Excellent seque from "Catching Fire" Book 2 to this book. The star shined more than ever. I died waiting for Mockingjay to hit the stores. As with previous books in this series, the people, places and things were described so clearly. Author supported one's imagination. The book kept me on the edge of my seat......until....... the end at which time I regretted reading the entire series. You'll have to determine for yourself
Review by Chandra-of-Red (LibraryThing), January 3, 2011 Not as good as the first two, in my opinion. Some things were just too conveniently wrapped up - more pages would have helped. I still enjoyed the series as a whole, but my opinions of the characters have changed. Katniss almost felt bipolar in some of her behavior, and I wish Gale had handled some things better. Peeta got the roughest treatment, but I sill really like him. Some things could have used some more explaining, and the ending felt rushed after all the detail taken with other parts of the story. A decent ending to a great series.
Review by VivalaErin (LibraryThing), January 2, 2011 Collins was able to uphold the quality of writing throughout the entire Hunger Games series. The book was exciting and came to a reasonable conclusion.
Review by kikotomo (LibraryThing), January 1, 2011 Because of the mass reviews already posted, I'll make my own rather short. I wasn't a fan of the concluding story in the trilogy. The writing was well done in Mockingjay, and kept with the tone and themes of the previous books in the series, so I couldn't fault the story too much. My eventual feelings about the book were based on my own dislike of drawn-out fight scenes, frustrations over the build up in the action, and annoyance with the conclusion. While there were hints of what came about, I felt frustrated and a little manipulated. Was that the point, that maybe Katniss also felt manipulated? Yes, I'm sure. For me, I felt that taking that road diminished my reading, but that's just my opinion. Although I didn't end up liking the conclusion to the series, I know that many readers consider it the culmination of one of their all-time favorite series. I definitely liked these books and really enjoyed Catching Fire, but just wasn't over the moon with the ending.
Review by mjmbecky (LibraryThing), December 26, 2010 I think this book really helps develop the relationship between Katniss and Peeta. It also develops the relationship between Gale and Katniss, helping you decide which 'team' you as a reader would like to be on!
Review by emmafail (LibraryThing), December 22, 2010 Another well written book!
Review by mannperkins (LibraryThing), December 21, 2010 Title: Mockingjay Author: Suzanne Collins Publisher: Scholastic Format: Hardback Length: 400pgs Rating: 3/5 I'm just going to warn you now, this review will contain spoilers. So if you haven't read The Hunger Games or Catching Fire I would skip today's review. If you decide against it... I tried to mark everywhere that I say something that may ruin it for you. Mockingjay picks up right where Catching Fire leaves off. Katniss is in District 13 - alive and surviving, albeit they're underground. The director of District 13 is training it's members with the desire to strike back at the capitol, and they want Katniss to be the figurehead. Katniss is hesitant to join in, she had already been used by President Snow, and she lost Peeta. When she sees Peeta on the television speaking for the Capitol, she agrees to help District 13 because she wants to save Peeta from the Capitol's clutches. This was an only okay ending, for me at least, to The Hunger Games trilogy. After all the build-up to the end it just didn't deliver in my opinion. Katniss is still as awesome in her baddassery as always. She's a very strong female lead, which is great. I guess I was getting a little tired of her indecision. For me it was one of those things where I felt the worst had already happened to her, so it was hard for me to think the conditions she was in were really that terrible. Then there's Peeta, who was not nearly in the novel as much as I had hoped. I can say *spoiler* that I was honestly surprised to see him be conditioned against Katniss. I figured they were torturing him, but to find out that he honestly believed that Katniss was evil was a great twist. Peeta is one of those characters that are hard to hate. He's selfless and really just wants to take care of Katniss. Lastly there's Gale. I liked him for awhile, and then in this book I just really started to hate him. He's a very angry person - which in this world it's justified, but there's just something about him that annoys me. It's one of those situations that I felt he loved the fight more than Katniss, *spoiler* which ends up being true. *spoilers* In the end everything ends up "happy" or as happy as it can be with that sort of scar in their history. The plot itself is okay, but it wasn't as action packed as I had expected. There was a lot of buildup for the climax at the end, and for me it really wasn't all that explosive. It sort of just ended. The story feels complete, but in the end it feels cheesy too. The epilogue... is less than desired. Katniss and Peeta end up together, married, and with kids. First, I expected them to end up together, and I'm not shocked by the marriage. It was the kids that did me in. I feel that no matter what Katniss wouldn't have had children, even if it's stated that it was because Peeta really wanted them. I understood the symbolism that her having kids was the metaphor of "turning a new page" - showing that the world wasn't the same anymore... but it just sort of felt fake to me. While the last installment wasn't perfect, for me at least, I still encourage you to pick up the series. I absolutely loved The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. They're fast-paced and action packed.
Review by xtastethesky (LibraryThing), December 19, 2010 Katniss has been rescued from the quarter quell and taken to district 13 to train and to fight the capital.
Review by Drew52 (LibraryThing), December 16, 2010 Final book in trilogy - 2 thumbs up. Trying to minimize spoilers here...let's see -- The rebellion is in full swing and those who saved 17-yr-old Katniss and a few others are complex characters; some are obviously on her side, some may be on her side, and some just want power for themselves - but what does that mean for Katniss's and society's future? This was full of action, psychological and emotional turmoil, friends and foes, and an especially twisted full-circle occurrence (Book 1 and platform for series: Katniss volunteered for the Hunger Games to save someone and her friend Gale promises to watch over them -in Book 3: full-circle occurrence). I admired the ending, it wasn't perfect, like a Hollywood movie and neither was it inconclusive - it just was, like reality. I highly recommend this series, regardless of your age.
Review by jlparent (LibraryThing), December 16, 2010 Mockingjay continues Katniss’s rebellious journey of mistrust, denial, and leadership. In the beginning, Katniss suffers from the posttraumatic stresses from the Hunger Games and shuts herself from her duties as the “Mockingjay”, or iconic leader for the rebellion that has spread across the thirteen districts. 254/390
Review by uyenthy22 (LibraryThing), December 16, 2010 The novel, Mockingjay, ends the sequel of the Hunger Games; in this book, the hunger games have ended, but Distrit 12, home of Katniss and her family and friends, have been bombed. Throughout the middle, Katniss tries to find ways to get back Peeta; when she does, she finds ways to bring down Snow, the leader of the capitol, to end the wars and poverty that all the districts are going to. Not only that, but she deals with her confused love between Peeta, the one who has loved and protected her, and Gale, the own who tried to help and comfort Katniss, but ended up killing her love ones. By the end, people get taken down in unsuspecting ways, and Katniss chooses to live her life with Peeta. This decision seems interesting because Katniss does not seem to feel love towards one over the other, however, because of what Gale did, Peeta seemed like the right choice for her to make. (390/ 390)
Review by diana22 (LibraryThing), December 15, 2010 The novel, the Mockingjay, encompasses the theme that, as evil is dethroned, only a another evil may take its place. In the beginning, Katniss, struggles with the fact that her fiancée and good friends are under the captive control of the capital, along with the fact that she currently leads a full scale uprising against the dominant capital city. Throughout the middle, she perseveres in both a psychical and mental fashion facing the war that so many have pleaded for ever so long. By the end, Katniss has finally realized that as the evil, President Snow, is dethroned, another evil, Coin, will take its place, so therefore she kills both of them, freeing Panem of its bonds forever. (pages 390/390)
Review by Cyamac (LibraryThing), December 15, 2010 And so it ends. In this, the third and final novel in the Hunger Games trilogy, I think Collins cheats a little with her narration, not quite knowing how to write a war, and the effect is an incredibly fragmented narrative provided by a traumatised anti-heroine (and why wouldn't she be?). But Collins scores points on having no mercy; like JK Rowling, she does not hesitate in killing off favourite characters in the heat of battle just because her readers are kiddies. She doesn't resort to a lame mind trick (ahem) to avoid bloodshed. So while Collins might struggle a little with writing the details of a real war, she doesn't flinch away from showing its effects. This series is far from perfect but it's definitely more interesting than most YA offerings out there, and it would certainly provoke really interesting classroom and juvenile book club discussions...plus now I can daydream about putting Katniss Everdeen in an arena with Bella Swan...
Review by LadyHax (LibraryThing), December 15, 2010 If I had to sum this book up in one word it would be confusion. Firstly, prior to reading this book I was confused as to why the reviews of this book were so black and white, with the people who completely loved this book and were happy with the outcome or with the people who are completely disappointed by this book and almost feel as if it almost wrecked the series for them. Having read it, If found that many of the characters experienced confusion within the story, take Katniss, for instance, and her concussion which makes it difficult for her to concentrate for long periods of time, or Peeta, who was tortured greatly and as a result has an extremely difficult time separating fact from fiction, or Finaeous, who completely loses himself to a confused state when he mourns for the women that he loves and he believes to be in the clutches of evil. The first half of the book I enjoyed quite a bit and was totally like, "What are those haters going on about? This book is great!" But then all of a sudden it completely changed and I felt myself liking the book less and less. Overall, I am just confused about what actually happens in this book/ why it does and I can understand why many people take the latter side, that they are disappointed with the outcome of the book (and I swear that this isn’t just my over critical/ hard-ass side coming out, I seriously am confused by this book). When reading this book, like the others, I had no idea who Katniss was going to choose, her best friend of many years, Gale, or Peeta, the boy who did everything in his power to protect her no matter the cost to himself. And as previously mentioned in my other reviews of this series, I wasn't fully supporting/ rooting for one of the boys over the other, while absolutely hating the other (*cough, cough, my fully supporting Marc over Jace in Rachel Vincent's "Shifter's" series). I liked both of them almost the same (well, that is a tad white lie, I liked one boy just a fraction more than the other, just a fraction though- nothing major, I promise!), and I thought that I was going to be completely okay with who she picked in the end. But I am not. I just hate how she didn't actually choose which boy she wanted- she didn't have an option between the boys because the other boy just left her high and dry to go be some bigshot without her (Okay, maybe I am being a bit dramatic, he did leave her because he thought that she would never be able to forgive him for something that he didn't intentionally do, but heck, Katniss forgave the other boy for doing a lot worse of things- which he seemed to constantly be doing/ doing on purpose, so I am sure that she would have eventually forgave unintentional boy). And the boy that leaves her, well I guess it is kinda insinuated when I say "high and dry" that he never has any contact with her ever again... AND COME'ON!!! How can you just leave like that? Another thing that kinda bugged me was just how much of a beating Katniss took in this book. I mean, we start off with her having a concussion, then she gets a bummed knee, then we find out that she has huge scarring on her arm from an earlier incident, and then she gets shot and bruises all of her ribs, AND THEN SOMETHING MAJOR HAPPENS (DUN, DUN, DUN)... Well you get the point. I won't tell you what happens to her in the end, but it isn't pretty whatsoever and it just makes me mad. I mean, I am not saying that her life should be all flowers, rainbows, and unicorns, because if it was, she wouldn't be the person we have all grown to love, but can't the girl catch a break every now and then? And another thing? I friggin hate it when a character has a concussion or something mental going on where they can not fully concentrate/ zone in and out of reality, I find it makes it extremely difficult for me to determine what is actually going on (I think I ranted about this also in my review of "Betrayals" by Lili St. Crow).
Review by AverysBookNook (LibraryThing), December 14, 2010 I read Mockingjay back in August so I can't believe I'm just now getting to review it! Warning, don't read this if you haven't already read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. I can't promise not to spoil anything. In Mockingjay, Katniss finds herself in District 13, which isn't supposed to exist anymore. She learns that there is an underground army forming and she is expected to be the face of the revolt. They want her, the Mockingjay, to be their spokeswoman of sorts. She does the job but she has an agenda of her own, to kill President Snow. Mockingjay is full of action, just as the previous two books. The arena is gone and in it's place is the Capitol, just as nasty and full of traps as the arenas were. Katniss, Peeta, and Gail have to make their way through the Capitol to get to the President. It isn't easy. The book was good yet I felt something was missing. It didn't leave me with the insane love I felt when I read The Hunger Games. I am satisfied with the ending and the story but I wasn't blown away. I feel like Katniss was a little too whiny and broken. She hid in closets instead of facing what needed to be faced. Yes, she'd been through hell twice, but I wanted her to be stronger. I wanted her to be bold and not hide away. But that's only my opinion. The Hunger Games Trilogy is a great series and I encourage everyone to read the books. I'm so very glad I did and I look forward to whatever Suzanne Collins has coming out next.
Review by tipsister (LibraryThing), December 14, 2010 What a whilrlwind of events. Katniss Everdeen is not only the victim of the games, but from the entire Capitol as well. Designed for older readers, however an adventure that links Romeo and Juliet with undying urges to survive. AMAZING READ FOR 12 and above.
Review by firhetrick (LibraryThing), December 14, 2010 I don't see why people complain about the last book. How does one finish a series like the Hunger Games? With a happy ending as if all the suffering that Katniss has never happened? Mockingjay was the perfect way to finish a disturbing series and it was shocking to me, the end I mean. I was content.
Review by Kritik (LibraryThing), December 13, 2010 I dont quite know what all the people who hate this are talking about. It didnt have the same tension and horror of the first two but to my way of thinking this is the end of the story. It had to end somehow and it wasnt exactly a completely happy ending. I think Katniss stayed true to who she has been from when we first met her in the Hunger Games but with the crazy stress and guilt and pressure it's unsurprising that it might end as it did. In the end she was her heroic self. Im glad they gave her a peacefull and hopeful life in the end.
Review by TheKinuk (LibraryThing), December 12, 2010 This was a great book. I kind of liked and hated the ending at the same time though. I hated how short the ending was and it just cut you off, i felt like there was still more to the book, but i like how it ended too. I really don't know now you can end such a great series like that, so i think Suzanne Collins did a great job. I can't really think of words to describe this trilogy, but they are so intense and keep you interested all the way through. Read them.
Review by Abbigail4 (LibraryThing), December 12, 2010 Best book of the trilogy, though I think it would be tough going for middle schoolers, mostly because of the unrelentingly depressing and grim atmosphere and many unhappy events. However, I was very glad the author chose to create a believable ending for the trilogy rather than provide a sentimental and unrealistically rosy ending. The character of Katniss evolves more in this book than in the others and Peeta and Gale become more rounded characters as well, so the book has feeling of some depth and their fates really matter to the reader. A very fine ending to the trilogy and the best book of the set. I actually got up early to finish the book, which I can't remember doing in a very long time! Gripping right up to the very end.
Review by kishields (LibraryThing), December 12, 2010 I was slightly disappointed with the ending. I felt the rest of Katniss' life deserved more than a short chapter. However, this series is amazing and I still can't think of the words that could describe these books. Read them.
Review by lindseyrivers (LibraryThing), December 10, 2010 I have heard mixed reactions to Mockingjay but I LOVED it! I felt that Suzanne Collins gave just the right balance of intense action and raw emotion. I loved how I couldn't tell what was going to happen next, which kept me glued to the book. Like the other books in the series, Mockingjay is written in such a way that its feels more like watching a movie then reading a book. Katniss' need to rescue Peeta and destroy the Capital definitely drive the story. She is much more emotionally raw then we've ever seen her, but she's also just as brave and strong as ever. I loved that we got more Gale and Prim in this book as well as more time with the tributes from Catching Fire. I didn't mind that some of the characters were killed off, sure it made me sad, but it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book. My one and only complaint is that at the end of the book, certain characters didn't get much of an wrap to their storyline.
Review by ShaEliPar (LibraryThing), December 9, 2010 Slow start, still processing what I think of the ending.
Review by LynnSigman (LibraryThing), December 8, 2010 This was an outstanding ending!!! I am a huge fan of series books, and would love to read another book in this series. Having said that, I hope she does not write another book. It was the perfect ending, and despite the fact that I want to read more, it would probably just end messing it all up.
Review by pat1eiu (LibraryThing), December 8, 2010 Completely loved the trilogy and this was a great ending!
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