Review: Mockingjay {Final Book in The Hunger Games Trilogy} by Suzanne Collins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

From Goodreads.

• Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.

• Release Date: August 24th, 2010

• My Copy: eBook version, personally bought.

• Pages: 400

• Series: The Hunger Games Trilogy

• Genre: Y.A. Dystopian Fantasy

• Author's Website

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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) - Library Edition

*Contains Spoilers if you haven’t read The Hunger Games or Catching Fire.

After all the painful wait the conclusion to the amazing Hunger Games trilogy has arrived. I just finished Mockingjay a couple minutes ago after spending all night reading it and I have to say it was more then worth it.

Katniss Everden has gone through more tragedies and tribulations than you would think possible for a 17 year-old. She has gone through not only one Hunger Games, but two in the past year and not her home and all that she has know have gone up in flames and she is the symbol of a revolution that she accidentally started.

The war is full on and in Mockingjay we finally meet the mysterious District 13 and it’s nothing like I imagined it would be. The whole war is being controlled from the bowels of the underground system that comprise Panem’s former military installations and at the leadership position we have President Coin. Now, I have to say that from the first moment she appeared in the book, I absolutely disliked her, she just gave me a creepy vibe and just reminded me of a more outwardly tamer version of the ruthless leader of the Capitol, President Snow.

Mockingjay is not as full of action as The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, but only by a very small margin. One of the things I most enjoyed about it was the in depth view we got of Katniss state of mind throughout the book. I have only one word for out heroine for a lot of Mockingjay, MESS! I am not criticizing her, she has all the right to be a mess, the destruction and deaths caused by the war just keep on piling up and being pullen in a hundred different directions is not something easy to deal with.

However, regardless of how much of a mess Katniss is, she braves through and rises in the story, showing how much she has grown since the first book. I love her braveness, loyalty and fearlessness even though I felt like punching her at times.

I really don’t want to spoil anything because I believe that the enjoyment of Mockingjay, is very much connected to it’s power to surprise you, so I will make this review shorter than I feel it could be and keep clear from plot points.

The Hunger Games trilogy is an YA series, but it is not an easy one to read, specially Mockingjay. At it’s core is some very powerful political and social criticism that cannot be ignored. Our society’s obsession with perfect beauty, corruption of power and selfishness, just to name a few. The people of the Capitol are a gruesome and scary look at what out society’s future might be if we get out of hand in idolizing fake beauty and plastic surgery.

The death toll in Mockingjay is indescribable, if I thought J.K. Rowling was brave to kill beloved characters by the end of the Harry Potter series, I have to say that Suzanne Collins is fearless. She does not pull punches and no one is safe. I cried and suffered with Katniss and loved every minute of it.

Mockingjay is the end of an amazing trilogy that I will miss dearly. Suzanne Collins had given life to so many wonderful and rich characters that I could not help but fall in love with and I just wish we could read more about them. But, I LOVED the ending and I feel she has closed this remarkable trilogy just as it should be and I just know that these will be books that I will read and re-read over and over again for the rest of my life.

If you haven’t read this trilogy yet, I seriously suggest you do something about it really soon, I could not recommend it enough!

 

 

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Previously in The Hunger Games Trilogy:

Check out my review of The Hunger Games HERE!

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Check out my review of Catching Fire HERE!

 

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