different than the other two books and I didn't like it as much. It seemed kind of rushed and just... it just wasn't as great as the other two. So, anyways, it is all over. The sadness is overwhelming and I will unfortunetly have to move on. Sad face... Anyways, there are plety of other books you might like if you like the Hunger Games Trilogy. The Maze Runner By James Daschner and Unwind By Neil Shusterman. They are both fantastic books. Oh, and if you haven't read the first two books in this series, Catching Fire or The Hunger Games, make sure you go and buy them NOW!! They are so good! WHat are you doing still reading this! GO BUT THIS WONDERFUL SERIES YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review by kreagsheehan (LibraryThing), August 27, 2011 An amazing ending to one of the most spellbinding trilogies I have ever read!
Review by M00nlitDreams (LibraryThing), August 18, 2011 I feel a little disingenuous disliking Mockingjay when it addresses so many of the issues I had with Catching Fire, the second installment of the The Hunger Games trilogy. I thought the return of the Hunger Games format was too stale? It’s gone as the rebellion launches full. I thought there was no world-building in Catching Fire? Here’s the intricacies of District 13, the secret underground district. The problem with all this is that Suzanne Collins corrects so far in the other direction as to encounter new storytelling pitfalls. I thought Peeta was too static a character? Well, here’s him undergoing mental torture and completely changing his personality. Gale had no personality to speak of? He gets a whole arc about finding his purpose. Though I that Catching Fire was boring and uneventful? Here’s Mockingjay with its breakneck pace and relentless action, culminating in a long action sequence near the end that on its own is worthy of being adapted into Michael Bay’s next blockbuster (this is not a compliment). It’s not all bad. Katniss regains some more proactive power. And I certainly enjoyed the parts of the story that went back to examining the greatest power in her arsenal—the power of audience—now as a symbol of open rebellion against the Capital rather the secret subversion of before. There’s just too much other stuff creating noise in Mockingjay. It frequently feels like it has enough plot for two books, and as the result, long stretches of the book feel clipped and unexamined to cram it all in. The laughable number of times Katniss passes out and wakes up in the med ward alone is a symbol of how poorly the plot is developed, not to mention, incredibly frustrating. Also contributing to the bloat? A large of cast of new and old less-than-supporting characters who appear very obviously to serve only as canon fodder. I will say that although she comes close to losing the entire thread of her message at several low points for the narrative (the nadir of which is the Michael-Bay-esque portion I mentioned above), Suzanne Collins does manage to pull it back in for the end, for a serviceable, though definitely not triumphant ending for the series. The Hunger Games, sadly, will go down as one of those series where I wished I had stopped after the first book, the sequels serving to show Collins’s failure to satisfactorily answer the questions she’d raised.
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