Book Review - Mockingjay

MOCKINGJAYThe Hunger Games Book Three
Suzanne Collins2010, 390 pages, eBook, YA Dystopian

Book three in the Hunger Games Series is better than two, but still seems like it was hashed together off of what the author was told should happen, not what would have happened if the author had planned it from the beginning. I don't know if that makes sense, but MOCKINGJAY felt like it was plotted by a committee that decided certain things had to happen, certain characters had to do specific things and a last minute change in love interest enacted. Bah.
Part of the problem is that the entire book revolved around a manipulated, not very likeable girl being used to inspire a rebellion by a section of the world that never existed until they suddenly needed to be there to move the plot along. The book is told from her point of view, but she never really does anything, so the entire rebellion takes place offscreen while she frets about boys and hides in closets without ever really taking things into her own hands.
Then it ends anticlimactically with a couple of poorly handled deaths, ludicrous booby traps in highly populous areas and the last third of the book functioning as an epilogue that doesn't feel fulfilling.   
If this sounds like I hated the book, I do, kind of. I hated it afterwards, but during the actual reading, I enjoyed myself. Collins is a good author, regardless of the plot and silliness therein. Disappointing finish to an interesting world never really properly explored.  

2/5