Mockingjay, the final book in the groundbreaking New York Times bestselling Hunger Games series, is now available with brand-new cover art from the fourth film! Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived. But her home has been destroyed. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. . . . Can Katniss become the rebels’ Mockingjay–no matter what the personal cost?This is … cost?This is the original and unforgettable Mockingjay novel with spectacular new movie artwork from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on the cover. Plus, additional bonus content! The book includes the official trailers of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2!
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A great end to the Hunger Games series! I love these books so much!
The end is worth it.
You really appreciate the events Katniss has witnessed and can relate and sympathise with her.
The journey she makes is one that inspired me greatly.
Loved this book.
A fitting ending to a great series. This is my favorite of the books. A strong story line and excellent character study. The pace is excellently maintained with no confusion of story direction.
Well done …. Well Played
Read November 21, 2011
This was truly one of the best series that I have read in a REALLY long time. Yes, it was sad. And truly horrifying. But there were so many times while reading this that I wondered if this is how Nazi Germany was for a time and then I also had to wonder if this is what the end times are going to be like as well. People following a madman at any cost to live a lifestyle the rest see as silly and demeaning. It was very thought-provoking and interesting and even when I was horrified, I found I could NOT put the books down.
This one was the best of the series for me. And it ended the best way it could. Which I found was really ok with me.
I HIGHLY recommend this series!!!!
The Hunger Games
It is almost just about a game, a deadly competition. The game is played, and winners declared. You would assume that is it. They won. Game over, curtains closed what else is there?
Book 2 and Book 3 are very closely related. Book 2 ends with Katniss being shocked, her district being destroyed, her being reunited with Gale, her being separated from Peeta.
Now Book 3 takes an entirely different flow.
Here the victors are chosen to be symbols. A lot of it is about them giving motivational/situational sound bites.
What I liked here is that Katniss is not portrayed in the book as the leader of the revolution, a great soldier who can win wars. She is portrayed as what she is. Someone who through a series of unfortunate circumstances has managed to get very good PR ratings and the revolution wants to use her purely as a symbol.
Gale is portrayed as a soldier who has truly come to life. He is in his element. Fighting the oppressors, applying strategy.
Beete as a kind of a ‘Q’, a weapons designer extraordinaire.
The ‘victory’ when it finally happens is bitter and poignant. It pulls you in. I love how the ‘victory’ is not the end. How all the characters, their lives are so broken and it takes you into the future.
Whenever you have seen a great battle, don’t you always wonder what happens after?
So this book deserves all five stars. But I am going to start by saying this book doesn’t have the action the first two do. It couldn’t, there are no more Hunger Games. That will make it harder for some to enjoy. Another aspect that could make it hard for people to enjoy is that mentally a lot of the characters are messed up. They have been traumatized by all of the things in their lives. It’s not fun or pretty, but how could it be anything else and still be even remotely realistic.
If you have any doubts about reading this book don’t. It has a lot to say even if it isn’t your favorite style. I have reread it several times and I know I will reread it again.
Spoilers
Part of what makes this the perfect conclusion is that district 13 in no way solves all the problems of Panem. They have issues and are messed up in other ways, although they are not all their fault. President Coin is as power hungry as Snow, so it is a relief that she doesn’t make it to be president of the new Panem.
The fact that there is a debate about who Katniss should be with by the end of this book is absolutely absurd to me.
First of all Peeta has ALWAYS brought out the best in Katniss. He loved her first and wanted to protect her first, but during the Hunger Games she begins to want to protect him and then begins to love him. The whole hijacking things backtracks the relationship, but she becomes dependent on him. She thinks about Peeta when she wants comfort. She thinks about Peeta when she thinks about who she can trust. Peeta helps her hope and see the good in others. When she’s so mad at him for not being himself I think she’s missing him and the hope. Besides the hijacking his main concern has been protecting her, and he even does a pretty amazing job of that hijacked. I also don’t understand how people see him as weak. He gives Katniss bread, despite an abusive mother. He is physically strong, although not a hunter. And he protects Katniss over and over, even when she isn’t always very nice to him. He survives being hijacked! And still almost always tries to protect her despite that.
Gale has always been a friend, but I don’t see how he could have possibly been more after she had been to the Games. For one he never could have understood the trauma she went through because he never experienced it. Plus, he always could see the benefits of killing people if it killed less people in a way Katniss couldn’t, especially after the games. Gale didn’t just disagree with Katniss, he never saw things from her perspective. Gale just assumed he was always right out of conviction. Gale’s love of Katniss seemed one sided as far as romance is concerned, her side seemed more friend zonish to me. He also was a more negative person and Katniss was more than enough negative on her own. And then when it was his bomb design that killed Prim… Those would have kept them from really loving each other I think. Gale’s main thing was protecting her family and he epically failed at that to boot. Plus I’m sorry but the war always comes before Katniss.
Katniss has to become the face of the revolution – the Mockingjay – if they are to be successful in overthrowing the Capitol. So, despite her reservations and the personal cost, she takes up her role in yet another Game not of her choosing.
It is intense. It is action packed. It is full of blood and gore. The mutts are even more terrifying. Those hunting her are even more adept at killing. The twists and turns of her relationships – especially with Peeta and Gale – get so convoluted it’s exhausting. All the characters I like get killed, just like before. It’s memorable. It’s the stuff of nightmares. And the twist before the actual ending is where the book should’ve ended – it is great fun when something exciting and unexpected happens so close to the end of the story.
The actual ending left me a little cold. Though it might look great in a film sequence, it didn’t work as the end of a novel. If the point was to end it with hope, it fell flat. If the point was to end it with misery, it should’ve ended with the plot twist mentioned before. Her feelings for the guy she ends up marrying is very blah. Was that the point of the novel – that after so much excitement in such a short amount of time leaves the rest of life very monotonous and blah? I expected more from the girl on fire.
It’s well written and only the ending is a regrettable choice. A great end to the trilogy.
Wow what amazing ending I really enjoyed reading these books. I would give all the book 5.0 rating together. I have to say that that I miss reading about these characters. I will definitely be rereading these book in the future. I can’t believe that I waited so long to read these. I will say that Peeta is my favorite character. I highly recommend these books. If you haven’t read these you need to.
it was hard to get through but i made it through and i would definitely read again highly recommend
3.5
Gone is the tough Seam girl who fought her way out of TWO arenas. Gone is the compassionate girl who sang softly to a dying child. Gone is the fighter who wanted to see the senseless killing and the oppression of the Capitol end. What has taken her place is a broken, vacant shell of her former self. There was so little that was recognizable of the Katniss from the previous two novels, that I have to wonder why she was even there at all. If she wasn’t hallucinating or drugged up, she was hiding in some secret place where no one could find her. The littlest things would set her back for days, whereas in the arena, she was able to overcome obstacle after obstacle…each worse than the last.
I won’t be a jerk and fill this review with spoilers…there are plenty of other people here who have seen to that (nice how YOU got to read the book with fresh eyes, yet you saw fit to ruin it for everyone else…and putting SPOILER in big letters, DOESN’T make it okay), but I did feel the need to voice my extreme disappointment with the conclusion of this series. Katniss is built up so much on the first two novels, that I expected her to hit the ground running to exact immediate revenge for the destruction of District 12. I thought she’d be a huge player in the rebellion against the capitol, not the pawn she ended up being. She truly was the Mockingjay…she was fed all kinds of dribble and told what to say and how to act in front of the ever-present cameras, and she repeated it back to Panem like the good little Mockingjay that she was. There was no fire or fight left in her. We may have seen very rare glimpses of it, like when she was thrown into the hell that befell District 8, but more often than not, she was off somewhere whining and complaining. I mean, she wasn’t even there for the takeover of the Capitol! She was in a hospital somewhere all drugged up (surprise, surprise)! The conclusion of the take-over had to come to us second-hand…almost as an after-thought! To think, everything these books stand for, all the time invested, lives lost, and people pulling for Katniss, and she wasn’t even there. *Sigh* It was just wrong.
As for the whole Gale vs. Peeta love triangle…that was just another disappointment. There was never any real confrontation with Katniss and her own self. No sorting out in her mind to determine who she TRULY wanted to be with. The decision was just made for her, and as was par for the course with this book, she just accepted it with very little fight or emotion. I’m wondering why the Epilogue at the end was even included. It was so short and pointless that all it ended up doing was irritating me more. It was hardly a fitting end to the triumph and fire that was once Katniss Everdeen.
In the end, this was just another reminder to myself of why I stay away from series. While they may start strong and get you 100% invested in the characters, they usually always end up as a crushing disappointment. I’m sure each person had an ending to this series that he or she would have preferred most, but I feel the ending Ms. Collins chose to give all of us was the easy way out, and for that, I cannot forgive her for. Whatever she may write in the future, you can absolutely count me out.
This book was such an amazing end to the series, it has so many twists and turns. It introduces some amazing new characters and answers all the questions you had from the end of catching fire. It was emotional, action-packed and such a page-turner. Suzanne Collins certainly does not disappoint. Mockingjay is one of my favourite books and I cannot wait for more books by Suzanne Collins
I love it I have read and watched all of the books and movies for the amazing Hunger Games.
wow! this book in my opinion i the best book of this series Gregor the Overlander is just as good, suzzane is an amazing author
Make me want to see the movie, which I did.
Suzzanne Collins is phenomenal weaving a tragic political system into her dystopian world and through the eyes of many who are caught in the different levels of the system see how the majority fight to survive while those on top watch for entertainment. The characters are wonderfully built, each having a distinct purpose to go through the trails.
Awesome read!!
Have tissues ready…
A roller-coaster of emotions. Outrage being at the forefront. Snow has sunk to new lows in this third and final installment of the Hunger Games Trilogy.
We lose quite a lot of characters, some we barely get to know. There is much duplicity in both friend and foe.
It’s VERY entertaining
Least favorite of the series.