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Loading... Mockingjay (the Final Book of the Hunger Games): 03 (edition 2010)by Suzanne Collins (Author)
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  ) pinkbookscoffee | Jan 3, 2025 |  I don't get the hype, in this book Katniss spends most of the time in comas or recovering from wounds, every time she get's out to "be a leader" she gets wounded, or she gets lucky her team dies. Then there's the tearjerker moment that I call the ending (followed by a coma) and the epilogue that lasts a couple of chapters, followed by an actual 15 years later epilogue. (  ) Artemisa | Dec 30, 2024 | I was afraid Mockingjay would be disappointing, but it is the perfect finish to the Hunger Games. Edge of my seat anticipation altered with serious realizations of the consequences of war. ( ) elorin | Dec 28, 2024 | ) lou_intheberkshires | Dec 26, 2024 | If I could rate this any higher, I would. When I finished the book, I remembered the reason why I couldn't bring myself to read it in the first place. I knew that it was going to be hard. Not just because of a character dying, but because they all felt like friends. Friends whom I had come to know and love, and then, in the blink of an eye, I felt like I had lost them, even though I know that they will be there the second I pick the books up again. It also felt as if the world stopped. The End. For a second, I just couldn't believe it was over. This was just one of those books that I was so involved in, that it hurt all the same, even though I knew that it probably would in the first place. I haven't read a book in a while where I actually felt as if I was there. To be so involved, that I felt as if I was there, fighting with Katniss and Thirteen. There when Prim died. There when Buttercup appeared, and Buttercup and Katniss consoled one another after Prim's death. Where Peeta and Katniss's children are playing on the graveyard of those who didn't survive the bombing. Even though knowing that I would get my heart broken again in an instant, I would read the book series again. (  ) taliainthetardis | Dec 20, 2024 |
 Collins is absolutely ruthless in her depictions of war in all its cruelty, violence, and loss, leaving readers, in turn, repulsed, shocked, grieving and, finally, hopeful for the characters they've grown to empathize with and love. Mockingjay is a fitting end to the series that began with The Hunger Games (2008) and Catching Fire (2009) and will have the same lasting resonance as William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Stephen King's The Stand. However, the book is not a stand-alone; readers do need to be familiar with the first two titles in order to appreciate the events and characters in this one. All in all, Mockingjay confirms what we've suspected already — The Hunger Games isn't just a powerful saga about a unique, memorable hero struggling to do the right thing in the public gaze. It's also an important work of science fiction that everyone should read, because if you don't, you'll be left out of all the best conversations. The novel's biggest surprises are found elsewhere. Hope emerges from despair. Even in a dystopian future, there's a better future. More maudlin than the first two books in the series, "Mockingjay" is also the most violent and bloody and, based on the actions and statements of its characters, its most overtly antiwar — though not so much that it distracts from a series conclusion that is nearly as shocking, and certainly every bit as original and thought provoking, as "The Hunger Games." Belongs to SeriesThe Hunger Games (3) Is contained inHas the adaptationHas as a studyAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a _target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn. No library descriptions found. 
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