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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) |  | Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  508 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
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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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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 Failure all over it... September 10, 2010
N.Yorker (NYC)
With "Mockinjay" one realizes that the point of trilogies is to ruin the last book. I can not see how Collins could have made this much worse. Kill Katniss? She might as well have since she is asleep, crying, in a coma, or something else for the entirety of the book. And she ends up dead inside anyway. KIll Peeta? She actually did. Not physically or anything like it. But she destroyed the character from the first two books and for what? He is literally a killing zombie. Kill Gale? Again, she might as well have since he is no longer the same character. The good friend turns out to the one who kills prim. Kill Prim - the main driving force of the series? Yeah, she does.
All in all, this last book is a complete waste of time since nothing happens as it should. Whenever readers can come up with a better ending for a series, then you know the author has done nothing memorable. And if this is in any way memorable, it's because it is such a terrible conclusion to the first two installments.
The violence, the war, the suffering is what drives the first two books. But there is also love. There is katniss and there is peeta. This last book has no katniss, no peeta and no gale. There is no conversation long enough to captivate the heart. There is no hope long enough to inspire a future. There is no fixing of a broken mother and daughter strained relationship. And if all good human qualities are nonexistent, what is the point of this book? All the emotion and all the love and all the hope of a future are left for the last two pages in a summary so short as if it's bone thrown for a starved dog. But it doesn't satiate the hunger. It doesn't heal the violence. Katniss has an "insane-psychotic" peeta, two kids and a broken, empty heart that nothing can heal.
Great book!!!
 Ouch September 10, 2010
Becca M. (Colorado)
This book left me feeling like I'd been punched in the stomach. It was nothing like the first two. Much darker. Much heavier. And while there were flashes of brilliance (the scene at the end when Katniss yells at the cat had me bawling) most of it was depressingly mediocre! The plot plodded. The actions of the last quarter of the book turned out to be pointless. The Peeta-Katniss-Gale love triangle is finally resolved, but not because Katniss finally makes a choice and fights for that choice. Rather she just accepts what gets dumped in her lap! Ugh. I can't hate this book because I love the first two so well but, really Suzanne Collins? You're a better writer than this.
 Worst ending and major disappointment. September 10, 2010
Nessa
*Spoilers for this awful book*
I loved the first two books, but this book just fell flat and dead. I hated the politics it took, I hated who the author decided to kill off leaving Katniss with nobody who she could depend on and taking away from her the only people who ever meant anything to her. And in the end you are left with two damaged characters who never truly cared for each other left to raise damaged kids.
 Manage Your Expectations September 10, 2010
Bryce Cundick (Farmington, ME USA)
So I've now read Mockingjay, the finale to Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games series. What did I think? Well, I don't want to spoil any part of the book for those who haven't read it yet, but I think I'm safe saying this: I feel like the first book in the trilogy was jaw-droppingly fantastic. The concept is so easy to understand and so well executed. Young girl must kill other children in a fight to the death that's broadcast on national television. Oh yeah--and she doesn't want to kill anyone. The t ...more So I've now read Mockingjay, the finale to Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games series. What did I think? Well, I don't want to spoil any part of the book for those who haven't read it yet, but I think I'm safe saying this: I feel like the first book in the trilogy was jaw-droppingly fantastic. The concept is so easy to understand and so well executed. Young girl must kill other children in a fight to the death that's broadcast on national television. Oh yeah--and she doesn't want to kill anyone. The tension in that book is extreme, and it's a blast to read.
The other two books in the series are still good books, but they're just not at that same level. They start delving into other areas, areas where it's just not as believable to me that a young girl could make as big of a difference as Kat makes in these books. Plus, she starts turning into a pawn used by other people. Yes, she still sticks up for herself and makes her own decisions, but part of the greatness of the first book was that it was wholly believable to me that she'd be able to do what she did in that book. The "rules" were very clearly defined, and she played according to those rules, and won.
The rules in the second two books got much blurrier. "Winning" became much more relative. Does that make the books worse? Not on its own, but because those same rules were what made the first book so great, the loss of them removes that potential for greatness, in my opinion.
So the final two books are still very good, but they're just as good as other dystopian sci-fi YA novels. Not nearly as memorable as The Hunger Games. Would I recommend them? Certainly. I thoroughly enjoyed myself throughout them.
Just keep those expectations in check.
 Amazing! September 10, 2010
Brooke loves books!
I don't care what anyone else says the book was sooo totally amazing! It was a perfect ending to one of the greatest trilogies ever! As you read you feel as if you are experiencing everything right there along with Katniss, the heart break, the betrayal, the pain and angry especially at the end when she really finds out what happened to Prim, you just want to sit there and cry along with her. Yes its disappointing what happens with her and Gales relationship because the lost of such a great friendship is never an easy thing to see but in the end it makes scene why it had to happen, she couldn't have Gale and Peeta she had to end up being with the one she truly couldn't live without. And the last couple of paragraphs I mean come on NO ONE could have expected that to happen ever, but that's what made the end perfect how everything turned for the amazingly strong girl that was "The Girl On Fire". Move over Twilight The Hunger Game are coming up quick you better watch your back! P.S. can't even wait till the movies start coming out.
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