#3 Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

by Suzanne Collins

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The rebels have managed to save Katniss from the Games before it is too late, but what about Peeta? Was he killed during the rescue, or worse, was he taken by the Capitol? He would be better off dead.

District 12 had been destroyed by the Capitol and the survivors are hiding with the rebels in the remains of District 13.

The rebellion is still using Katniss as their figurehead in their movement against the Capitol. But is the leader of the rebellion any better than the President? Will they be exchanging one dictator for another?

This was a horrible final story to a very good series. I can’t imagine that I am the only one disappointed in this story. After all that she’s gone through, Katniss has very little character growth. In fact I was frustrated in her complete lack of personality. I can understand when we started the Hunger Games she was a 16 year old with limited life experience, but after all she’s gone through, she still displays no real range of emotions. She flip-flops throughout the series between Gabe and Peeta, never really showing any preference toward either, and only thinking which one will be more hurt if she chooses the other. She has some moments of brilliance, but mostly she mopes around and hides in the closet. They said it in the prior stories, Peeta and his love for Katniss, makes Katniss likeable. Since Peeta is missing, what we see is simply Katniss and there is not much there.

Put aside everything that happens to poor Peeta in this story, which is just heartbreaking, most of what happens during in Mockingjay, is all brought on by Katniss’s actions and decisions, and turns out to be a waste of time and lives. In fact, everything that happened in this story was for nothing and everyone would have been better off if Katniss had stayed in her closet for the whole story. Since this is a first-person story, she literally spends weeks on end locked in a room and we the readers have nothing but her rambling thoughts which, again from the lack of emotions she shows, doesn’t really give us too much.

I was very disappointed in this third story. After two really good stories, this was such a let down. I wanted to toss the whole trilogy in the trash. When people ask me about it, I truly hesitate to recommend it since you can’t tell them to stop before they read the third book.

If you think I got it wrong, please tell me what I missed in this last story.

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