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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:  506 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
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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 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.
 Not as good as the first two. September 10, 2010
Jeffrey A. Williams (New York)
Even if the final chapter was not what I expected. I would definitely read more books from Mrs. Collins.
 Please! Why?!? September 10, 2010
B. Reed (Charlotte, North Carolina)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First off, let me say, I LOVED the first two books of this amazing series. I felt it wasn't afraid to give the mature violence and emotions needed that some yound adults shy away from. Well this book sure had the violence but I was left just skimping the last half of the book because every chapter became more and more of a let down! I had been waiting so long for this amazing end to a trilogy, only to feel, well, cheated. I understand the emotional toll and stress, and devestation war can bring. However the character Katniss, who I had no greatly come to admire for her strength and "guts" as a female main character, ended up running around the entire book lost and confused. She rarley if ever stood up and made definitive decisions.And as a female I was excited to see she picked peeta at the end , but "oh wait!" lets just snub him the whole book and not try to get close to hime at all and then at the end basically say, "This is best I could hope for." Geez. I'm not into the gushy,mushy romance but she could have at least acted like it she truley loved him instead of it was her only option! I am beyond frustrated and I serioulsy feel cheated as a loyal fan. I will contiue to re-read the first two book and disreguard this last one. Little emotion, little explanation to major plot changes, and too little of our old beloved Katniss.
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