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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:  457 reviews
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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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 It's Confusing September 7, 2010
tngirl
The way Suzanne Collins finished this story suprised me. I was preparred for something unusual but not this. I still recomend this book but keep in mind that it will suprise you and may be confusing.
 How could this series have a fairy-tale ending? September 6, 2010
Eric Sawyer (Portsmouth, NH)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
No spoilers in this review. I hate it when reviewers do that! I really liked this series in total. Thought the first book was really good. Think this one is probably the weakest of the series, but a very good finish overall. Anyone looking for a fairy-tale ending to the series is missing the whole point, I think. The author is looking at the effects of war, violence, autocratic government, and being a pawn in the games of the powerful and amoral. The point is that if you make it through this meat-grinder, you are damaged by it down to your very core. Listen to some of the men coming back from Iraq and Afganistan and you will hear echoes of this message.
Collins is a good writer who keeps the action coming. I compare this series to the Ender books, although I think OS Card is a better writer. I enjoyed the major plot twists. Collins created an interesting future world although the scale of the districts seams strangely small. Enjoyed the exploration of "Bread and Circus" along with fear to control a population. The characters in Katniss's prep team are memorable and provide needed humor while also displaying the differences between the district and capital lifstyles.
Overall, very glad I read this series and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a more sci-fi type of work.
 Did Collins really write this? September 6, 2010
O. Lindy (Clearwater, FL)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book was so different from the first two; those I couldn't put down but Mockingjay, well, I had a hard time finishing it. It was so dang depressing. First of all, the characters that I'd come to know and care about were not the same people. The things I loved about Katniss in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire were her strength and her wisdom. Those are missing in this book. She acts like a moody teenager - rebellious, whiny, weak-minded, shirking responsibilities, hiding from everyone and no-one - she wore on me quickly. Gale did not match the image I had constructed of him while reading the first two books: a quiet, strong loner; here he is a bloodthirsty warmonger. And don't even get me started on Peeta. What Collins did to Peeta is completely unforgivable.
The book is a jumble of action and boredom. Some points that seem to be important to the plot are glossed over and others are rushed and not explained well. The pace of the story is frenetic at times and then crawls over the next scene which makes reading it unpleasant. Then throw in the deaths and mutilations of many secondary characters that I had grown to care about and it almost feels like a slap in the face. Awful, awful to read. I felt emotionally distant from this book and I really didn't care what happened to Katniss in the end. Which I suppose is a good thing since the ending is utterly ridiculous.
I think Ms. Collins should have taken more time to write this, or her editors should have done a better job with the pace and the character consistency. With one book, they managed to turn a gripping series into a total disappointment. The Hunger Games was a fantastic read, Catching Fire was a decent sequel, Mockingjay was, well, a travesty. It could have been so much more. Do yourself a favor and stop at book 1. Let your imagination take you to life after Katniss' and Peeta's win in the arena. You will be much better off.
 So disappointed that I felt like I was hit in the gut with a spear. September 6, 2010
A reader (USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This review is from: Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) (Hardcover)
Rue came to a better end than this series did.
I held off reading HG and CF thinking the YA distinction wouldn't appeal to me. Then I happened to pick up Hunger Games and tore through it in one day. Immediately read through Catching Fire and queued up with everyone else awaiting Mockingjay.
It took me three days to read the book because I kept setting it down and saying a little prayer that it would somehow improve when I came back to it. No such luck.
It was so slow, meandering; the characters were unsympathetic (even familiar faces); and the end was unsatisfying. Collins had written Katniss as such an interesting character for me: both flawed and struggling yet strong and tenacious. What happened? I didn't expect Katniss to remain unchanged but her transformation through book 3 seemed bizarre and disjointed.
How I miss the thrill of the first two books.
Interesting Start, but Bad Ending September 6, 2010
Matt Boren
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed The Hunger Games very much, with its intensely dark dysopian mood and intense action, coupled with interesting ideas of rebellion and the promise of a couple of thrilling sequels. I waited eagerly for the next book. I found Catching Fire a bit redundant but extremely cool at the end, and immediatly began checking the library site every day to be sure I put a hold on the final book as soon as possible.
This book began interestingly, introducing the new setting of District Thirteen and immediatly giving insight into the current situation, coupled with rising tensions within the districts. However, the end dissapointed me intensely. Collins had been building up to the final climactic challenge between Snow and Katniss quite nicely, but she suddenly cut off the attack and prevented Katniss from ever having her real confrontation with Snow. Very anti-climactic. As if that wasn't enough, Collins proceeded to kill Katniss' sister, Prim, without really needing to. This later became the basis of Katniss' decision to send the captured children of the Capitol to Thirteen's OWN Hunger Games, just to get back at them for what they did. I was dissapointed by this moral plunge, as I had come to rely on Katniss as a constant throughout the books. Oh, and then there's Katniss' decision to kill Coin instead of Snow. A complete fiasco at the end, and a very dissapointing end to a promising series.
If you simply HAVE to know how it all ends, then I guess you could get it from the library, but I wouldn't even waste my time on that. I definetly don't reccomend buying this book.
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