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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) |  | Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.4
ISBN: 0439023513
EAN: 9780439023511
ASIN: 0439023513
Publication Date: August 24, 2010 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
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 Disappointing September 7, 2010
Tonya Thurman (Atlanta, GA)
While this review is short, I must make it clear that I LOVED the first two books. I loaned them out and sang their praises. Like most other Hunger Games fans, I pre-ordered Mockingjay in February 2010 and waited six months for the arrival. And there - the day I found it in my mailbox, was the height of the excitement for Mockingjay. Katniss Everdeen was no longer inspiring, not a fighter - the TWO characteristics that made her THE STORY. ****SPOILER ALERT**** Sure, the fight was taken from her when she couldn't get to Peeta, but when finally... when he was returned from his totally anti-climatic rescue, she behaved as a spoiled child - the one thing she was never. I won't go on with specifics, I will just point out what so many others have - I wasn't looking for an "everybody's happy" ending, but the wasn't one twist, not one amazing turn. The ending was the downer of the year - this book ruined the first two.
Disappointing... SPOILERS September 7, 2010
justanotherbooklover (texas)
Wow. Like many others out here, I wanted to like this book. I had some reservations after Catching Fire, but middle books often lag a little in comparison to their earlier and later counterparts. This book was completely soulless. I am sorry. I know there is a reviewer going around telling everyone who gave the book a 2 that we shouldn't have expected a Disney ending and I am telling you I didn't expect one either. It cannot be denied that there is a stark difference in the tone and character development between the Hunger Games and Mockingjay. If I didn't know better, I would say someone else wrote Mockingjay.
I am glad that there those who found something uplifting in this book. I didn't. When I think of the difference between the death of Rue and the death of Prim, its like there is no connection between them. Rue was a symbolic version of Prim and what would have happened to her if she had been the one to participate in the Games. You feel her death and Kat's reaction to her death. She is devastated and yet she uses that emotion to continue forward. By the time Prim dies in this book, you no longer care. In fact, the writing is so poor, I wasn't even sure that she was dead. It is like this with all the characters. You no longer care.
What is worse, is that major characters have undergone significant changes. Peeta has become a rabid hater of Katniss. Of course, by the end of the book he goes from wanting to kill her, to living next door to her peacefully, and then on to marriage. What? How did that occur? Was he healed in the Capitol? If so, how? We aren't even told how he survived the final battle in the Capitol. He just appears in 12 six months later as a totally subdued character.
Gale is another person who starts to act out of character. Now, he isn't just a rebel soldier... he is a terrorist willing to kill children to win the war. I mean, setting off a bomb just to get people grouped together so that another bomb can go off and raise the death toll... this is textbook Al Qaeda... If Collins is in anyway implying that troops from civilized countries such as the US use this tactic, she is seriously deluded.
Katniss becomes just a shell of her former self. It was like Collins found a pamphlet about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in soldiers and wrote this new Katniss based on the information she found within it. Yes, war is a terrible thing, but so is long term oppression. Is Collins trying to say that political oppression is okay as long as you have just enough food to live and a place to hang your hat? Yes, it would be better if we could all just sit down and negotiate our freedom, but it doesn't work that way. Personally, I really enjoy mine and am grateful to those who protect it. I found this whole portrayal of military life really insulting. What happened the Kat in the Hunger Games was morally reprehensible because it was forced on her against her will. The decision to fight as a rebel is a choice that she makes on her own.
I could go on and on but I won't. I gave this a 2 because it is readable and I know all fans of the series will want to finish it. Just know that you are not alone if you find it disappointing. I understand from reading the comments that there is a movie version coming and if that is true, I will pass. I think I know what all of this will be turned into once Hollywood gets its hands on this. Sad ending to a great a story.
 No Spoilers September 7, 2010
KatiebMundieMom
Catching Fire left me in shock, and Mockingjay just wowed me. I'm not sure how else to describe it. Mockingjay takes us right into war, and it's not pretty, but when is war ever pretty!?! Suzanne Collins does a brilliant job at bringing to life a darker world with the ugliness of war, the politics, the lies, the suffering and yes, even the small glimmer of hope that comes from a movement backed by a few people, called rebels.
Mockingjay isn't a light-hearted read. It's the darkest of the trilogy that has my mind still reeling from the events, the revelations and what's really been happening during the span of the entire series and it's "games". Put your seat belt on and be prepared for surprises, revelations, anguish, triumph, raw emotion, heartbreak, "YES!" moments, bittersweet moments, and an end that left me feeling that Katniss's story was complete.
Mockingjay wraps up the Hunger Games trilogy with love and loss, triumph and destruction, and every emotion in between there. Where many characters would curl up in the fetal possession and give up, Katniss's inner strength carries her on in the face of so much turmoil. Mockingjay will be talked about and discussed for a long time. It's thought provoking and emotional. While Mockingjay gave me answers, I was also left thinking about what I read days after I finished the book.
If you enjoyed The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, wait until you read Mockingjay! If you haven't already, be sure to go pick up your copy today!!!
 MockingJay September 7, 2010
Kathryn
I was disappointed with this book. I really liked the first two books, but this one was a disappointment. I was wondering through the whole book if the author had a deadline and rushed through it. It seems like she was going off about things that was not important in this book. and left out alot of stuff that should have been written.
Less than satisfying ending to the trilogy September 7, 2010
T. Hayes (Fort Worth, TX)
A major disappointment. The ending seems rushed and cobbled together. WARNING: Possible Spoiler Ahead. The climactic scene becomes a mere afterthought when the results of that scene had significant ramifications for all of Panem and the protagonist, Katniss. Yet the author explains everything away in just a few paragraphs. The description of Katniss' life after the climax is summarized and incongruent, as if the author had a deadline to meet, or had only so many pages with which to fit it all in.
But the ending wasn't the only problem I had with this book. Katniss spends way too much time throughout the novel a)kicking and screaming while being hauled off to be sedated, b) under the influence of "morphling," which the author conveniently uses as a device to ignore whole parts of the story, and c) contemplating her love triangle (by the end I was hoping both beaus would be killed off just to stop it. Instead, the author, again, summarizes the fate of both Peeta, and especially Gale, with few words).
I had high hopes, but Mockingjay left me feeling like a good story had been stolen from me.
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