Mockingjay: By Suzanne Collins -- Review

by Expert Book Reviews

In "Mockingjay," the final book in the "Hunger Games" trilogy, Katniss Everdeen agrees to become a unifying symbol for District 13. Hopeful to save one of her best friends, she joins the fight against the Capitol while finding solutions to her romantic dilemmas. Suzanne Collins implements elements of science fiction, romance, and action to craft a compelling conclusion to the highly rated trilogy. Read this all-encompassing review of "Mockingjay" first to get a complete overview of the book's style, plot, and characters. Explore the dark themes presented in "Mockingjay" while finding deeper meaning in Katniss' fight against a corrupted government. This expert review offers critical opinions and covers the book's positive and negative aspects. Despite the futuristic setting of "Mockingjay," Suzanne Collins employs deeper messages that are relevant to modern audiences. The good pacing and short yet poignant sentences make this novel accessible to teens as well as adults. Read how Katniss uses her survival instincts to fight for not only her own life but the lives of everyone in Panem. Sprinkled with hopeful moments, "Mockingjay" portrays a dark story that superbly wraps up the "Hunger Games" trilogy.

44 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 2014

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Reviews

[Bryant Smith]

This is a very good dystopia book and usually, I'm not a big fan of reading books but this book is an exception. I do like this book but the rating is a 3 out of 5. I give it this rating because I feel like there are a lot of missing and uncontinued plots points. also, I noticed that the book and the movie are two very different things. there are many places in the movie that isn't in the book and vice versa. my favorite part in this book is also really confusing but when the main character fire a bow and arrow in the middle of the hunger games somehow it explodes a whole city. so overall I think that this is a really good book and if you liked the movie or the other books there is a big chance you will like this book. in this book, the main character catness Everdeen has to go into the hunger games once again. the reason for this is because every couple of years the hunger games bring people who have recently won the hunger games to come and do it again. and as you can probably tell catness Everdeen was not very happy about this because she didn't want to do it again. this time in the hunger game because there is a lot of people that already are more skilled so there are more natural cause for death like more animals and moving vines for example.

[Kevin Davidson · Rating 4 out of 5]

MockingJay
By: Suzanne Collins
This book is part of a Dystopia genre. Also the MockingJay is a breathtaking story and is the last book in the series. This book is about Katniss Everdeen after her second year in the games due to the quarter quell. She later finds out that the place the capital said it was gone, well there might be a lie behind that little secret. After Haymitch and a group of other people came and rescued her from the games, she finds out that her and Finnick were the only ones rescued, and Peeta, Johanna and Enobaria are with the capital. So the main problem with Katniss as to face is to try to rescue the other victors from the capital and to take care of some other business as well.
I really like this book the MockingJay because there was always action in the book and you could never predict what was going to happen next. I believe that this book is similar to the book Divergent by Veronica Roth because you have the different factions in divergent and in Hunger Games Series is you have the different districts. If I had to rate this book I would rate it 4 stars because there was lots of action but, there was very sad parts in the book that I wish that the other did not include it in the story.

[Maree Larkin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't think this book was as good as the first two and was very disappointed at the ending. I do think the concept is very interesting and I can see our world in some ways is heading in the direction of these books with is frighting, our constant new reporting all day every day the great drama that is made of everything that happens, and the hunger that is suffered in many countries while there wealthy over indulge.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good book, although, it was a bit slow to get to the action. The ending was a bit weird because you can't really understand Katniss and Gale's relationship but i really like the epilogue.

[Jana Farrington · Rating 4 out of 5]

^ SPOILER^
this book was really good it had nice adventure and romance enough to satisfy the eye. It was slow at first but thing quickly progressed as the capital sent out videos o peeta. I was excited to see that Beetee and Finnick were still there and that Katniss was still trying to rescue the other victors from Snow. There as a good amount of action. Bt lots of good characters were lost. I really likes how Katniss stayed kind of mental through the beginning as she realised what happened. But I was really happy when she kilt Coin to be honest

[Kayla Spohr · Rating 5 out of 5]

The final book of the series, Katniss and Peeta find themselves in in the middle of a war. The districts are in uprising against the capitol and at war. Katniss is the inspirational figure for the uprising. I really liked this book and I was sad that the series ended. I would recommend it for 5th grade and up do to the violent storyline.

[Laura Puryear · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite of the series

[Janine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, that's over.