Mockingjay (The Hunger Games)

Not nearly as good as the first two. Strange ending if you ask me.

Kind of disappointing after the other two. Seemed like she didn't really know what to do with Katniss in the end, just like nobody else knew what to do with her.

Oh my heart after finishing this series! This is the book of the series that breaks you and puts you back together. So many horrible deaths happened in this one and the torture of poor sweet Peeta. Reading about him trying to find himself again is a hard one because he never wanted to be a pawn in the game. Seeing Katniss and Haymitchs relationship grow and his side with Peeta is such a nice touch. The ending of this series makes my heart feel a little healed.

SPOILERS BELOW

I was always interested in Tigress and seeing her and learning who she was on The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes made me even more curious.

I would kill for a story about her and what happened between her and Snow and her backstory. She seemed to love him and was such a a support for him. She seemed like the only person he actually loved and didn't treat badly so what happened between all the time in-between the books.

Ok we are gonna talk about Finnick. I couldn't stand him at first but over time I loved him. His death is one of the first deaths in any book I truly didn't understand and was so pissed about. He was such a big character and had so much to live for and he literally got a sentence for his death and nothing more. ONE FREAKING SENTENCE! His death has sat with me for over 13 years and re-reading it I'm still just as angry.

Having Cinnas death confirmed made me tear up so bad. Katniss thinks she watched his death before going into the game in CF had to have been hard. I'm glad she had the moment with him right before and seeing all the things he made her knowing she was his mockingjay is strangely comforting.

Bogg's characters grew on me in such a short time as well and I was haunted by his death.

Prims death wrecked me. Katniss never was close to her mother but Prim was all she had left of her blood family. She helped raise her and she meant the world to her. Seeing her death uggggh it just killed me.

What made it worse was when Katniss finds Buttercup and just breaks. That whole scene in the book, I'm glad the movie got that right.

When I was younger my hate for Gale wasn't as strong as it is as an adult. I think a part of me didn't fully understand his part in Prims death. Gale could have been a good character and a great friend but he spent so much time trying to push Katniss out of jealousy and almost in a Snow way that she was owed to him. He made bad decisions and I don't fully fault him for that because he knew people were going to die and he took that risk.

Even though I watched the movies first I was still able to really enjoyed this story.

**spoiler alert** I loved hunger games, i really did. Then Catching fire came and miss collins went in a direction i NEVER would have expected....backwards. She sent them BACK into the hunger games, which took me so off guard i actually liked this better even than the first. Mockingjay was a totally different story. I NEED a happy ending to like a series, and i'm sorry but "as happy as humanly possible" is not good enough for me. If she wouldn't have killed off the little sister everything would have been fine, she killed off enough of the characters to illustrate that this was a story about overcoming odds and making sacrifices to achieve the greater good ect. that prim didn't need to die. In fact when she did die I suddenly felt like the whole series was a waste of time. The WHOLE reason any of this happened was because Katniss couldn't bare her little sister going to certain death. And how she wrote Gale out as if he was just an issue that needed to be taken care of annoyed me as well. I give this book a D because at least she ended with Peeta, quite possibly the only thing i liked about this book even if she was a miserable waste of existance after all was said and done. :p