Mockingjay question

At first I did feel annoyed by Katniss. I didn't think she deserved all of the attention and affection from so many people she did not return. I thought she was a whiny Bella-ish character. But I thought more about it and really, she has been through so much. She had such a horrible tragedy of a life. Losing her father at such a young age, having to provide for a family, having to play in those horrible games and then with that not even being enough she had to go back again and then watch more people she cares about die before her very eyes. I forgive her for being a little bit of a whiner. I would probably be a miserable person to be around if that all had happened to me too.

You are really stupid if you detest Katniss. She was just a human and a really brave one. I love her and she is my heroine.

Yes. The ending was truly horrible in my opinion. The series, in my opinion, started out amazing and then went into a spiraling downfall until it was finished.

I just found it so stupid and pathetic that everyone either left or died. Nothing really changed. And after she fought her life away and lost everything that she cherished, she's pretty much just like 'well now that that's over, i'm just going to mope'. AND the ending was not only rushed, but it completely went against everything Katniss ever believed in. Making the capital children do one last hunger games- fucking stupid. Settling down with Peeta and having children- more fucking stupid. Being a whiny mopey bitch and a shame to her sisters death- so fucking stupid it defies logic.

HATED HER
it's like she turned into her mom
i'm all for realism but you shouldn't start a depressing book and end it depressingly
she's this sad, shell of a woman and she ended up with someone who I didn't believe was like "the one"

Katniss is a normal person. We all have something people like and something people hate. I think she was just being human and Peeta made her more likeable than detestable

I didn't detest her as much as ms Collins' seemingly rushing to end the book. A lot of things she did were very out of character.

I didn't detest her, but I did find her character's development very disappointing. While I understand that the psychological damage of the games was a truthful account of human character, I didn't like the fact that she descended into this ball of mess whose main concern was the affection of two male characters. It was giving me twilight crap which I HATE. In the first book she made it clear that the love triangle drama was something she wanted because she actually had to focus on trying not to die. For some reason this seems to have been forgotten in the 2nd and 3rd books because Collins decided to play the love triangle arc, and not very well I might add. I thought the ending was brilliant of course, typical of a dystopia series, no happy endings. Katniss could've been something greater.

The thing that happened for me--and I'm looking from a writer's perspective--is that in book 3 the author stopped building her characters. It was almost as if she thought, "Well, everybody already knows them, so I'll just concentrate on getting the plot down." None of the characters felt particularly satisfying to me in book three which was a letdown since I pre-purchased Mockingjay, something I rarely do. The last book could have been phenomenal with the introduction of District 13, but rather than building to a riveting crescendo, it fizzled. That being said, series books are a challenge. One book is inevitably weaker than the others, usually, however, it's book 2.

The first time I did, but the second time I read it I didnt

Like someone else said, I found her very human. She's not perfect and she never was. To me she was an emotional wreck for most of the book but that's what makes the book so good, it's believable. She isn't a robotic character. She makes mistakes and there were times in that book that I was annoyed by her actions of choices. The only point where I would say I "detested" her was when she voted to send the capitol kids into a hunger games. However when she killed Coin that pretty much canceled that out and then I liked her again.

at the end yes like why would she have the future children compete in the games? She didn't even want to do it herself. And her children won't have to do it wich makes it more selfish.

YES!!!!!!!!
she was such a little childish b**ch
i cant believe that she said yes for the capitols children hungergames
"for prim" she says
LIKE HELL!!!!
PRIMM WOULD NEVER WANT THAT !!!!!!!!!
with her angel heart
GO EFF OFF KATNIP!!!!

I was really annoyed by her by the middle of Mockingjay. I got even more annoyed by the end.

Yes, I'm not the only one! I thought I was. But yes I started liking her less and less throughout the rest of the trilogy. She was becoming annoying, crazy, and she felt sorry for herself way too much.

I hate Katniss. I can't identify with her at all.

I don't dislike Katniss. She was real. Obviously suffering from PTSD. I was disappointed with the sudden and abrupt way the final book ended, but then I thought about it.... If I had experienced this kind of hell, when it was over for me, I'd want it to be over, done, no reflection, no thinking, no nothing... that was Katniss at the end, that was how Collins wrote it. That kind of trauma never ends. You live with it everyday and Collins gave us that gift also.

I feel a bit late to the party, but I need to add my 2 cents.
I couldn't believe that Suzanne Collins took such an amazingly strong female character and turned her into such a blubbering mess in Mockingjay. It just frustrated me to see how she this strong female fighter basically spent most of this book in the psych ward. I get that she was traumatized, but her whole life up until this point was horrendous and she was still strong and admirable. Mockingjay turned her into a "victim" and really, for me, ruined Katniss.

I wanted to kill her myself. Toying with ppls emotions and just being a whiney butt. UGH!!!!

why?

YES. When I first started the series, I wasn't sure how to feel about her. I decided I would like her because of what she did for Prim and she started to grow on me. I even liked her in Catching Fire. Then, out of no where really, as the series progressed and we got partially into Mockingjay, I just wanted to strangle her. Her decisions bothered me all the time and I couldn't take it... so, yea. I basically detested her by the end.