This is by far the best book in the series. In the first one, you were getting to know the characters, in the second, observing them, and know you know how Katniss reacts to different situations you are suprised by how she reacts to the ones in this book. I love the ending, and the pieces about her observations of Coin. This is a book for everyone. There's action, adventure, sci fi and romance all rolled in to one. Superb!
Review by _KiKi_1 (LibraryThing), November 7, 2010 Steadily loses steam before crashing headfirst into an insultingly unsatisfying conclusion.
Review by dracopet (LibraryThing), November 5, 2010 I've been waiting to read this book since the day it came out. It's been sitting on my shelf since August. I've been avoiding every little mention of Mockingjay. I've not read any reviews for fear of finding out how it ended. My husband even read the book before me but I made him swear that he would not give me one little hint on what was in this book. So when I went on vacation last week I took it with me. I started reading it on the drive to the beach. I told my husband and kids not to bother me unless they were bleeding or on fire. I was only half way joking. What did I think? I thought it was very well written and I was happy with the way it ended. It was a very intense series. I know some of you haven't read the series so I don't want to go into detail. I love this series! So if you haven't read it I recommend you put it on your TBR list. Well done Suzanne Collins. Well done.
Review by mt256 (LibraryThing), November 4, 2010 The outstanding conclusion for the famous Hunger Games Trilogy. This was one of the best of the bunch. Heart-wrenching twists and turns make me want to read more and more. Who will she choose? Peeta or Gale? Honestly, words cannot describe how amazing this book is and how captivating it's prequels were. Mockingjay made me crave more and more. As I was reading it, I dreaded the ending. I wanted to read more and more. I spent nights reading this book, and when I was done, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I think that the ending came too soon. I'm sure fans, like me, would want more. This is a must read for science fiction, romance, adventure and thriller fans. It has a little bit for everyone. Action, adventure, romance, science fiction and so much more. The ending left me craving more and more. I want to know what else happens. Outstanding job Suzanne Collins! This is a book and series that I would read over and over again, never getting tiered of it. Long live District 13!
Review by makalinao17740 (LibraryThing), November 4, 2010 The book was exhilarating, storming and ending the trilogy in a beautiful way that didn't ruin the story by ending it abruptly. Honestly, i felt that the book wasn't as dangerous and explosive as the other two books but more of a connective experience as you get to know more about Katniss. It's a marvelous book and I definitely recommend you to read it!
Review by gunawan_a_nan (LibraryThing), November 3, 2010 I like this book because it is fast-paced, interesting, it has lots of action and violence, and it portrays very believable characters and conflicts.
Review by champak256 (LibraryThing), November 3, 2010 Despite staying up late at night to read this book, I’m still not sure what to make of it. It’s not that I did not like it. I did, but then at times, I didn’t. Unlike the first two books I actually put this book down several times and left it to read something else. Perhaps because the overall tone of this book is very bleak, and Katniss has a very apathetic attitude and it’s not really until the end where she finally breaks out of her depressing rut. So reading through this book can be felt as a heavy duty chore. I would have to say however, I started to like Katniss despite her behaviour. She did a lot of growing up, and her development character-wise is very well done and accurate according to the situation and environment she’s surrounded in. Yet in some ways, I think it was a bit overdone in some parts and I couldn’t help but feel like I wanted to smack her sometimes. Character development overall in this novel is excellent. Peeta’s sudden change really got to me and I almost wanted to quit reading because he wasn’t the same and he was my favorite character. Still, it was well done and I thought the development of both Peeta and Katniss were the best I have ever seen in any novels I have read so far. The plot was good, however I’m not sure younger readers would be suited to read this. The level of violence is much higher than the first two books, and the ending has a particular scene where it’s especially horrifying to read. It actually shocked me as I never thought something like this would be in a young adult novel. There is a lot of action scenes in the book, particularly towards the end where the story reaches a breaking point. What did bother me a little was the sudden abrupt outcomes of certain characters in the book. It was like as if the author just wanted to quickly tie some loose ends and it did seem like it was a rush job. Upon finishing the book, it left me feeling subdued. I liked it, but I didn’t. I know I should not have expected a happy ending considering the bleak subject matter of this series but perhaps I expected a lot more to happen. It definitely was not what I expected. That being said though, the ending was all right perhaps I wanted just a little bit more. It was a pleasure reading this fantastic series and I have no regrets.
Review by sensitivemuse (LibraryThing), November 3, 2010 Mockingjay is the action packed third book in the Hunger Games trilogy. The end of each chapter brought on a new twist, and I couldn't put the book down. I reccomend this to anyone, although you have to read the first two to understand Mockingjay.
Review by raginisharma (LibraryThing), November 3, 2010 Mockingjay ends the series with a great action packed story. The book, as always, shows Suzanne Collins great craft that can hook any reader into her worlds.
Review by Junlibrary (LibraryThing), November 3, 2010 i was in shock when i finished reading mockingjay.. not with how the story ended but with the events leading up to the end. panem is at war and katniss everdeen, who was whisked away to district 13 at the end of catching fire, reluctantly became the symbol of the districts' rebellion against the capitol. this book was way more intense than the first two, even disturbing at times. suzanne collins did an excellent job of portraying the bleakness and desperation of a country at war; conflict, death, carnage - nothing was sugar-coated and the graphic descriptions made me flinch a couple of times. katniss' feelings about being the face of the rebellion and her personal turmoil over her family and friends were interspersed with gripping action ensuring that the story doesn't become boring or too drawn out. also, the characters were all fleshed out with everyone having their own motivations as to why they want to bring the capitol down, their thoughts and actions sometimes blurring the lines between right and wrong. of course, there's the question of peeta vs. gale and it does get answered but there were no cheesy declarations of love and devotion. i liked that the resolution to this "love triangle" kept up with the reality of the story rather than giving in to the temptation of upping the "cutesy" factor for the sake of the screaming fangirls (like me). if i could describe mockingjay in one word, i'd say it's grim. i felt absolutely shattered at the end when it turned out katniss' reason for joining the hunger games in the first place was for nothing. so were they able to defeat the capitol? who won? i won't spoil that part but suzanne collins sure did a fine job in reminding everyone that in war, there are no winners.
Review by jinkay (LibraryThing), November 3, 2010 A gripping end to an excellent trilogy. This was my favorite book of the three in the series and I am sorry to see the series come to an end.
Review by karen813 (LibraryThing), November 2, 2010 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins is the final book of The Hunger Games trilogy. Katniss Everdeen, the angry seventeen year-old from the previous two books, is the reluctant rebel Mockingjay, the symbol of the 13 Districts' rebellion against the Capitol. She has two agendas: keep her family safe from the war and kill Snow, the president of the Capitol. While Katniss wants to go to war and fight with the rebels, she finds herself in make-up and costumes for the rebellion's television propaganda against the Capitol. It is then she realizes how much of a pawn she is for the rebels, just as she was for the Capitol. Katniss leads a small band of rebels to the Capital in the last attack, and it is here that we truly see how little the Capital values human life. It is a deadly game played through the streets of the city as waves of acid come washing through streets, mutts (part human, part animal) chase them through the sewers, and all the while Capital citizens are being killed in the fray. As the violent war comes to an end, Katniss’s expectations of truth are tested. Themes of freedom, love, and personal growth are interplayed with the harsh reality of war. This book is extremely suspenseful. A must-have-- it's the finale, after all-- for ages 14 and up, due to political situations and brutal violence. However, it’s not a stand-alone; it must be read after the other two or it will not make sense. This was not my favorite of the trilogy, but I’m glad I read it, and I am satisfied with the end.
Review by DWMSLibrarian (LibraryThing), October 30, 2010 Mockingjay is the third book in The Hunger Games Series. The Hunger Games refer to a yearly reality-TV show which is held in the future, in a world where America has collapsed and been replaced by a dysfunctional society. The capital district (in what was Colorado) of the society quashed an earlier rebellion by the outlying 13 districts in an earlier war, and ever since the losers have been subservient to the capitol district. To prove their ongoing subservience, these outlying districts must provide two tributes to the capital each year - one young man, and one young woman. The tributes from all the districts are put in an arena and forced to kill each other in a televised "game". The plot revolves around a teenager called Katniss who was the winner of the previous year's Hunger Games. Because of her actions in the games, she is considered either a traitor or a symbol of the rebellion against the status quo, and Katniss has to decide where she stands and who she loves. I don't want to give away more than this, because there are many twists in the story, but it is great to spend more time with Katniss, Peeta, Gale, Prim and the rest of the interesting characters that they encounter.
Review by cmwilson101 (LibraryThing), October 30, 2010 *** SPOILERS AHEAD *** I’m not even going to try to discuss this without spoilers. So consider yourself warned! First of all, I really liked the book. I found it to be a mostly satisfying conclusion to the series. In some ways, I found it more engrossing than Catching Fire, which was mostly a rehash of Hunger Games. But what I really want to discuss is Katniss. A lot of people read this book and immediately hated what Collins did with Katniss. They felt like she changed Katniss into someone weak who just waited for things to happen to her instead of taking charge. I have to say that I disagree! I guess I’ve always felt that Katniss was an emotionally immature character, and was often having her strings pulled by other people — she just didn’t realize it. When the bodies started piling up, she just wasn’t emotionally mature enough to handle it. I think the only decision she made in the whole series that was truly hers was the decision to step up and take Prim’s place. Other than that, she was always someone’s pawn in the game. An extremely effective pawn, but a pawn, nonetheless. I think that most of the time, her independence was an illusion. That’s not to say the book was perfect. My main complaint was the pacing. I think we spent way too much time in 13 and not nearly enough time in the Capitol. The ending was horribly rushed, with Katniss’s trial and banishment just glossed over. I would have loved a better, slower exposure of 13 being just like the Capitol. Especially the part about Coin wanting another Hunger Games. That’s taken care of in about 4 pages, and it needed to have more impact than that. Overall, I wasn’t at all surprised by how Katniss ended up at the end. After 3 books of people manipulating her, a mental break was not completely unexpected.
Review by miyurose (LibraryThing), October 29, 2010 Mockingjay is about a young girl named Katniss Everdeen. She has survived two blood baths in the Capitol. The city that control the twelve districts. In this book the twelve districts revolt and many lives are about to be lost. They are about to lead a revolution of great consequence. And that either they go down fighting or they win the battle.
Review by Mad_Martel (LibraryThing), October 28, 2010 I anxiously awaited this final book in The Hunger Games Trilogy. Suzanne Collins' futuristic world where children are chosen by lottery to fight till the death on live TV is engaging, haunting, dark and disturbing all at the same time. In this third book, Katniss is once again the face of the rebellion- something she does not want to be, but realizes the importance of the role she plays. I was surprised by the roles Peeta and Gale were given; Collins created even more tension between the main characters and kept me turning the pages to find out who would eventually win Katniss' heart- if, indeed, anyone could. The brutality that is "war" was explored at great length. Also given much emphasis was the loss that war inevitably creates. This book was intense in plot, characterization and message. I was eventually resigned to the ending, although I didn't want the trilogy to end at all. I have never been a big fan of Sci-Fi or Fantasy, but I was completely captivated by the series and have enjoyed discussing it with my students. The Hunger Games Trilogy is suitable for ages 11-adult.
Review by ranaemathias (LibraryThing), October 27, 2010 totally un-putdownable. love this series.
Review by Milda-TX (LibraryThing), October 27, 2010 Enough already: By this time I'm tired of everything being cast into "the Games" even when it's not. Viewing the Capitol as just another Arena, with traps and tricks, was just one step too much. And I also got tired of Katniss' suspicious and negative attitude toward everyone, even her old friends. The author even had to destroy Peeta to make even that relationship a source of suspicion. I think the gruesome violence, which was acceptable in the first book, a bit too much in the second, went beyond what was needed in this book. On the other hand, I was glad to see a little more of life in places outside District 12. The book, although slow in spots, kept me interested enough to want to know what happens next. I think the series, as a whole, is effective in showing the negative effects of violence on all involved - both victims and perpetrators - and that there may be aspects that are simply beyond healing, even in the long run.
Review by TerriBooks (LibraryThing), October 24, 2010 A little too much telling instead of showing, especially at the end but overall, a satisfying end to the series.
Review by cms519 (LibraryThing), October 20, 2010 Loved it! Great series. Never a dull moment. Couldn't put it down.
Review by TammyPhillips (LibraryThing), October 20, 2010 Before reading this book I'd heard some bad things. But now that I've read it I don't know what anyone was talking about. It was excellent! Though the plot was very different from the previous two books, Katniss's voice was just as engaging. I actually liked the change in scenerey and felt that this book was more "real". I liked the ending, it was very satisfying, if a little surprising.
Review by mdtwilighter (LibraryThing), October 18, 2010 The problem with a good cliche is that it’s still just a cliche. No matter how hot the rebels, no matter how touching the cause, literature imitating coup will always be rehashed art imitating rehashed life. Now, perhaps this tedium warrants regurgitation as we seem not to ever have learned from one rebellion to the next. After all, it’s not like Panem is a futuristic term, right?* Worn out cliches aside, the third third of the trilogy ended in the way any highly emotional series ends: terribly. Ok, I don’t mean that the book or even the ending, were actually awful but rather that I simply didn’t want the story to come to a close. Be that as it may, end it did to the pleasure of some but the sure disappointment of others. As usual, I find myself at a loss for words with which to write complete review as I need so desperately to break out of coded euphemisms. I think that to elaborate without illuminating the earth shattering bits is to answer my true concerns, any way. My biggest issue, as mentioned before, is the rehashing (yes, irony is funny). For the most part, the third book brought struggles between The Capital and Panem that hammered home a very literal, bloody war, we’d already seen in Orwellian overtones in the previous two chapters. For me, the point of commentary, especially dystopian angst, is to paint a picture, not to whack a reader upside the head with something she’s seen for six hundred plus pages, prior. The beauty of The Hunger Games and Catching Fire was in the shockingly provocative pokes to be made at conflict and war without having to say “Oh, ho hum, war is terrible and people die”. The class, culture, education and industry interwoven through the entire history of Panem, tell a tale we know and live in history books, daily life and our future incarnations. To say that these issues were only discussed in Mockingjay is to completely miss the point(s) of the first and second books. Ah, but, this isn’t a praise of the first two books as much as it is simply an expression of mild disappointment in the blatantly literal and overly lucid wind down of an otherwise brilliant play on politics and prose. They can’t all get it “right”, I suppose. All political, dystopian commentaries are equal; some are simply more equal than others. *”Bread and Circuses” (Panem et Circenses, anyone?) was the idiot-proof, fool pleasing blue print used by the original Capital back in 122. The entertainment value in tossing the poor and trainable to wild beasts, other young folk with weapons and death by elements was hardly first conceived of for a mythical reality show. Just another way to placate the masses, the Roman gladiator arena (hey, where have I recently seen that word?) creepily mirrors Collins’ twists and turns through the Panem trilogy.
Review by iwriteinbooks (LibraryThing), October 17, 2010 I am probably going to differ than others on my review of this book. The long-anticipated final book in the Hunger Games series left me feeling awful. It was an incredibly unsatisfying ending. Too many people die, there is no resolution over Coin and her leadership or even why Katniss did what she did in the end. (I don't want to give anything away.) I appreciate the author's efforts in ending a difficult series, but I didn't enjoy the book at all.
Review by hobbitprincess (LibraryThing), October 17, 2010 Well, I am not sure if this or the first book is better. What a great series! I would encourage anyone who is the slights bit interested in action adventur to read this. If you are into fighting for justice...read this. If you want to just escape for a while...read all three.
Review by McFeeley (LibraryThing), October 14, 2010 A great ending to the Hunger Games trilogy. It was well worth the wait. My only complaint was that there was too much Gale and too little Peeta. However, I understand the reasoning.
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