Title: Mockingjay
Author: Suzanne Collins
Series: The Hunger Games (Book 3)
Genre: Young Adult
After Katniss shoots the arrow into the force field in Catching Fire, she is airlifted out to District 13. That's right, District 13 does exist and it's been built entirely underground. It is the home of the rebellion against the Capitol and Katniss is going to become the Mockingjay - and figurehead to the rebellion.
This book started out simply lukewarm for me. I didn't like that Peeta was missing (I mean nonexistent in the book - we know he's at the Capitol) and that Katniss had all this time with Gale that was missing all of the warmth and humor that she has with Peeta. Learning about District 13 was interesting enough, but when the battle started it went downhill from there.
When Katniss is actually placed in battle near the Capitol, it was the beginning of the end for me. I didn't like all the nasty things that happened during the battle. I understand that it was war, but it wasn't simply killing but the way people were killed and tortured. It was disturbing. When the end of the book came, I set it down and didn't want to go to sleep because I felt so disturbed.
I felt as if the trilogy was amazing - but that it started on a high point and went down from there. Mockingjay was definitely my least favorite book of the three.
1 comment:
Hi, Jen! I wish I could comment on The Hunger Games...they are on my list of "must read soon" right behind me finishing Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and the second of the "dragon tatoo" books! If only I had more time...silly work and blogging! :)
Anyways, I wanted to get back to you regarding the comment on my blog and couldn't find an e-mail address for you. As you probably know, blogger makes it VERY difficult to comment on others' comments, which is frustrating for me!
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Hope that helps...
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