Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three)

· The Hunger Games Book 3 · Sold by Scholastic Inc.
4.3
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The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and authors in recent publishing history!

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4.3
19.5K reviews
Isabelle Gill
August 3, 2023
it was an amazing book. A lot of readers said it was alright but every twist literally brought me to tears. Thinking about what it would be like to lose people that are so close to me and that I love so much. I enjoyed the series so much and wish that it wasn't the end. Definitely one of my favorite series ever. The characters are so well put together that when Katniss loses them you actually feel your heart sink. Something about Suzanne's writing just brings me to earth and makes me appreciate what I have and helps me to stay close to those who matter and protect them no matter what. In the end this is one of the best books I've ever read.
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A Google user
October 8, 2011
I bought this book fully expecting it to live up to the the level I thought the first two books had. I was wrong. The book started off like it was going to complete the series in a fulfilling way. I soon noticed how slow the beginning of the book was, how the plot was lacking in many aspects, how unemotional the entire story was, and how Suzanne Collins began killing off characters whose names I barely knew. When the parachutes come down on the kids, I didn't care. Suzanne Collins can write good cliff hangers, I'll give her that. But she has never proved to me she has the ability to conclude a series or even a book in a way that is complete and ties up all of the loose ends. Oftentimes its not clear what Collins is trying to convey, her writing style is so vague and ambiguous that a passage reread a dozen times will still make no sense. The last few chapters of the books seem hastily thrown together like the author wants to shock us. In addition, the book doesn't seem to really have a climax. It starts slow, picks up, then drops off. After reading this book, I looked back on the rest of the series and noticed how shallow and plotless they were. Suzanne Collins has the potential to write very good books, but this is not that book. The Hunger Games is not that series.
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A Google user
April 3, 2012
If you have not read the first two books in the series recently, you should go back and review them or you might find yourself adrift for awhile. I read both in 2009, which put me at a disadvantage. The author does not do a good job of orienting the reader with subtle hints or memories of the first two books, so often, the reader will be confused about what is being discussed, or what is happening, or about some of the characters and the parts they played. They are only reviewed in the most superficial of ways. Like the other two books in the series, violence is no stranger. The characters do not seem to have matured from their experiences and although this is an excellent endeavor in science fiction, this book is the weakest link in the group. Katniss seems to have an unrealistic nine lives, surviving and escaping, again and again, when everyone else succumbs. She fights to kill her peers but then balks at killing her enemies with righteous indignation. After a failed people’s revolution, the dystopian society of Panem, formerly North America, is ruled by the powerful residents living in the community called The Capitol where the power resides. Using the 12 slave communities to provide their needs, all things of value are at their disposal. The 12 communities, however, live in poverty, hand to mouth, without either many creature comforts, proper shelter or enough food to sustain them, except minimally. Each year, The Hunger Games are staged by The Capitol, as a reminder to them never to revolt against the authorities again. In the Hunger Games, two children from each community are pitted against each other in an arena in which they must all fight to the death, until there is only one survivor, in staged settings of horror and death. This is a violent and bloody novel, horrific in the nature of the destruction, injuries and cruelty toward others, that it describes. Reading this final book, made me wonder why parents would allow young children to even read it. The concepts are too far above the emotional and mental maturity of a 10 year old, and yet many have been allowed to read it in order to feel cool, “in”, and to make themselves and their parents pseudo-sophisticates, after all, they are all bright enough to read this book, originally designed for young adults, defined variously as 10-20 and 12-17. One surely has to realize that the age range is too broad and parental guidance should play a major role before such a book is placed in the hands of a 10 year old, and yet they are even reading it with their parents’ blessings. How can the same concepts be appropriate for a ten year old and a twenty year old? It defies common sense. This book gave me pause as I realized that we “hunger”, to use the author’s phrase, for such tragic and monstrous plots and then expose them, perhaps irresponsibly, to our young. What are we teaching them? Why do we want to them read this, creative and well written, as well it might be? What do we all hunger for? Do we want a form of escape or is it a form of wishful thinking? Do we want revenge; is it about class warfare; is it about fairness; is it about power? Whoever possesses it, is the winner, so perhaps, it is not really about righteousness and survival and a restructuring of David and Goliath, at all? Perhaps as Lord Acton (1834-1902), British historian, originally wrote: it is about the fact that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man." I thought that both adults and youths set a terrible example in this book. They all seemed self-serving and headstrong, thinking of nothing but their own needs, ultimately. That is a terrible lesson to teach the future of America. I realize that this review may make me sound a bit condescending, but I don’t feel that way. I feel genuinely sad that our children are being forced to grow up before their time, to read books inappropriate for them when there are so many wonderful stories out there without blood and gore that have just as much adventure and
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About the author

Suzanne Collins is the author of the bestselling Underland Chronicles series, which started with Gregor the Overlander. Her groundbreaking young adult novels, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, were New York Times bestsellers, received wide praise, and were the basis for four popular films. She returned to the world of Panem with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Year of the Jungle, her picture book based on the year her father was deployed in Vietnam, was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim. To date, her books have been published in fifty-three languages around the world.

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