Mockingjay (#3)

[Tami]

The book actually bored me. It took me about three months to finish it. I actually read the Divergent while reading Mockingjay. The last couple chapters and the epilogue were pretty good. It just started slow and didn't catch my attention as fast as it should have.

[Tami]

Y'all. The trailer made me have a super fan girl moment. I didn't really enjoy the book until the end but this movie looks fab.

[Jessica]

I enjoyed reading it that's for sure even though there were some sad parts. But the whole was pretty slow and everything got crammed into the last couple of pages. I really didn't like that but Suzanne Collins writing was amazing apart from that

[bean]

Personal opinion: the movie was infinitely better then the book. At least, part 1. The clothes and the makeup and everything...it was a lot better then I expected.

Julianne Moore as Coin = YES

The book, I didn't enjoy it. It started okay, but the ending was AWFUL. Katniss impulsively kills Coin, Prim dies (defeating the purpose, as everything Katniss did was to protect her sister), and we're never told what happens with the government.

But honestly, the killing of Coin bothers me SO much. Katniss proves she's no better than the Capital. She's supported Coin's ideas--for example, she, FREELY CHOSE to vote for subjecting the children of the Capital to the Hunger Games. SHE cast the deciding vote. And yet, eventually, when she realizing that this is just going to perpetuate the cycle & no one's going to feel better, she just up & shoots Coin.

Can someone please shoot Katniss in an epilogue or something I'm not okay with this.

[[deleted user]]

Honestly, I have re-read Mockingjay so many times, and I still don't know what to make of it. All in all the character development was probably the best part of the book for me. What drove me crazy was the fact that while Katniss may have been the mascot for the revolution, she didn't actually fight any battles that were major turning points in the war. Every time a little bit of action happened, Katniss was injured, then she woke up in the hospital in 13. However, some parts were amazing and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time!

[Jazzy]

All my favorite characters are dead or go insane, the entire book has a gloomy outlook, the ending feels way too peaceful after the traumatic affair that was the whole book until then, and I don't know what to do now. I often look to books as an escape but this was like reality getting shoved back in my face. I felt physically sick after reading it.

Realistic of war, yes. Heartbreaking, also yes.

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I watched part 1 but it wasn't really good. Can't wait for part 2 tho.

[Piper]

I LOVED MOCKINGJAY! Though I definitely feel I need to read it again as I feel I missed some parts because they were confusing.

[Butterfly]

Katniss was like a new person. I hoped she would have a stronger opinion and do more what she thinks is right...But instead she was more or less bullied to do things. Gale? Yeah, where was Gale? I felt like they exchanged him for a war enthusiast. I liked the Gale a lot more who was friendly and hunted with Katniss...It was horrible that Finnick died. The character really grow on me and I loved him. And then: BAM! He is dead...It was horrible that no one seemed to care that he was dead though he did so much :(.
And, yes! The end, that was pretty depressing...Especially the part in which Prim died and Katniss seemed to have no hope that anything would change for the better...
I really don't know why there was a love triangle. It was rather disappointing for me that the hero has to decide again whom she loves (as if this wasn't obviously in the beginning).I also was tired to read that Katniss saw no hope that anything will change in the future. I hoped the book would have an uplifting, positive end and though Katniss and Peeta had a family, I missed the happiness which should be there then. The end felt like they (especially Katniss) lost their souls and can't be glad about a single thing in life ;(.And it also annoyed me that it was such an abrupt end...I liked other parts though so I can't say I hated the book. I only hoped that some parts were different. I loved how Prim was described as a brave character because I really like her character.
Perhaps there was no chance that the book could have ended in a different way. Maybe this was the best of possible ends. But it was too realistic in my taste like Jazzy said. And though it is understandable how she suffered, I hoped that she would feel better with having a family and love. I also tend to read books because I want to escape the real world and I hoped that the book could have displayed more that people also can change and so their lives to the positive, too, even if this takes time.

[Hermione]

(No spoilers. I promise.) Mocking jay was my favorite book of the series. I loved it! But if you have seen the movie, at the end, what was with the dress she was wearing!? I mean, Katniss is bad***! Not a fairy princess or some little princess loving kindergartener for Gods Sake! She would never were a YELLOW DRESS WITH FLOWERS ON IT!!! (You'll know this from in the book. If this IS a spoiler, you shouldn't be here, because we are supposed to be writing if we like the book, so you should have read it.) Also, at the end, Katniss started to hate Gale, because everyone thinks that Gale's bomb went off to late, and it _ _ _ _ _ _ Prim. But they don't even know if it was Gal's bomb! She didn't hate like Peeta or someone when Finnick _ _ _ _! I guess it was a little different since it is her sister but still!

But those are the only parts really I disliked. Tell me what you think!

[Sarah]

I think Katniss should have stayed with Gale. She doesn't fit anywhere with Peeta. I think the author could've done better with this. A love triangle wasn't what the book needed. The book in itself needed Katniss to have someone to hold her up and tell her to keep going. SHE was going to run away with Gale in the first book. She shouldn't have all of a sudden went to Peeta.

[Samantha]

I agree with Jazzy. The ending did seem a bit too peaceful considering all that had happened beforehand. I still thought it was a good book and all but there should have been some like damage still there from the war. In the district and in them.