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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

Suzanne Collins

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: January 31, 2015

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Aug 24, 2010 Kate rated it really liked it

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My response? I'm numb from all that war. I worked with refugees for years and this story has left me in the same state I used to get into after a tough day of work, jangling with a secondary PTSD -- a veryveryvery faint echo of what they experience.

So. Anyway. I'm still curled up with that and unable to catch the cleverness or plot twists or whatever. I keep trying to hold onto the last few lines of the epilogue -- the way Katniss does.

The ending felt rushed. We'd worked so hard to ...more

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Feb 10, 2010 Angie Taylor rated it it was amazing

Just finished this again, reading it to my kids! It was awesome to share this series with them. April 2020

I read this again for the 3rd time. I love it more and more each time I do. 2013

Well, I finished and I really loved it. I am still a little emotional about the whole thing, and I think that is because the entire book is about innocence lost and the horrible things humans do to each other in the name of a good cause. I was a little disappointed that there were parts of the book that felt like ...more

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Jan 31, 2012 J. Lynn Else rated it it was ok

Is it that Collins' gets lost in the storyline? Did she just want to finish everything? It was a lot of things, but this book was a sore disappointment compared to the first two books.

The book focuses on the methods and justifications of war including the sacrifices we tolerate against an enemy. Fascinating exploration for a while, but it overshadows the books we have loved previously. There is no more Katniss that I could recognize.

Katniss is nothing but a tool who makes no decisions about he Is it that Collins' gets lost in the storyline? Did she just want to finish everything? It was a lot of things, but this book was a sore disappointment compared to the first two books.

The book focuses on the methods and justifications of war including the sacrifices we tolerate against an enemy. Fascinating exploration for a while, but it overshadows the books we have loved previously. There is no more Katniss that I could recognize.

Katniss is nothing but a tool who makes no decisions about her ever-present "love" triangle. She seems, actually, to feel nothing for anyone except her sister. In the end, a decision is inadequately made and "explained" in one brief bland sentence. Its the biggest let down of the storyline! You wait the entire series for her to come to a decision of the man she discovers that she loves, and its given no emotional revelation! She ends up never facing and dealing with her feelings, something I thought the character would develop into. She ends up never really growing as a character. She also never comes to the realization that she's turned into her mother and is doing the things she once despised her for!

Katniss is, as I said, a tool. Reading all the propo stuff they were doing, it felt like I was reading a Captain America novelization. I kept thinking, we've already explored these grounds with other franchises. Collins created something new with this series, and I was extremely saddened in this final installment as it seemed to be rehashed material that completely changed the series the audience connected with. Peeta's absence is missed! There was no balance between all the madness in this book.

Another frustrating plot point is when Katniss chooses to lead her team to assassinate Snow. Most of her team ends up dying horribly (including some beloved favorites!), and then the rebels end up meeting them at the Capitol building anyway! Its like her journey was for nothing. She did nothing except get people killed and become someone easily manipulated. Katniss did not grow or change or end up doing anything truly significant in this book. I closed the book very let down and sad that this was what Katniss turned out to be. It’s a heartbreaking book, chilling, haunting, and intense, but in the end, the character is what matters, and she did not seem to really grow in any emotional or meaningful way. ...more

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Nov 25, 2010 Ahtims rated it liked it

Shelves: borrowed, young-adult, scifi-utopia-dystopia

Finally ended the series. My liking for the series progressively declined, the third one being least liked. I could not have tolerated a fourth book. This one ties up most loose threads, Pan Am as such is destroyed, or perhaps not? The autocrats are taken care of, the Hunger games totally banned, and Katniss and Peta decide upon a non-controversial life. Gayle is still the warrior, bent upon setting things right. The epilogue of the book gives us a glimpse of the future events.

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Dec 28, 2010 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: grade-b, books-i-own, ya, part-of-a-series, dystopian, read-in-2012, disappointing

Ahhh! This book riled up so many emotions! It was definitely a page turner and I found myself compulsively turning the pages just to find out what would happen to my beloved characters.

Honestly, I was SO disappointed. I HATED how Collins chose to end the series and almost felt cheated out of the entire ending. I seriously think that this book needed to be twice as long in order to for the reader to experience the story without feeling rushed (especially at the end). I found myself not even reali ...more

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Feb 21, 2012 Devin rated it really liked it

As a trilogy, these books do pull the reader through all three books as if they were one novel. The narrator/protagonist is believable and sympathetic and the ending is unpredictable. Which makes the marathon read of all three over just a few days satisfying. This is a vivid bit of story telling and I can understand the phenomenon.

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