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Mockingjay (Hunger Games Trilogy, Book 3)

Mockingjay (Hunger Games Trilogy, Book 3)

bySuzanne Collins
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Anonymous
5.0 out of 5 starsWOW
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2010
EDITED below to add my comments in response to another review as requested by comments here.

The most powerful book in the series, Collins dives straight in to the realities of rebellion and war. At times hard to read, Mockingjay unflinchingly portrays war as it is... characters fighting over how far is to far in war, loss of innocence and innocent lives, knowing which side you are fighting for, along with the role media propaganda plays. Collins set out to tell kids in a way they can understand, the realities of war behind the images we see on TV. She succeeded... and even more so she succeeded without a particular left or right wing slant to the book, which is rare for these types of works. It is dark for YA, but it is also real and in that reality is it's value as a read for teens, who in 5 or less years could be on frontlines themselves.

What makes this book so powerful is the characters that Collins creates. Over the course of the 3 books you grow to know and love them, so seeing bad things happen to them, or them make bad decisions or grow apart hurts. But this speaks to the mastery of the work. If it wasn't so good, you wouldn't care so much. In a story about war the relationships will be tested, people will be lost, and yes, people will be broken. It could not have been any different and still be the story about the realities of war that Collins wanted to tell.

Highly recommend this entire series.

***************** Below my comments in response to Suzanne G's great review (link below): *****************
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1R6D1DAM9L0ZF/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg2?ie=UTF8&asin=0439023513&cdForum=Fx229UU4T33F95N&cdPage=2&cdThread=Tx2F3UH15I2LUG3&store=books#wasThisHelpful

I think your review is one of the most coherent and thoughtful of the negative reviews, but I still can't bring myself to agree entirely with it.

One of the more minor reasons is your use of the phrase "anti-war." This book is anything but anti-war. It is clearly laid out in the two preceding books all the reasons there must be a war, that war is the only option. Life in Panem is greatly improved after the war. A true anti-war piece of literature would have found other options besides war, or would have made post war life bleaker as a result of war. I think to reduce the message to "anti-war" or "war is awful" cheapens it.

Instead this book examines the realities of war, not just that war is awful but things such as the moral relativism that occurs in times of war. Gale's idea for the nut is a great example of this. For me this is where Gale crossed the line, but it could also be equally well argued that the Nut had to be either captured or destroyed for the rebels to ever win the war and since capture was impossible, Gale's plan was the only way to prevent further loss of lives and protect against the Capitol's rule. You can see this as well in the argument of the double bomb when Katniss is questioning Beetee and Gale about "playing from the Capitol's handbook" (at what point do we become the evil we fight against), but you also see her rationalizing it post-argument and wondering why she is so against it if it can defeat the Capitol. You made a comment about there being too much talk of strategy but I think in the strategy discussions is where you saw so much revealing info about who Katniss was and why, why Coin wasn't the solution, and why Katniss and Gale couldn't be together.

The dynamic between Gale and Katniss is so interesting in this book because they have such different perspectives upon entering the war. One of the reasons Katniss is so impotent for part of this book (drugged, hiding, crying) is because she is terrified to make any decision at all. This is well in line with what I would expect of any character who had every decision she made in HG and CF backfire to unintended consequences that only hurt those around her. This puts her in stark contrast to her longtime friend, Gale who is not afraid of making tough decisions but has never had to live with the results of them (until the end of MJ).

Gale has had to fight hard for the survival of his family, he has been forced to work in the mines he hates, been beaten and whipped. He has had to watch as the girl he loved fell for another because of the Capitol's games. Yet he has never been given the opportunity to know any Capitol people closely or to truly fight back and likewise has never had to feel the ramifications (particularly as they affect others) of his actions against them.

Katniss, on the other hand, has had the opportunity to know what it is like after you kill. She understands the ramifications of her actions. She knows that your actions don't always bring about the intended consequences. She has had the chance to know, and come to care for people in the Capitol, thus humanizing her enemy. You said something about Katniss being in no position to judge Gale, but I never thought she was judging him. She understood his decisions even when she didn't agree with them (and found herself wondering why she didn't agree). I think she would have made the same decisions as Gale had she not had the experiences she had, that led her to understand things Gale could not (such as how it felt having to live with those tough decisions). But she did have those experiences, and having had them she couldn't ignore them.

You said in one of your comments that you expected to see the bond between Gale and Katniss, and I think that bond was there in the way they felt comfortable challenging one another (something they had always done and that Katniss didn't do with those who didn't have her trust) and in Gale's knowledge of how Katniss worked. But here is a relationship that was built from day 1 on survival of their families, where they always differed in their extremeness against the Capitol (Gale always being the more vocal, more extreme). And now they are placed in an environment where food and daily survival are a given for their families (who are not actively engaged in the rebellion, and are receiving food and care regardless of if Gale and Katniss provide it), and where the battle against the Capitol is their primary concern. So their reasons for being together are less, and the things that separate them are more noticeable, all their tender moments together are based on past memories, not current feelings. In battle they are partners, because that's what they've always been, partners protecting each others backs. But when Katniss needs someone she seeks out Finnick or Haymitch, because they (having experienced what she has) will get it. Here again is where I think Gale and Katniss were always a tragic love story. Because, if not for Katniss' time in the arena, they may have grown to love each other equally over the years in district 12, but they still couldn't have been together because without the time in the games and the rebellion, Katniss (firm in her decision to never marry or have children) would have never allowed herself to succumb to the love and actually be with Gale.

Another complaint of yours, I think, was the treatment of Peeta and that Katniss barely fought for him. One, I think the fact that Peeta was hijacked (while making the book harder to read because it contained less of the tender moments from the previous 2) was what made Katniss truly come to appreciate Peeta. It gave her the opportunity to want the Peeta she had so often taken for granted and we see this in Katniss' feelings as they travel on their mission throughout the Capitol. Two, As far as why she didn't fight harder to get him back... well Katniss wasn't the most emotionally self-aware person. In HG on the train back to 12 she breaks Peeta's heart. And in the beginning of CF we find her wanting to be close with him again but not doing a damn thing about it, although everything in Peeta's nature says he would have forgiven her. So basically she spends 6 months letting Peeta mope, wanting him and doing nothing until Peeta makes the move to rebuild their relationship. Throughout CF we see her repeatedly pulling from him, because she doesn't think she deserves to have him since she will never fully commit to him (with the exception of the beach scene when she lets herself go but only to try and persuade him to save his life, and only temporarily giving in to her emotions). So no, I don't really find it out of character for her to not fight for him in MJ. I think it is completely her character. She thinks because she has decided on a life without a partner she has no right to fight for him. When hijacked Peeta confronts her about who she really is (you're a piece of work, aren't you"), she agrees with his assessment. So as much as she misses and wants the old Peeta who loved her and didn't see her cold, manipulative side, she can't find it within herself to particularly disagree with everything he sees in her now or to fight against that.

This too is an interesting aspect of the story for me. Because yes pre-hijack Peeta loved her in a very self-sacrificing way. But what did he truly know of the real Katniss? He had loved her since the first time he saw her, without ever having an actual conversation with her, and by the time he got to know her, he was blinded to her faults by his love for her. Katniss only knew Peeta in terms of his loving her. She recognized his steadiness, and the hope and tenderness he brought to things, but it was always a given, she never sought to be good enough to earn it. Post-hijacking Peeta saw everything about Katniss her good, and her bad. Katniss couldn't take Peeta for granted anymore. So when they "grew together" IMO they grew to a much deeper love than they could have otherwise experienced.

As far as Katniss's decision Peeta or Gale being made in the last 4 pages... to me it was clear from HG on that Peeta was always the choice... She felt things when kissing him she never felt with Gale, any moment of inhibition (sleep medicine, or semi-consiousness, etc) she found herself wanting Peeta, even after she so-called "chose" Gale in CF she was trying to talk herself out of wanting Peeta. So maybe that wasn't played out in the text officially until the last pages, but it is weaved throughout the books. I think from the moment you read the line referencing the meadow and "a place where Peeta's child would be safe" it is clear that the book will end with Peeta's child in a meadow. So even if it passed quickly in MJ it's was foreshadowed long before. I've read a lot calling it a "default ending" because Peeta was the one who came back. And true I don't think she would have ever chased him down. It wasn't her nature to chase a man, or to feel like she deserved a man like Peeta after all she had done.

But after a time of healing ("slowly I came back to life"), and in particular healing alongside Peeta she is ready. I don't think anywhere is it evident that she is dead inside. For me, when she declares she loves Peeta that is her victory, her declaration that the war has ended. Because she never would allow herself to admit to love or have a partner under the Capitol's rule. It meant she had healed enough to allow herself to love and be loved and to have forgiven herself enough to have been deserving of love. She waited 15 more years to have kids because experience taught her that the incoming power may not be better than the old power. And to me I imagine those 15 years as the time it took to rebuild, and fully demolish the arenas and build the memorials (look at how we are 10 years past 9-11 with the memorial still under construction, rebuilding still happening, and the after effects still being fought, I think 15 years is realistic). Dead inside, means no emotions good or bad. Instead, Katniss very realistically has good days and bad days. She says "when the bad days come" (meaning that there are good days in between). She talks about the terror of being pregnant with her daughter (which is very real for someone having lost so many people she cared about), but she also talks about the joy of holding her daughter in her arms.

Anyways, those are just my thoughts. I enjoyed your review and your comments a lot because it made me really examine why I felt the way I did about the book.
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Katrin von Martin
2.0 out of 5 starsWhat a Mess
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 1, 2015
I may have been disappointed with "Catching Fire," but that didn't stop me from buying the final installment of the "Hunger Games" trilogy as soon as I'd finished the second book. However much the last book let me down, I was too invested in Katniss' world to not see how everything comes together. I had hoped "Mockingjay" would end the series with a bang and provide a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. Once again, I found myself not only underwhelmed, but frustrated and angry by how much of a mess this book was. Spoilers follow.

After being rescued from the Quarter Quell by the rebels at the end of the last book, Katniss learns that District 12 was destroyed and only a small portion of the population survived. She also discovers that District 13 still exists, but it isn't the safe haven that people had hoped it would be. Instead, it's an underground bunker where everything is strictly controlled and regimented, and ignoring or straying from the rules is a strongly punishable offense. Worse still, Peeta was not rescued and is being held captive by the Capital, his fate unknown. Still reeling from recent events, Katniss is expected to be the symbol of the rebellion, the Mockingjay, but she isn't sure if she can fill this role or if she even wants to. With the districts steadily falling to the rebels and the attacks from the Capital getting more brutal, Katniss realizes that she has to stop President Snow, no matter what it takes...no matter the cost

This book should have been great. It has the framework to tell an empowering story of Katniss standing up for what she believes and becoming a symbol for the change she desires. The potential for action and wide reaching consequences is present, as is the possibility for a great deal of character growth and development as Katniss faces opposition not only from Panem, but also from District 13 and their plans. But "Mockingjay" doesn't deliver and instead falls tragically short on all fronts. It's a mess; everything that was done well in the first two books is mishandled here, the result being a book that is unsatisfying, frustrating, and oftentimes even boring! I've raved about Collins' ability to pace the last two novels; they were rarely boring and kept you turning the pages, desperately wanting to know what happens next. That sense of suspense and needing to read just one more page is gone here. A good seventy-five percent of this book is spent with Katniss milling about in District 13, either in a drugged daze or frantically trying to work things out in her head. When she finally gets to the Capital, the story picks up again and races to the climax, but it takes an incredibly long time to get there, and then ends on the same slow, disconnected note. Frankly, it's a chore to get through, and a book with this much promise simply should not be this boring. What happened?

Like I said, very little happens in the novel. If you go through the list of events, it seems like there are a lot of big things going on: Katniss goes to District 12, Katniss begins her life in District 13 and agrees to be the Mockingjay, she shoots some promotional videos and ends up in a firefight in District 8, District 13 is attacked and later manages to rescue Peeta, Katniss is present when District 2 is conquered by the rebels, Katniss infiltrates the Capital, important characters die, and Katniss finally gets to kill Panem's leader (sort of). See? There's a lot that happens, but it feels like most of the book drudges along with very little in the way of important events taking place. This is because Katniss either isn't there for the big events (rescuing Peeta), they happen very quickly with little time to think about or enjoy them (District 8, District 2, the bombing of District 13, and the death of the leader), and because they're interspersed with long periods where Katniss just sits in District 13 and does nothing. The infiltration of the Capital provided a level of excitement similar to that present throughout the first novel, but it's such a small part of the book that it gets lost in the pages and pages of either flying through events or moping around District 13. I couldn't bear to put the first two books down...I had a hard time wanting to pick this one up.

We don't even get a satisfying ending after slogging through page after page of Katniss lamenting over this or pondering that. I'm not the kind of reader that needs a happy ending. In fact, most "happily ever after" endings rub me the wrong way. I do, however, need a satisfying conclusion that brings closure, and that simply isn't provided here. Katniss has an intriguing discussion with President Snow about the death of her sister. Then, in a moment of apparent madness since Katniss' thoughts are too jumbled and rushed to make sense, she decides to kill President Coin, while Snow dies either as a result of his health or the mob that closed in after Coin's death. From here, Katniss spends days locked up and considering suicide before her fate is decided off screen. She's then sent back to District 12, where she spends the rest of her days in a detached daze, eventually settling down and having a couple kids, not because she wants to, but because her husband begged her to. That's it. After three books of buildup, we get a nonsensical, unsatisfying ending wherein Katniss becomes an emotional vegetable and we don't even know how the Capital and districts were affected (beyond that the arena where the Hunger Games were held has been torn down). It's rushed and feels like Collins either ran out of time while writing or didn't quite know how to finish the trilogy and therefore made a mess of it. At one point, it is revealed the Coin wanted Katniss to be killed in the rebellion as a martyr, and I can't help but think that might have been a more satisfying ending both for Katniss and the book as a whole. Perhaps the idea was to show how deeply Katniss has been damaged by what she's been through, and I get that, but her final decision and eventual fate make no sense given what we've seen of her from the first couple books and they make for a poor ending. There should be some sort of satisfying payoff for getting to the end of the series, and "Mockingjay" fails to provide it.

As can probably be expected, there are a couple deaths in the book, and they're people who are pretty significant in Katniss' life. When Rue died in "The Hunger Games," I was distraught and shed a few tears due to how touching and tragically beautiful the scene was. Rue was a young tribute that Katniss had only just met. In this book, Finnick and Primrose both meet their end, and neither receives the care nor triggers the emotion that was present in Rue's death. Finnick dies off screen during the raid on the Capital at the hands of Capital-engineered mutts, and is hardly thought of afterwards. Primrose also dies in Panem when a bomb is dropped on the group of children she is trying to save. Finnick was one of the few friends that Katniss had that really seemed to understand what she was going through, and Primrose was the person that Katniss loved above anyone else, the one who she was prepared to sacrifice her life for in the first book. We're told that Katniss is affected by Prim's death, but we never really feel it. It happens too fast to make a lasting impact, and that could have worked had Katniss' emotions been handled well enough to successfully make us feel the raw pain that losing her sister so suddenly would have brought. Rather, the dazed, detached state that Katniss seems to be perpetually in gets in the way, and we simply don't get the same emotional response. The only time I felt even a little sad over Primrose's death was when Katniss grieved with Buttercup. And better yet, Prim's death also encourages Katniss' mother to write her a letter saying that her mother can't bear to be around Katniss anymore because it reminds her too much of Primrose...seems like a convenient way to take mom out of the picture. The loss of life in the first and even the second book was made to feel tragic, but the death of two very important people to Katniss in this book is quickly glossed over with none of the impact that is present in the early books...and it's a damn shame given how emotional they could, and by all rights should have been.

There were a couple of things I liked about "Mockingjay," though they seem very small in the grand scheme of the book. I actually really liked that District 13 isn't what Katniss (and everyone else) hoped it would be. It's different and puts the characters in a new environment that we haven't seen in the first couple of books. Additionally, the way of life in District 13 is incredibly practical and makes sense given their situation. It adds a new element to the book and gives the characters new obstacles to overcome. I even found myself thinking that some of the brutal tactics District 13 used were refreshing because it really makes it seem like there aren't any clear cut "good" or "bad" guys. It's a shame this idea wasn't explored more thoroughly. I also really enjoyed the media aspect of the rebellion. In fact, I've thought the role of the media in all three books was interesting and was pleased to see it carry into this book.

Romance-wise, we finally get a resolution to the love triangle, but like with so many other aspects of the book, it's a disappointing conclusion. I've mentioned in my reviews for the other books that both Peeta and Gale are decent guys with both having their individual attributes and flaws. That kind of falls apart in this novel. Peeta is absent for a lot of the story, and when he returns, he's suffering the effects of torture and is practically insane. He recovers enough to accompany Katniss during the infiltration of Panem, but is never quite as stable as he once was. Gale is given something of an unfortunate makeover by the author and is suddenly bloodthirsty and not understanding of Katniss' plight. Katniss also never has to make a decision. She overhears her two suitors talking while in Panem; one of them comments that she'll pick the one she can't survive without. That should set up a difficult choice for Katniss, but she ends up being given a pass on this when Gale decides that a big job in District 2 is more important than her (and really, who can blame him given how she is by the end of the book) and Peeta ends up settling down with her because, it seems, they're both stuck in District 12. So much for the agonizing indecision that plagued her over which guy to date. A lot of time and pages are spent both in the last book and this one with Katniss thinking about her boyfriend problem, yet we don't get much in the way of a satisfying resolution. Romance isn't my thing and, honestly, I was rooting for Gale until the end of this book, but even I felt a little gypped by the outcome.

Katniss, oh, Katniss...what happened to you? She started off as a strong heroine in "The Hunger Games." Practical, skilled, decisive, and confident, she was the type of protagonist that so many YA books are missing, the type of protagonist you want to succeed because they're so likable. In the second book, the character took a turn for the worse and became selfish, whiny, and passive. Sadly, that trend continued in "Mockingjay," and Katniss somehow became even more indecisive, selfish, and whiny than she was in the second book. Perhaps worse, she became spineless. I think everyone wanted to see her break away from her role as a pawn, first of the Capital and then of District 13, and become the symbol she wanted to be. I hoped she would be decisive in this book by standing up for what she wanted and taking an active role in the rebellion's decisions and events. But she doesn't do any of this and instead spends most of her time, as I said before, in the hospital on drugs or moping around District 13. I could have forgiven her being like this in the beginning of the book since it would have been understandable in her position and would have provided the opportunity for her to take what she's been through and grow into a strong heroine. She remains static, never getting better and instead getting worse throughout the book. I found myself hating her for how selfish and passive she was and wondering where the Hell the Katniss from the first book went. It's as if the character development went backwards through the series: this should have possibly been where she began and the Katniss from "The Hunger Games" should have been what she grew to become. She's also so detached and dazed in this book that it's difficult to relate to her at all. It's hard to enjoy a book when the main character is so unlikable, and harder still when the protagonist used to be such a strong heroine.

I've mentioned in my reviews for the last two books that Katniss isn't a particularly good narrator, and that remains true for "Mockingjay." Not only does she still not provide a unique point of view, but she also isn't present for a lot of the big events. This book should have been either third person or have switched the point of view to Gale or Plutarch or anyone else who was more involved. To reiterate, it feels like nothing happens because Katniss is present for so little. There's also a problem with the utilization of the point of view. The purpose of telling a story through the eyes of one character using first person is to let the reader get inside the character's head and see what makes them tick, what motivates them, and what leads them to make the decisions they make. The choices that Katniss does manage to make are incredibly nonsensical. When asked if there should be one final Hunger Games to punish the Capital, Katniss contemplates if this is how the Hunger Games were initially started and then ultimately votes for it. Really? She's fought so hard to end the Hunger Games and she wants to have one more. Her justification is that it's for Prim, but that's just what she says. We don't get any insight to this choice; she doesn't really think about it or weigh out the different sides. For something that's so incredibly inconsistent with her character, there needs to be more reason behind it; we need to see what she's thinking. The same is true for her decision to shoot Coin instead of Snow. We get that the discussion she had with Snow is making her think, but the decision seems to be made in a moment of madness. She doesn't even really think about it afterwards, so we never truly understand it. Katniss spends a lot of time being indecisive, and when she does choose to do something, it isn't justified particularly well, which defeats the purpose of using the first person point of view.
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Most of the other characters fare equally poorly. Despite his ordeal at the hands of the Capital, Peeta seems to recover pretty well, though he's never quite the same. As I said earlier, Gale becomes suddenly vicious and doesn't care about how many lives are lost to achieve their goal of overthrowing Panem. Although I personally appreciated that Gale actually seemed passionate about what was going on (unlike Katniss), this seemed more like a lazy way for the author to make us dislike him so we wouldn't be so disappointed when Katniss ends up with Peeta. Haymitch isn't seen all that often, though when he is, he's the same cynical grump he was in the first couple books. It's quite disappointing that he returns to seeking comfort in alcohol at the end, as it feels like his character went nowhere. Finnick is probably the only character that seems to grow as we learn more about him, which makes his death all the more frustrating. Most of the characters we meet in District 13 are painted with the same ruthlessly practical brush with Boggs perhaps being the exception. We don't really see enough of anyone else to get a feel for how their characters are growing. Prim seems to be coming into her role as a doctor, but we only see her a couple times in the book, and Katniss' mother is practically absent. There are a lot of players in this story, and most are disappointing in how little they are developed.

On a random note regarding Snow, I was hoping something would be revealed that would make him a little more sympathetic or at least give more insight to the character. I think back to a book I read a couple years ago, "Poison Study," which also featured a harsh ruler. Towards the end of the book, the protagonist learns a big secret about him that makes the reader understand his motivations, even if you don't agree with what he's done. I wanted something similar for Snow and was hoping that Finnick would provide it when he begins to spill the President's secrets. Instead, all we learn is that Snow really is a terrible person that poisoned his enemies in the past and isn't above forcing the Games victors into prostitution. I'm aware that not all villains need to be made more human, but it would have added a unique element to the novel and possibly would have given Katniss more to think about.

I've used the word "disappointed" in various forms quite a bit in this review because that's the best way to describe "Mockingjay" - disappointing. There was a lot riding on this novel, and I suppose it never could have lived up to what people expected (as final books rarely do), but it could have provided a riveting story that ended in a satisfying conclusion. To reiterate what I said at the beginning of the book, "Mockingjay" is a mess...how can the author take elements that were handled so well in the first couple books and mangle them so badly? I give the book two stars, one for the couple things I liked and one for the promise the book held. It could have been amazing.
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itsmebrind
3.0 out of 5 stars I LOVED this series, I mean LOVED it, but this ending SUCKS
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2013
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If you love the slow budding, complicated and raw relationship between Peeta and Katniss and you just can't wait to read the ending that Suzanne Collins would write, because you just KNOW that she'll do right by them and give them the kind of ending that two people who have been through so much hurt, and pain, and hardship deserve, well- you won't find it here! The ending of a three book series consists of a five page wrap up. WTF Suzanne Collins... WTF. I sincerely hope whatever writers get hired to do this movie have a better understanding of your own audience then you do! With a story this complicated a wrap up is NOT the kind of ending your audience was looking for.

I wrote my own ending, if you'd like to read it go for it:

Continuing from where Katniss says, she gave all her bacon to Buttercup….

The days start to go by, somehow. Life continues. It's funny like that. Even when everything you love has disappeared from the face of the Earth, never to be seen again, their laughter never to be heard again, their smiles never to be seen again… life does go on in the cruel way that it does. What I had thought was impossible begins to happen without my knowledge- it crept up on me. I slowly started to accept the fact that the lives lost, the ones I cared for, are gone. I will have to continue my life without them here with me. At least not physically. Sometimes I would talk to them when I had no one else to turn to- after Greasy Sae left for her own makeshift home where the Hob used to be. It seems weird to admit it to myself, but I begin to crave human company. After being constantly surrounded by people, the solitude that I was used to before the madness of the Hunger Games seems so foreign to me now that I’m home. That's when I talk to Prim about random things that I see throughout the day, or to Cinna, describing to him the colors that I see around me, or to Finnick, telling him about how Annie was doing according to the letters she sends faithfully every month.
One late afternoon I muster up the energy and set off to the meadow, place my bow down next to me and throw aside my shoes to try to find a grain of peace here that my home can never give. The grass and leaves are lush and green- soft under my feet, I try to recount the good things that once happened here gail, my father, even the crew members from 13. I take a deep breath and close my eyes, willing myself not to think of the staggering loss that threatens the corners of my mind. I recite in my head the phrases I so often replayed in my mind, my meager attempt to hold on to my sanity: my name is Katniss Everdeen. I am eighteen. I live in District Twelve. I am the Mockingjay. I was the Mockingjay. The Capitol is gone. Gale, my best friend, is now in District Two. He is safe. I don't know where I stand with Peeta but Peeta is safe. I'm back home in District Twelv., I am finally safe. I let out a deep breath as I open my eyes and stare at the sky, lying down in the Meadow where the new buds of life cushion my body from the soil underneath. The sun has just begun to set and the sky was magnificent, painted in shades of light pinks, dull yellows, brilliant reds, and soft hues of orange. Orange. Seeing his favorite color painted all across the endless sky triggers an influx of memories. Its so hard having him live so close and yet knowing how far away we really are. I find myself longing for the feeling of his hand in mine- the way his eyes used to light up just for me. The way he always double knotted his shoelaces, the relief and the surge of warmth that I felt when we kissed. Really kissed. That relief and surge of happiness that I was too afraid to admit to myself was present when he was finally safe, when he was finally near, back at district 12. The feeling of elation when he wrapped his arms around me as we fell into the soft pillow of snow as one. That seems so long ago.
I closed my eyes, imagining his beautiful blue eyes which used to bring such warmth, trying not to forget them and the way they pierced into mine in the gentlest way possible, filled with undeniable love. The way he used to look at me never has fully returned since the Capitol hijacked his memories. Their plan did not prevail, but in some ways, the Capitol and Snow had their victory before their downfalls. Although Peeta was not successful in killing me physically, they took the only sure thing I knew. Peeta loved me, he loved the heartless girl who doesn't trust a soul in the world other than herself. It killed me to know that although he was pronounced "recovered" by Dr. Aurelius, he never truly will be. The light that always shined in his eyes is gone and replaced with something hollow. And that is how Snow and the Capitol took their final revenge.
Peeta and I haven't spoken since he planted the primrose bushes. He somehow managed to finish planting the bushes before I woke up in the morning and as a result my house in the Victor's Village is now surrounded with primrose bushes, waiting for summer to breathe in a breath of life. In the mornings I would wake up to the sweet aroma of bread wafting through the house and find downstairs a fresh cheese roll every day left on the counter. Even though the gesture was simple, it hit me every time with a pang of longing mixed in with a bit of sadness. It reminds me of the way he used to care for me, of memories long ago, how I would wake up from my nightmares and feel safe to be in his arms, and how ever since I got back home I would wake up screaming only to be comforted by the soft kitten mews of Buttercup instead. I relished his company and the way he protected me just as he did with Prim, yet it was nothing compared to waking up and feeling secure in the strong arms of Peeta. The one who understood.
I closed my eyes, blocking out the hues of orange in the sky that reminded me so much of him, and whispered to no one in particular his name. Peeta. It felt good to say his name out loud and not hear it revolve in my head with the list of others I’ve hurt. As I let another quick breath out, my experienced hunting senses felt the vibration of someone's footsteps ever so gently shaking the Meadow. The footsteps stopped next to where my bow was, and not bothering to open my eyes I asked, "Done recovering from your latest hangover, Haymitch?"
The voice that answered me back wasn't what I had been expecting at all.
"Last time I checked, I wasn't intoxicated out of my mind, but to answer your question, probably not. I went into his house to bring him some fresh bread this morning and he was completely out of it. But Greasy Sae's doing a nice job of keeping his house clean. I hardle recognize it without all the mold and clutter."
My eyes snapped open. The view that greeted me was such a surprise, his body so close to mine, his voice finally sounding the way it did before the Capital got him. Its taken months for even minor healing, but this is the greatest improvement of all. To hear his voice, the voice of reason, of comfort, the voice that could change the world. His eyes were a clear yet smoky blue, staring at me with hesitation of what my reaction would be seeing him here- yet I did nothing. My eyes stared into his searchingly, looking for the piece of Peeta I longed for to come back. And it was there. Almost completely. The care that I was so used to seeing, the love that I had taken for granted. He was almost there.
I couldn't believe it at first. The fact that he was standing there, in front of me, as if we didn't ignore each other for the past two months. As if we didn't secretly keep track of where the other went so that we wouldn't bump into the other despite being neighbors. Yet he was still there after I closed my eyes briefly to make sure that I wasn't imagining it. Sometimes I would see Prim next to me, with her shirt untucked, making her look like a little duck. But he was still there after I opened my eyes. This was real. He had finally come for me.

"Hi Katniss" he says. His tone full and sounding steady, and at that moment I wanted to melt into his arms as if nothing happened, and just tell him all the things that only he can understand- things like nightmares about the arena, the fear and paranoia of the Capitol and Snow somehow reappearing back in power. The constant flashbacks that haunt my mind. Resisting my urge to dig my way into his arms, feeling the hollow places of my body crying out for him. I managed to choke out a "Hi yourself".
He sat down next to me in the grass, looking not at me, but up at the sky. Then he closed his eyes and sighed.
"You were right, this kind of orange is my favorite color. My memories are starting to come back. My real memories. It's like the effects of the hijacking are finally wearing off and my brain can distinct what is real and what is not more easily than it could before. Some days everything seems fake and I can't remember what's real at all, but I somehow manage to get through it and the truth comes back."
I hear him rambling, searching for the right things to say- things that won't bring up sensitive topics that will hurt me, cause me to run. But I don't. I go back to closing my eyes and soak in the sound of his voice and let it soothe me. Its been so long since we’ve talked like this. To have him so near me, his hand so close to mine without touching- it feels strange. Wrong, in some way. I couldn't remember a time where we were talking like this and not touching him in some way. I craved the soft touch of the skin on his hands- the smell of spices.

In a moment of weakness, I can’t fight it anymore and tentatively reach out my hand, closing the space that was between. I felt my fingers find his, and fill in the spaces between his fingers, wrapping mine around his. I felt him stiffen, and for a brief moment, I opened my eyes in fear that he would pull away, revolted by my touch. His eyes were squeezed shut and he seemed to be in battle with himself. Yet the battle was over as soon as it had begun. He muttered something under his breath… something that sounded like the word "always". Then he opened his eyes and looked right into mine for few glorious seconds before flitting away. As he stared into the sky once more, I gave his hand a squeeze, remembering the first moment his fate intertwined with mine. And for the first time ever, a memory associated with the Hunger Games brought a smile upon my face- remembering the reassuring squeeze he gave me that very first day. He was there for me even before I knew I needed him.
Peeta closed his eyes and gave a small sigh. Then, he squeezed my hand back and I saw a smile slowly unfolding across his face, reminding me of the Peeta I knew. The yellow dandelion in the spring, representing all that is good and hope for the future. We lay in the Meadow until the sky turned into night, revealing a magnificent myriad of stars spreading infinitely across the sky, hand in hand, then arm in arm until he’s holding me just as before. Just lying there, grateful for the other's company. As we begin to drift off he whispers, “ You love me real or not” and after all we’ve been through and wrestled with I know I can finally say “Real.” He nestles his face in my neck and we both drift in to a peaceful sleep.

Epilogue.
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bklvr
3.0 out of 5 stars Torn about this book...
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2010
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Okay, on the one hand, I liked this book. Liked it enough that I couldn't stop reading because I NEEDED to know what happened--specifically to Peeta. I also liked what happened in the end...but...well...

From the first page of The Hunger Games to the end of Mockingjay, the one thing, the one character that kept me reading was Peeta. I liked Katniss alright, but she wasn't what drew me into the series. Katniss, like many reviews are saying, was a pawn in this awful war. In the first 2 books she acted against the 'control'. She rebelled--which is WHY so many people looked up to her. Which is why they wanted her face to be the seal of their rebellion. It made sense. But here's where I feel Ms. Coillins made a grave mistake in Mockingjay...she eliminated the 'goodness' that had motivated Katniss to move forward even when she didn't want to during the games from her life.

True, this whole series has been about fighting oppression and power. About fighting against a government set out to only make their own lives better, and I felt the first 2 books did that nicely. They were so dark, so horrifying, but inside all of that horror there was a spark of light, of sunshine, and that spark was Peeta and Prim--but mostly Peeta since he was there with her to remind her time and time again the type of goodness that was there to save.

Peeta represented true goodness, love, compassion. He was what kept Katniss from falling over the edge into total darkness. He was her rock, her friend, and no matter how confused she felt--she loved him, even if she didn't know it yet. The failure in Mockingjay was that, Ms. Collins took that light away from Katniss. There was no goodness anymore, and therefore Katniss lost her own 'personal spark'. Yet, this was never alluded to in the story. We just saw Katniss growing weaker and weaker, and were never given a reason as to why. People are complaining about how 'soft' her character went and I completely agree. But what isn't being talked about is the reason why. The reason is that Ms. Collins all but removed Peeta from this story.

I don't know about everyone else, but he was the only bright spot in this entire series for me. Everything was so dark and hopeless--except him. HE was the one the masses clung to. HIS words, HIS light, HIS goodness. He is what made Katniss look so incredible. It was his presence and words that did that. It is my opinion that she could not have risen to the level she was at without him--which is why she fell short in Mockingjay. The dynamic between them and what they accomplished together at both 'Games' was what drove the series for me. It wasn't even so much about the romance--although that DID add another human layer to this story which made it all that much more gut wrenching and true.

All across the review boards, message boards, etc...the main thing people mused about was 'Who is Katniss going to choose? Gale or Peeta?' (And really, was there even a doubt as to who it would be? Who it needed to be?) Yet, we get to Mockingjay and the author COMPLETELY obliterated that theme. Sure, we all understand that the war was the main plot, but the HEART of any story is it's characters and their personal journey. Love being one that drives most stories. The love was all but absent here. Sure, we get a resolution, Katniss chooses in the end, but it doesn't FEEL good to the reader. We were given no 'reunion' scene. We were given no 'love-filled' embrace. We were TOLD, 'and this happened.' Not fulfilling. Not in the least. Readers need closure. It doesn't have to be a 'happily ever after' which would have been completely off base for this story. But we need to see that in spite of everything that had happened, everything that the characters have suffered, that it had been worth SOMETHING. That everything they fought for, everything so many people died for, was worth something in the end. I'm disappointed because it wasn't like that. It was more like 'Yes, I finally admitted to myself that Peeta was who I loved, then I had some babies with him because he wanted them.'

Why, Suzanne Collins? Why? Why couldn't you let Katniss and Peeta be content afterward? Why couldn't it have ended with Katniss feeling at least somewhat like what they'd suffered had helped in some way. It ended with Katniss sounding just as depressed and unhappy as in the beginning--even though she had a wonderful husband and beautiful kids. I'm just...incredulous, I guess, that there couldn't even be a kernel of hope in the end. We all know this story wasn't a fairytale, and I prepared myself for bleakness. I just never imagined that I would get the ending I wanted (I was actually convinced Peeta would die and I'd be so incredibly mad that I'd throw the book into my fireplace), but that it would have such a sour note that I couldn't even be happy about it. I missed the dynamic between Peeta and Katniss so much. Only twice in the entire book did I feel ANY of that old spark (when he asked her, "You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real?" and when she kissed him to help him stay sane.) Twice in 400 pages. Characters and their relationship trump any and ALL fighting/gore/death--even in a war story because without that, readers don't care about the outcome of the war! This is where this novel fell short. The character relationships were completely annihilated. Gone.

Ok, I guess I've ended my rant. I just feel like she could have ended the book the same, but could have made that hopelessness feeling go away just a little. Because what is life if there is no hope? This novel left the reader feeling empty, drained, and hopeless. Not even being able to care about what happened to those characters we'd grown to love.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Really Enjoyable but Not On Fire...
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2012
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Title: Mockingjay
Author: Suzanne Collins
My Rating - 3.5-4 Stars

I'd like to begin my review of Mockingjay by saying that I laughed my butt off when Liz Lemon of 30 Rock made a comment about sinking into Peeta Mellark's embrace -- his arms that 'smell like bread'. Hilarious. Nice to know that those of us reading YA who are not that Y ourselves are not alone.

SPOILERS included. Do not read if you've not read the book. This is a late review, not a new release...

GOOD STUFF
I have to give this book a 3.5 - 4 Stars for overall satisfaction. It ends in the manner that it should and it wraps up all the loose ends nicely and believably. Like the other books, the author is true to Katniss throughout. It is clear that Katniss did not ever want to be a revolutionary, she just wanted to keep her little sister from harm as she began doing when her father died and her mother had a breakdown. Throughout the entire story, this is Katniss' MO. Even though she agrees to be the Mockingjay and serve as the symbol of the rebellion, she disobeys their orders and wishes as regularly as she does the Capitol's. Neither faction can control her and she realizes that the rebel leader, President Coin is as much a danger to her as President Snow in the Capitol. In the end, a great injustice is done to Katniss as her only mission fails and Prim is killed. It is clear that Coin allowed her onto the battlefield. What is unclear is whether it is Gale's trap that ends her life...or the Capitol's. Unable to be certain, and sure that Coin and Gale are nearly as wrong as Snow, Katniss makes her choice at the execution and shoots Coin instead of Snow. It is her last act as the Mockingjay. The war is over, she is pardoned and she returns to a newly rebuilding District 12 with Peeta, where they live out their lives with their children.

Favorite Scenes
Katniss' visit to District 8 hospital and subsequent battle
Katniss sings The Hanging Tree to Pollux and the Mockingjays
Finnick and Annie's Wedding
Katniss and Peeta at peace, their love in balance, their children safe

CRITICAL STUFF
After Catching Fire, I expected to be blown away by Mockingjay and for the first 60% of it, I really was impressed. However, when they get to the invasion of the Capitol, I have to admit, she started to lose me. The revisitation of the Hunger Games finally wore me down. The idea that the center of the city would have hundreds of intensely diabolical booby traps seemed off to me. Would those never have gone off in the course of everyday life and caused some type of disastrous accident? I guess it's supposed to underscore how messed up Snow is, but it felt a little unrealistic somehow. I also think it dragged. My capacity to focus on yet another violent trap waned. Also, she introduced the new character, Tigress, in the midst of this section and I found her hard to relate to as well.

Media Stuff/Propos - I did get a little tired of Katniss being dressed up, made up, and followed around by cameras. The whole media angle is interesting, but it may have been too much for me. That being said, the single strongest moment in the entire book for me is when Katniss is filmed in District 8 after the bombing and declares, "IF WE BURN, YOU BURN WITH US!" That gave me goosebumps. Dead on!

Gale - In this book Katniss and Gale connect more than they ever have (while conscious) in the previous books. To me, it was the chance to finally understand this great love story...and then it seemed to fall apart before my eyes. Though a handful of times Gale and Katniss share a kiss or engage in some act of kindness toward one another, the reality is that Gale chooses the rebellion over Katniss and she knows it. She is shocked by his bloodlust, particularly when she gets to see it in action. When she connects his double-bomb to Prim's death, she cannot unthink it and the tenuous thread of their love is permanently severed.

Peeta - Lots of bloggers took some issue with Peeta's 'hijacking'. I actually found that compelling and believable. It's like A Clockwork Orange...psychological conditioning is an old idea and she just took it to an extreme. It worked because it forced Katniss to live without an utterly devoted Peeta and think about what that was like. Though it's Finnick that points out that she obviously has some sort of love for Peeta, Katniss seems to be finally figuring that out for herself. It was so obvious to me throughout that Peeta was going to recover and that Peeta was going to be 'The One'. Who in the heck else could it have been? He devoted his life (and nearly gave it over and over) to save her because he loved her, not because he had any agenda. In fact, he is the only character in the entire thing that has no other agenda besides saving Katniss' life. Everyone else manipulates her at some point. In some ways, this even includes Prim, who pushes her to use her power as the Mockingjay. The idea that Peeta would not be the One in the end was just never believable to me.

Coin - The author never once gives Katniss any positive connection with Coin. From the very first time she meets her, she dislikes the perfection of her hair and tension rules their relationship. For this reason I never saw Coin's targeting of Katniss in the final scenes as much of a 'secret twist'. Katniss knew Coin didn't like her, she just didn't realize Coin wanted her dead...but for the reader that is not a stretch. Also, Katniss' decision to kill Coin in the end. I saw that coming a mile away. She knew that the others would kill Snow. Everyone wanted to kill Snow. But she thought that Coin arranged Prim's death and so she took her revenge. That is one thing I do like, the fact that Katniss stuck to her love of Prim to the end. Though she saw Coin as dangerous, Katniss has seen enough of humanity to have decided that any leader could be or become evil. That was not why she killed her. She killed her because Coin killed Prim, period.

Katniss Everdeen - The Hunger Games Movie Poster
I loved Katniss, I loved the story. I don't know how they will make these movies because the story is so incredibly violent, but I know I will be right there to see them. For your enjoyment, I included this promotional movie poster for you. Katniss is played by a relatively new talent in Jennifer Lawrence. Good bye Bella Swan, Hello Katniss Everdeen...
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Tracy L. Johnson
3.0 out of 5 stars Not A Happy Ever After Book!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 26, 2010
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I finished this book in the wee hours of the morning after reading for 10 hours, the ending definitely left me with a lot of emptiness and mixed emotions. Today, I went back and reread parts of the book just to try to clarify some things in my mind. There are SPOILERS in here. I apologize for the length of this, but my mind is just reeling from this book.

What I didn't like is that I didn't see the old Peeta. I wanted Peeta to be rescued early in the story and be that rock for Katniss like he's always been. It just broke my heart to see how his memories were hijacked and he was brainwashed to hate/kill Katniss. When Katniss goes to meet him after he's been rescued I was expecting hugs and kisses, and instead Peeta tries to choke her to death. I immediatly wanted Katniss to start helping him get those memories back and help him heal, but instead she ignores him and goes to district 2 and even when Peeta calls her ugly, mocks their relationship, and asks her about her relationship with Gale, she turns her back on him. She doesn't try to even help him recover until Haymitch reminds her that they both made a promise to save Peeta and she's not living up to her end. Then, she finally decides to help him. I still didn't get a full sense of how much of his memories he recovered. I wanted to see more interaction between him and Katniss like there was in book 1 and book 2. I know SC wanted the message to be about the war, and how messy they are, but at the same time, I felt some attention should have been spent on showing Peeta and Katniss growing back together and rediscovering one another since it was developed in the first two books.

I did get a sense early in the book that Katniss really did love Peeta, especially after her breakdown, and I wanted her to acknowledge that and not rely on what others were telling her. Finnick, Prim, and Gale kept telling her that she loved Peeta but she never acknowledged it until that very quick ending. Peeta wore his heart on his sleeve in the first two books, and told her he loved her and she can't give him one "I love you." Even when he was questioning her, and told her that he remembered about the bread and he said "I must have really loved you," and he asked her, "did you love me," her response was "other people keep telling me that I do." Right then, I felt that she blew it. Maybe if she told him that she loved him earlier that would have helped him with the healing process.

I hated that Finnick and Prim had to die. Just when Finnick found a litle bit of happiness it was taken away. The purpose of Katniss going into THG in the first place was to protect Prim and then to see her die in the end after all that Katniss went through to save her was very disappointing, but I guess it was important for SC's overall message, and it allowed Katniss to see that Coin was no better than Snow.

I hated how they made this trek all the way to the capital for Katniss to kill Snow, and had many deaths. Instead of Katniss forging ahead with her plan after she sees Prim killed because the rebels were alreay there and could have helped she gets hurt and is back in the hospital. Katniss spent way to much time in the hospital recovering from some injury and having a mental breakdown, instead of being more active. I really wanted her to kick butt in this book, and I felt she was more on the sidelines and not in the game.

My feelings about Gale. After reading CF, I thought that Gale may end up with Madge because I wanted Peeta with Katnss but now after reading Mockingjay, I felt that Gale got the best deal out of anybody because he was always in control and knew what he wanted. Gale is definitely an amazing fighter and he has this war mentality about him. I was so glad to see more of him and get an insight into who he was. When I was reading more about his character I realized that I saw this fighting tendency in him in CF. When he discovered that the rebellion was starting he refused to run away with Katniss and wanted to stay and fight. Also, Gale had this strong hatred in him towards the capital that we saw in the first two books and he showed incredible leadership by leading as many people as he could to safety when the capital destroyed district 12. Now thinking about it, there were no indications in any of the books that Gale was going to end up with Madge. If he couldn't have Katniss, then he's going to do something else that he loves which is fighting, strategizing, or something to help start a new regime. Like Katniss said in the end, "Gale had too much fire." I hated how things ended with him and Katniss and this possibility that he was responsible for Prim's death. Gale was too restless to ever be with Katniss, and we begin to see so many differences between them and start seeing them grow apart. Especially when they were in District 2 and Gale wanted to bring down the nut killing all people inside and Katniss wanted them to leave a way for people to escape. She tries to reason with him but can't. Gale still wanted to be part of the fighting hence the fancy job in district 2, and Katniss had had enough. Peeta was the calm to her fire and that was what she needed to survive. I don't think that Gale was slacked in anyway. It would have been nice to know what happened to him.

Now, the ending. I felt that it was too rushed. I wanted some interaction between her and Peeta. A few pages with them talking and reconciling. Even though Katniss and Peeta were together in the end, this was by no way a happy ever after book or story. They were both battled scarred physically and emotionally. This was a pick up the pieces and go on with life the best way you can ending. I am glad that Katniss finally felt comfortable enough to have children because she was adamant about not having children, but Peeta wanted them and I guess in a way this proves that she really does love him because she had to overcome some huge emotional obstacles in order to have them. The ending was too rushed.

Again, I apologize for the length but my mind was reeling from this book, and I wanted to put my thougts out there. I'm sure I will have more observations and opinions as I continue to grapple with this book. Overall, I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it liked I loved the first two books.
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3.0 out of 5 stars should have been a great read...but lacked so much subtance
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2010
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First of all, I want to start with how much of a huge fan of the Hunger Games trilogy I was. While I thought the second book was somewhat of an unnecessarily long bridge to gap the first book to the third book, I still found the second book rather enjoyable and read it faster than I read The Hunger Games. However, I was disappointed to find that what charming attributes that made the first two books were disappointingly lacking in this final book. Don't get me wrong, I thought Mockingjay was a great read, but it took a turn that I thought digressed way too much from the first two books.

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My first real issue with Mockingjay was the regression of Katniss's character. I understand that characters, especially 'heroes' like Katniss Everdeen are supposed to rise and fall in their character developments, eventually finding their way to their own voice where they can make their own decisions and learn from their mistakes. Unfortunately, as I completed Mockingjay, I found this not to be the case. In The Hunger Games, Katniss is more relatable to audiences. It's clear that she is distrustful of those around her, as she is put into a position where she must fend for her own in order to win the games. However, she eventually learns to trust those around her, starting with Rue, and then eventually learning to trust (and manipulate) Peeta. After the first two books, I had hoped that Katniss would eventually learn to value the people around her and learn to trust those who are willing to die for her. But that is not at all the case. Katniss stays as the reclusive, distrustful, and manipulative tribute from the first book. In fact, she becomes so unlikeable that I found myself wishing that by the end of the book something horrific would happen to Katniss and she would die die DIE just so I wouldn't have to hear her whine whine whine about how horrible her life is (at this point I'd like to point out that her family, aside from Gale's were pretty much the only one who got out SAFELY from District 12 after it got bombed. yes, Katniss, your life is SOOOOO horrible that you were rescued from the Games with your family in tact, and all you can bitch about is how horrible your life is without your dead father. Let's all keep in mind that you're not the one being tortured and being forced to watch everyone else you know die before your very eyes.).

Putting my rant for Katniss aside, I felt that Suzanne Collins failed to develop Katniss's character completely. Katniss remains selfish and really only thinks about herself and her troubles before thinking about others. As many other reviewers before me have pointed out, she only comes to Peeta's aid like 3 times out of the countless times she considers killing him. Where is the compassion that she seems to spew in her mind but never seems to show to others. From what I've noticed, Katniss only really ever mourns when people she loves are taken away from her. Whenever she's with Gale or with Peeta, or even her mother and sister, she seems to take them for granted when they are present. I suppose Collin's attempt to force Katniss into this realization was to kill her sister. But even then Katniss does not seem to learn from her mistake, but is rather hellbent on spilling more blood in order to reach some kind of satisfaction for her sister's death. Although I wasn't exactly opposed to the ending, since I will admit I enjoyed it (nothing wrong with a fairy tale ending), I was a bit disturbed thinking I would've actually preferred Katniss remain alone and empty after regressing from a passive Mockingjay to a soulless mutt.

But I digress (I could say so much more, but I'll spare the boring rants). I want to move on to my next point, which is Suzanne Collins's sudden change in narrative. I was so disappointed having to pretty much skim through so many parts in the book as I found much of the action scenes and the Call of Duty-esque battles seem to drag on and on in the book. After awhile I found no sense of suspense after realizing that no major characters would really be killed off as all the other uncountable, insignificant characters like Leeg 1 and Leeg 2 (brilliant, no?) were offed in deaths that had to just one up the next one. After managing to get through all of that, I felt cheated when Collins decided to not even show us anything at the end. She built everything up about Snow's death, only to have her pretty much tell her everything that happens after Prim's death. We don't see what happens to Snow. We're told he may have been trampled. We don't see the transfer of power from Capitol, District 13, and then to the 'people'. We're told about that as well. In fact, I feel like Collins' pretty much gave up describing it out to us and pretty much had to spell everything out to us, as if our brains to turned to mush just like Katniss' and Peeta's. Instead of allowing us to interpret things for ourselves and figuring things through character actions, we get chunks of paragraphs of Katniss telling us what things mean (like the Hanging Tree poem that had to be so thoroughly broken down for us there was pretty much nothing left to the imagination) and what important things have transpired. I felt like this was a huge cop out on the author's part. Having taken part in Katniss' journey from the first book to the third, only to have the climatic and most crucial scenes be told to us in a brief paragraph, I was utterly disappointed and wished that I had just read the first book of this trilogy and then left everything else an open ended question.

On to the POSITIVE STUFF!!! As much as I have so much stuff to rant about, I'm going to end with the very brief and tacked on ending. Although as much as I despised Katniss by the end of the book, I felt that she eventually learns from her mistakes and develops her character...slightly. After all, she finally acknowledges Peeta and opens her heart to him and even grows to have a family. However, as previously mentioned we are never really shown this, but rather told. Even so, I can't help but think back to Gale's assessment of Katniss choosing whoever she can't survive without. She eventually accepts Peeta only because she learns that Gale is perhaps way too much like her, and the only way she can salvage her empty character is to fill it with the only positive element left in her life. So maybe she doesn't grow as much as I would have liked, but perhaps this is a step to progression to show that over time Katniss is able to transform from mutt to subhuman.
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Chris Buchheit
3.0 out of 5 stars Plots Derailed, and Now I'm Sad
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2012
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*SEVERE SPOILERS*

In short, I have never felt so let down by a book before in my life. And it's such a shame because the author so beautifully built up the conflict and could not execute it properly in the last 20% of the book. It's as if she built this amazing house of cards - primed for it all to come tumbling down, thematically and plot-wise - but then decided to leave it standing and build another semi-related house of cards instead.

I'm reading Mockingjay last night. I'm up to 72 or 73% on it in my Kindle. I'm loving it. It's even a candidate for one of my favorite books ever. Katniss is on a mission to assassinate President Snow. She's running through the city, tacklings all sorts of obstacles. I'm deeply, emotionally invested in the story, especially in the dynamic between Peeta and her - in the sense that I found his memory loss/transformation to be incredibly heart-breaking and a wonderfully effective plot device. So I'm expecting - HOPING - that Katniss will run up like a bad ass, infiltrate the mansion like a bad ass, have a heart-to-heart with President Snow like a bad ass, who will give Katniss some sort of antidote that will heal Peeta's condition. In exchange, he will ask for immunity, to allow the Capitol to remain in power, but under far more equal and peaceful terms. Katniss will refuse, take the antidote anyway, kill Snow, restore Peeta, save the world, make the choice between Peeta and Gale, and reconcile all the leftover plot points that were left dangling - and beautifully built up by the author.

So imagine my shock when, out of nowhere, bombs start falling on a bunch of kids for no reason. And then they kill Prim. For no reason. Turns it's a plot twist. For no reason. Turns out Coin is the bad (?) guy. For no reason. Then Katniss not only doesn't kill Snow, she doesn't get to play an active part in restoring Peeta. His recovery is attributed to "time," which is bs. Gale is suddenly out of picture for convenience sake. In short, nothing gets resolved except fo the conflict between the Capitol and the Districts. And we don't even get to see that! As was the case in the last book, all the reading we as the audience did between the bombing of District 8 until the bombs fall was completely useless. It was fantastically built up, but never fully realized.

I feel this book - and the last one, which suffered from the same problems, in my opinion - should have been from Plutarch's perspective. Katniss did not play an active or important enough role in this book to warrant it being from her perspective in the slightist. In both books, she was a passive observer and not an active participant in the world. None of the conflicts are really addressed beyond convenient paragraphs and summaries, and all of these conflicts really deserved full chapters of devotion. Katniss' active redemption of Peeta (and herself, for that matter) - which should have occurred as a direct result of the same actions that would have saved the world - would have been so cathartic and so wonderful if it had been pulled off properly.

Katniss and Gale could have worked out their differences. Haymitch could have at least stopped drinking. Something! One character needed to grow and become better as a result of this story. It's certainly possible - and I think very likely - that the author wanted to make a thematic statement and perhaps throw in some social criticism. However, this theme of "war in general sucks" is never seriously thrown into the theme until the last 10% of the book, which ends up dictating the entire resolution - or lack thereof - in the end of the book. This thematic device therefore came off rather poorly in my opinion. I think this book suffered from what the other books had; I personally felt each of the books could have used one or two more drafts because it all felt disjointed, overly-convenient in terms of plotting, and Katniss' role was far too passive and useless.

So I'm left at the end of the book, my veins throbbing in my head, and my hands outstretched, palms up, over my shoulders in an eternal shrug, with my mouth agape, as I try to figure out what the heck the author was thinking when she figuratively derailed every plot point, every character, every tendril of good plotting she had built up for over 200 pages (over 600 if you include the previous books).

I will say, in compliment to this book, that the annoying tell-and-don't-show style of writing that was very prevalent in the first two books (and almost caused me to stop reading the second book), is significantly decreased in this one. So I think the writing itself is actually better in this book. Or perhaps I got used to these things and dismissed them as a stylistic thing.

I give this book 3 stars for the still-awesome world the author created, and the plot she built up. But in my opinion, a few more drafts were necessary to really figure out how to resolve those plot points, which in my opinion, were completely derailed and almost disregarded by the end of this book.
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CheeksMagoo
3.0 out of 5 stars Half Empty.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2011
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Ok....As the reader, I came into this book with certain expectations. I expected war. I expected a sigificant death toll. I expected less of the love triangle aspect, however I knew it would be integrated and eventually resolved. I cared about these characters, who Collins did a beautiful job with in the first two books, and I expected them to be written in the same light. If they had to die it would be with cause and it would be emotional.

War and death toll I got. The rest, not so much.

Finnick's and Prim's deaths seem so casual, like "Oh well, Finnick was too slow so the mutts got him. Anyways, moving on!" - Obviously that's not a literal translation, but that's how I took it. It was so emotionless... Not like when Rue dies in the second book, there I really felt something... Even Prim, who was the original catalyst for Katniss to ever volunteer as Tribute in the first place, who Katniss cared for more than anything in the world, dies in an explosion and then we go right to Katniss being in the hospital morphed out on pain meds (which is just another annoying reoccurence in this book) Prim's death is so significant, yet is written so abruptly. This really bothers me.

As the character who's eyes we experience this story through, Katniss has two primary objectives leading into this book. Save Peeta. Kill Snow.

SHE ACCOMPLISHES NEITHER on a personal level. This also bothers me tremendously.

First of all, Katniss should have been a part of Peeta's rescue mission, period. Katniss is a fighter, especially when motivated by something meaningful to her. Instead she was in a bunker with Finnick, tying knots, waiting to hear about it from some one else. This happens a lot throughout the book. Katniss not really doing much, spending a lot of time in the hospital, or unconcious, and then hearing about how things happened after. This is not in character for her. Then she votes to hold a Hunger Games of the Capitol Leader's children???? She would never have done that. It was frustrating to read that.

The resolution with the love story is written in a sloppy and rushed manner. Gale takes a "Fancy" job in 2 and Peeta comes back to 12 where he and Katniss grow closer again. Gale, fancy? Huh???? I don't get it. I half expected one of the boys to die with a heroic passion to save Katniss, knowing the other would be there to continue to care for her.... something dramatic... not this. Katniss disconnects with Gale based on the possibility that his bomb design may have killed Prim, which HE doesn't even know. How doesn't he know if he helped to design a bomb that looked like the parachutes in the Games?? Thus leaving Katniss with Peeta by chance, not by choice. And that's it....? Oh, and Haymitch. So he moves back to 12 with her by order, and then they just don't talk anymore? Even when Peeta returns? Why?

If I had written this review immediately after finishing the book, I would have given it one star. I was not happy. But having some time to reflect, I feel like it's necessary to read in order to complete the trilogy. Yes, I am disappointed in the hastily developed details, but the story does provide closure on most things. Maybe not the way I wanted them to, but when has war ever provided a structured or satisfying outcome? If anything, I ended up caring about Peeta more than anyone else in the story, so for him to end up with Katniss to go on with life together and have children was a definite huge positive for me... the lingering PTSD symptoms they carry are a realistic detail. And while there were many moments where I felt like Katniss wasn't written in character, she also displayed that unpredictability we know her for on so many occasions. Like when she kills Coin. That had to happen I suppose, in the bigger scheme. Snow was sentenced and was going to be executed regardless. Katniss decided to off Coin because she knew that Coin was just as corrupt, and the viscious cycle would continue in Panem with Coin in control. So I was half satisfied, but more half empty.

I just hope that when the movie for this book is ready for production, and the story isn't portrayed strictly through Katniss's eyes, that we will finally see the things we missed - Peeta's rescue, the rebels overthrow the Capitol and Snow, maybe even Snow's trial or Katniss's trial.... I sincerely hope that Collins will help them shed light on these things, and also bring some drama and emotion with the deaths of Prim and Finnick. She owes her readers that much.
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thewanderingjew
3.0 out of 5 stars Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2012
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If you have not read the first two books in the series recently, you should go back and review them or you might find yourself adrift for awhile. I read both in 2009, which put me at a disadvantage. The author does not do a good job of orienting the reader with subtle hints or memories of the first two books, so often, the reader will be confused about what is being discussed, or what is happening, or about some of the characters and the parts they played. They are only reviewed in the most superficial of ways. Like the other two books in the series, violence is no stranger. The characters do not seem to have matured from their experiences and although this is an excellent endeavor in science fiction, this book is the weakest link in the group. Katniss seems to have an unrealistic nine lives, surviving and escaping, again and again, when everyone else succumbs. She fights to kill her peers but then balks at killing her enemies with righteous indignation.
After a failed people's revolution, the dystopian society of Panem, formerly North America, is ruled by the powerful residents living in the community called The Capitol where the power resides. Using the 12 slave communities to provide their needs, all things of value are at their disposal. The 12 communities, however, live in poverty, hand to mouth, without either many creature comforts, proper shelter or enough food to sustain them, except minimally. Each year, The Hunger Games are staged by The Capitol, as a reminder to them never to revolt against the authorities again. In the Hunger Games, two children from each community are pitted against each other in an arena in which they must all fight to the death, until there is only one survivor, in staged settings of horror and death.
This is a violent and bloody novel, horrific in the nature of the destruction, injuries and cruelty toward others, that it describes. Reading this final book, made me wonder why parents would allow young children to even read it. The concepts are too far above the emotional and mental maturity of a 10 year old, and yet many have been allowed to read it in order to feel cool, "in", and to make themselves and their parents pseudo-sophisticates, after all, they are all bright enough to read this book, originally designed for young adults, defined variously as 10-20 and 12-17. One surely has to realize that the age range is too broad and parental guidance should play a major role before such a book is placed in the hands of a 10 year old, and yet they are even reading it with their parents' blessings. How can the same concepts be appropriate for a ten year old and a twenty year old? It defies common sense.
This book gave me pause as I realized that we "hunger", to use the author's phrase, for such tragic and monstrous plots and then expose them, perhaps irresponsibly, to our young. What are we teaching them? Why do we want to them read this, creative and well written, as well it might be? What do we all hunger for? Do we want a form of escape or is it a form of wishful thinking? Do we want revenge; is it about class warfare; is it about fairness; is it about power? Whoever possesses it, is the winner, so perhaps, it is not really about righteousness and survival and a restructuring of David and Goliath, at all? Perhaps as Lord Acton (1834-1902), British historian, originally wrote: it is about the fact that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man." I thought that both adults and youths set a terrible example in this book. They all seemed self-serving and headstrong, thinking of nothing but their own needs, ultimately. That is a terrible lesson to teach the future of America.
I realize that this review may make me sound a bit condescending, but I don't feel that way. I feel genuinely sad that our children are being forced to grow up before their time, to read books inappropriate for them when there are so many wonderful stories out there without blood and gore that have just as much adventure and excitement. There are wholesome stories that reinforce healthy family and community values. It makes me wonder, is it any surprise that we have so much violent crime against each other, student against student, spouses against spouses, parents against children, so many random unexplainable killings? What example are we setting for them with our films and modern literature?
I used to think inappropriate sex, which has become so prevalent in books to entice readers, was the problem, but I see it is more complex than that. Today, it would seem that anything inappropriate is deemed worthwhile if it gets readers interested, no matter what the future consequences may be. I am a bit surprised that Scholastic Inc. has promoted this for the young.
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Angela
3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2011
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After reading this book, I must say I have mixed feelings about its quality. I understand and appreciate the author's desire to portray PTSD and the brutality of war. I think it's great to get young adults thinking about these issues and realizing that there are worse things to worry about than who came to so-and-so's party and who didn't last night. I thought the first book and, to a somewhat lesser degree the second book, did a fantastic job of that! But in Mockingjay, everything just felt forced. It felt as though the author first wrote down her theme (Why war is terrible and the real effects it has on people) and then wrote, making everything subservient to that theme.

I think we have to remember a few things here. This book is for young adults. And, this is a trilogy. One of my friends mentioned that as a stand alone book for adults, this would have been fair to middling. But the losses that are depicted are written so quickly and the young reader is not given any time to process or deal with them. Yes, that's how it works in the real world of battle. But there's a reason 14 year olds aren't heading into battles. And when they've spent months investing in a series and then have the level of content hatcheted up to a level too far above so many of them---it's just not fair. I think a some adults would have trouble dealing with the level of depression and despair in this novel. Teenagers already have such a high rate of depression, and their brains are literally not fully developed.

Also, there were so many loose ends not wrapped up. The ending of the book felt so rushed and incomplete. I'm not complaining that the author didn't spell everything out for readers. I think she just did a poor job with the writing. It was extremely anti-climactic, poorly put together, and unclear.

Just because a book is sad and depressing and makes you come away saying "Wow, war is awful" doesn't mean it's a good book. Was the writing good? Was the plot well-formulated? Were the characters gripping? It felt like the author was just holding in mind the thought that she wanted to blow readers away with depressing PTSD, and she made every other aspect of the book subservient to that theme. Look at any class or book or conference on how to write quality fiction---that's one of the worst mistakes you can make. The depressing theme also doesn't mean the book is realistic. In reality, I don't think Katniss would have been such a standout in terms of battle, when she's fighting with citizens from 13 who have been training for battle their whole lives. The idea that she alone has what it takes to take out Snow, and that everyone in her squad agrees with her, when in reality she's a 17-year-old girl in the grips of often-disabling PTSD who barely made it through basic training and is barely holding it together...has no previous battle experience (The Hunger Games are just not like a real combat unit---yes, there's death but the dynamic is completely different than a real military unit)...I just found myself thinking, "Seriously?" And that no one would have stepped in and stopped Peeta from being sent to the frontlines, when he was clearly so unfit for duty? No on stepped in to stop Prim from being sent to the frontlines? Not her mother? Not Haymitch? No one actually bothered to investigate what she was doing there even after she died? So much about this book was completely unrealistic. The rest of it was pointlessly depressing. Not the kind of depressing that makes a reader more empathetic in the future, or more understanding of how to avoid war. Just needlessly, pointlessly depressing. A lot of what I felt were such important points for kids to grasp were written so hazily that I think kids mostly missed them!

This book could have been soooo much better. I just feel the author really dropped the ball on on this one. I'm glad for those of you who enjoyed it. I just didn't have the same experience at all.
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John Otte
3.0 out of 5 stars A mostly unsatisfying ending to an otherwise excellent trilogy
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2010
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Well, well, well. Here we are, at the end of the road. And it's not at all what I hoped for. I placed my pre-order for Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay the minute I finished reading Catching Fire, hoping for a great conclusion, a story that ends with a major bang. Instead, I got a confused and somewhat muddled mess.

To be fair, there was a lot riding on this last book. The first two were so excellent and so gripping, Collins set a very high bar for herself. Sadly, she didn't reach it. The plot and character development meander quite a bit through the story as Katniss finds her place and her voice in the rebellion. There are parts that sparkle and I was left wondering what was going to happen with the whole Katniss-Gale-Peeta love triangle. But sadly, when I finished the book, I was left feeling . . . well, a bit empty. Not at all satisfied.

Now granted, I only finished reading the book about twelve hours ago, so I haven't had a lot of time to analyze what I've read and why I'm feeling so disappointed. But I have some preliminary thoughts I'd like to share.

First of all, there's what the book lacked: another Game. That's what truly made the first two books so special, the idea of the Districts sending their children into the Hunger Games. I was riveted through what happened to Katniss in the first book. When I read the second, I wondered how Collins would incorporate this unique concept again, hence why I was fascinated by the Quarter Quell, how similar and yet different it was from Katniss's first trip into the arena.

Collins doesn't send anyone into the Games this time. She does try to paint the on-going rebellion as a "Games-in-real-life" kind of thing by having Katniss followed around by a camera crew, but it's not the same. It's not even close. So there's the first problem: one of the things that made Collins's book so unique was missing.

Second, there's the focus. Collins seemed more interested in what was going on around Katniss than in Katniss and her emotional journey. When Peeta and Katniss were reunited, I was at first thrilled and then crushed (no spoilers here, I hope) but then Peeta faded into the background, barely registering. The same thing happens to Gale throughout the book. He's little more than an aggressive, war-mongering sidekick with no real emotional entanglement. Part of the zing of the first two books was the whole "love triangle" with Katniss, Peeta, and Gale. And even though the question is resolved in the end, it was done in such a haphazard way it didn't really feel like a resolution. Katniss didn't earn a resolution or even marginally participate in one. Instead, Collins just told us what the resolution was with very little build up or logic to it, especially given what happened to all the characters in the book.

Third, there's the sprinting. It almost feels as though Collins had a wordcount limit she couldn't exceed. She meandered through the rest of the book and, once the war was resolved, she realized she didn't nearly have enough space to finish the disparate story threads and do justice to them. But rather than go back and do some cutting, she simply sprinted through to the ending, skimming over major developments that, in my not-so-humble opinion, deserved deeper treatment. Once again, the resolution to the love triangle. Given how central that was to the first two books, it deserved to be featured a lot more and have at least a couple of chapters dedicated to its eventual resolution so we understand why Katniss does what she does and how she comes to her final conclusions.

All in all, it was an okay book. I really wish it could have been better, because I think Katniss deserved better given all that she's been through.
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