I feel that for an extradinary series this book's ending leaves you depressed and unsatisfied. Our strong beloved katniss turns out to be a crazed broken figure. The complicated love triangle that is going on between gale peeta and katniss ends totally confusingly. Gale does a very un-Gale like thing and deserts Katniss. which is very WTF

I do not recommend this book for anyone who has experienced mental trauma or suffers from depression. There is too many triggers to send you back to a dark place. I really hated the ending. It's a sign of a poor author when so many beloved characters are killed off for no or little reason. Does the author hate Katniss? I don't think I've ever felt so bad for a main character in any book ever. After reading Catching Fire I had to be coaxed into reading Mocking Jay and I now regret reading it. It left a bad taste in my mouth.

I bought only because the first two 'books had no real ending so you had to keep going. The first was okay but the second was terrible as well from a writing quality standpoint. It was not just rudimentary or young. It was awful. The end was a lame attempt at trying not to sell out but selling out in the epilogue. Just terrible!

I bought only because the first two 'books had no real ending so you had to keep going. The first was okay but the second was terrible as well from a writing quality standpoint. It was not just rudimentary or young. It was awful. The end was a lame attempt at trying not to sell out but selling out in the epilogue. Just terrible!

I bought only because the first two 'books had no real ending so you had to keep going. The first was okay but the second was terrible as well from a writing quality standpoint. It was not just rudimentary or young. It was awful. The end was a lame attempt at trying not to sell out but selling out in the epilogue. Just terrible!

I bought only because the first two 'books had no real ending so you had to keep going. The first was okay but the second was terrible as well from a writing quality standpoint. It was not just rudimentary or young. It was awful. The end was a lame attempt at trying not to sell out but selling out in the epilogue. Just terrible!

If you haven't read this series, READ THEM.

I'm going explaining how I got into the books, because I feel it can related to others. I had heard of them being popular, but I thought they were just some teen grabbing story, similar to Twilight(which I read and was enjoyable in its own way). What I didn't expect was how obsessed I would become from reading these books. I was given the first book as a Christmas present and decided, to finally pick it up 4 months later, and I must say, I was a complete idiot for waiting as long as I did. I literally could not put the books down, and finished in 4 hours. I was in such a craze about it. I woke up the next day and bought the next two books (which I preceded to finish both in 4 hours each). Now I'm taking the time to explain all this because I want readers to realize how much I loved these books. They were well written, they captured my interest like you wouldn't believe, and they kept me wanting more to the point where I would be dreaming up what could happen next(mostly Peeta filled dreams).

** SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT **

That being said, when I got to the end of MockingJay, to say that I was disappointed would be an understatement. I was completely baffled that Collins went from explaining everything meticulously, to just, ending the book, without really explaining anything. How did Prim get to where she did, and what exactly happened to Gale ? But what really disappointed me, and shocked me, was that she didn't explain Katniss and Peeta's relationship in the end. All we got was ' They ended up with kids and trying everyday to rebuild their lives '. Seriously ? What happened to Peeta and how did he get better ? And how did Katniss have a child when she was so strongly against it? I wanted to see how they're relationship grew and how they got to where they were. Obviously, I wanted the end result of them together, but this isn't a child's fairytale. You can't just say " and they lived happily ever after " and expect people to be alright with no explanation as to why or how. I'm completely disheartened that I forced to think of what happened between them, on my own or through fanfiction. I'm just left unfulfilled .

Unsatisfied because I wanted more....
This trilogy is amazing and well written....I read all three books in three days because I could not put them down. With that being said, I wasn't happy with the final chapters in Mockingjay. I assumed that the plot would present sad and frustruating moments considering a war is not joyful or fun. However, I believe that in the midst of all the chaos and death, certain characters should have been kept alive if their death did not achieve a particular goal. For example, I understand that Rue had to die in book 1 becasue it was her death the in a way sparked something inside Katniss and the rebels. But killing off Finnick, for example, after all they had been through just to add to the casualites and death numbers was just depressing.

Also, I was very unsatisfied with the result of the love triangle. I understand (didn't enjoy) why Gale leaves Katniss and with the one quote from the book you know that he is right and will never be forgiven for the event that he may or may not have played a role in....but I wasn't happy the the narrator, Katniss, was never completely honest about her feelings towards Peeta or Gale. No we as readers can only imagine how Gale and Peeta feel for her, but since we are suppose to have the luxury of being in Katniss's mind while reading the book, I was suprised that I found myself thinking....doesn't she know who she is truly in love with? if not in the beginning, by the end she should know her own heart....and it shouldn't be the "one she could not survive without" as Gale puts it....It should have been because she realized how deep down she has always loved the boy with the bread!

Unfortunately, I believe Collins wrote a very "realistic" ending to a science fiction novel....no happy ending, no warm fuzzy feelings in the end, no resolve....instead she depicted a world where war is harsh, ends lives for the dead and the living and casues only pain even after it's all over....

so that's it??..not much is described in prim's death?? not even a full paragraph of hatred and grief towards her sister's death? common..the third book sucks in my opinion...and gale just leaves her like that? no last goodbyes or kisses? ..and peeta just flips out and comes back to her again....and finnick just dies like that?? not comments from Annie?...seriously Collins..this could have been better..

Honestly, that would be the the one word I would use to describe this book, depressing. At the end, I'm not sure, I just felt really depressed because it barely felt like a happily ever after.

The beginning, it's really boring. It only starts to get kind of exciting when the first chunk of the book is over and we come to the parts with Peeta.

Which brings us to Peeta, Katniss, and Gale. The obvious love triangle that has been present since the beginning of this wonderful series! Well, I could give you all the details but it just wouldn't be the same as reading about it and feeling like you're in the middle of it all. There was this one part where I they're all in that cellar of Tigris' but that's all the clues I'll give.

Anyways, overall it was a good book. Depressing, yes but I really did like it. It was like it was so depressing it was comforting which is very selfish to think since many won't have to go through all the things that Kat did but still. Taking comfort in her situations, it's a pretty low thing to stoop to and yet I am one of those people who did.

Well, I can't really say much more besides a lot of people die which isn't surprising since it's a war and that's what happens in wars. But I will say I was happy with Kat's desicion at the end in regards to Snow and Coin. Hmmm.... I guess when you think about it, taking comfort with all the depression is nothing compared to the lows that were achieved by those two.

You must definitely read this book. Sure it's depressing and boring at first but it's still really awesome. And just the heads up, if you're someone who cries when reading, well then I'll tell you now, you'll probably cry at least once in the book. Sorry, but true, what can I say? People must die... ? So yeah, read this book and try to rush through the first part to get to the good parts, kay? Have fun reading and don't get yourself too down. It's really something.

SPOILER ALERT
So, all my Hunger Games loving friends tried to persuede me to not read the book and just gave me fake plots that , were easily better than the existing one.
1. So, Prim dies ( ok, what was the point of even writing the entire series if you were gonna kill of the one thing that started it in the first place. There wasn't even a reason for her death and it was stupid. Like , she could have gone off onto some plot on why Prim was killed and it could have increased the hatres for the capitol.)

2. The hero turns into a depressed druggie. I noticed a huge difference after seeing the movie and then reading the second half of mockingjay. Katniss losses herself , shes not even katniss anymore and its really hard to root for her, or by that fact anyone cause there all so depressed and suicidal.

3. Finniks Death gets 1 sentance. - see what i mean

4. Peeta never returns to himself and Gale just shuts katniss out, there was absoloutly no romance in the book, and who she ends up with is summarized by one sentance.

Bottom line : i began to hate the charecters i began to love from the first two books, by the end of it i honesly was rooting for president snow because the mains, were just suicidal loosers that .....ughhhghghgh cant even talk anymore



I HATE MOCKINGJAY. DONT READ IT AND MAKE UP YOUR OWN ENDING.

''I have had thousands upon thousands of people from districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role''
~Quoted from Mockingjay

Mockingjay has shocked me, plain and simple. There are no words to truely describe this book. I loved The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, but the final installment in the series was the one that touched me the most.

We have seen Katniss go through so much in the two first books, she is such an amazing character and it's impossible not to love her. She really grew on me. In Mockingjay I felt more connected to her than ever, so much that at times I felt like I was right there, standing next to Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire. Collins descriptions are incredible.

I also enjoyed learning more about the Capitol, how they operate and how it is from the inside, it really helped understand certain aspects of the story and it also answered some questions I had while reading the two previous books.

The ending is shocking and nothing like I had expected, but then again, the entire series was full of surprises and nothing like I imagined it to be.

Katniss will be hard to replace as my new best YA character. Collins, you set the bar pretty high with this series!

The book was rolling along and then just as we were getting to the climax, it was over. A huge opportunity missed with the way the book ended a couple of chapters earlier than the last words were printed. Everything after the war was more or less epilogue as this book for the most part was concentrated on the war with the Districts and Capitol. The ending seemed more of a tie-up of loose ends so that this series could be over and the next project started than how things could have been pulled togeather in an expanded version of the story. That being said, I did still enjoy the book, just not the ending.

While I'm pretty impressed with myself for hunkering down for three straight days reading the entire Hunger Games trilogy, I have to say that this wasn't the most impressive instalment of the trilogy. That being said, I'm so happy that I've finally finished reading the trilogy!

If you're reading this review, I'm assuming that you've read the previous two books in the series. If not, please stop reading! I'm not going to include spoilers, but even referencing certain things that happen in the book will be a spoiler if you haven't read the previous two.

Mockingjay is about Katniss and her friends rebelling on the Capital. They've taken hiding in District 13, underground, and seem to be unsure which is worse - living under the Capital and President Snow's Hunger Games and strict rules, or living in District 13 where the people still aren't totally free.

While the entire book is moving along and I was intrigued the whole way through, I also felt that it was moving at a slower pace than the previous two books. Katniss and her team put together a lot of propaganda TV shorts and there was a lot of recap about what was going on in them. And really, maybe it's just me, but who was watching these shorts? If the entire country of Panem is in rebellion, who's sitting down watching their TVs every night?

The cliffhanger at the end of Catching Fire made me pick up Mockingjay immediately, but I felt that without the Games happening, there was a lot of sitting around, waiting for the action to start. That's not to say that there wasn't any action, because once it came up, it was hard to put the book down!

The romance was tepid in this book, and I have to admit that I was very disappointed with the outcome. I felt that "certain characters" were not given the screen-time (page-time?) they deserved, while I was rooting for them the whole way through.

Collins's writing maintained the same caliber it had in the first two books, which was nice. There was still the odd sentence I found myself rereading to understand what exactly was being said, but I got it in the end.

Of course, that being said, the entire series was amazing and I'm happy to have finally read it. I'm interested to see if the entire series will turn into a movie franchise and that hopefully the movies will do the books justice.

the entire series is a winner. i milked this entire book, bc i did not want it to end.
i am madly in love with the series and katniss. it will be extremely difficult to read anything after this series. i feel complete but lost at the same time.

great ending to an amazing trilogy. everything you want in the last book. love, loss, courage, fight and hope. all hail collins and the world of the hunger games/ mockingjay

nothing compares! grabs you and won't let go

I thoroughly enjoyed the Hungary Game and Catching Fires and was excited to read the Mockingjay. I thought it was a huge let down. I get the plot but I felt the book was too dark and the characters got lost in the story. Although the written was great but I felt it lacking and I still cannot not quite put my finger on what it is that I wanted out of the third book that I didn’t get. The three main characters Katniss, Peeta, and Gale felt lost and their character didn’t develop. In fact they all felt angry and depressed. spoilers At the end of the story Peeta had to ask Katniss if she loved him for real or fake and she does say Real but I was like why couldn’t the author actually have Katniss come out and say that she loved him. My other problem with the book was way did so many great have to die and it was such a letdown especially Primrose when the entire reason Katniss joined the Hunger Game was to save her. In my opinion the third book could have been so much better. It was too rushed. In that said the series was fun to read and I’m glad but the third one could have been so much more inspiring that made the reader walk away feeling happy for the characters. Again this is just my opinion and I understand that many people would disagree with me. I just hope if they make this book into a movie that it will be so much better.

I read the first book a few months ago, and was completely blown away by it. I wanted to read Catching Fire and Mockingjay but because of the reviews on here I was a little scared to so I put it off until a couple of weeks ago, and I'm glad I didn't listen to those reviews! Catching Fire was brilliant and I could barely put Mockingjay down. I think that Suzanne Collins really captured the way your relationships suffer when you have gone through such an emotional rollercoaster as Katniss had. The whole book was extremely sad but the ending was perfect. I definitely shed a lot of tears over this trilogy, and I know I will never forget it. Best series I've read in a long time!

I honestly don't know what to say about this book without giving anything away...I think my mind is still trying to wrap itself around the series being complete.

I thought the story was going to go a different way. Characters that I thought were going to die didn't and characters that I thought were going to be safe weren't. I did cry over that but I didn't cry nearly as much as I thought I was going to. I was kinda let down by that fact.

Certain characters pissed me off with their actions - like really pissed me off. I almost jumped off the Team Peeta train and wasn't going to hop on any other train! I really liked the last chapter of the book - it gave me an overall closure to the series.

I did find some parts of the novel I had to re-read because I was like what? What just happened? It was like something was missing and I was a bit confused until I re-read.

I thought Mockingjay could have been better. It doesn't live up to Catching Fire or The Hunger Games in my opinion but it was still pretty good.

The minute I finished the second book I had to start this book and finished it in a couple of hours. The book really had me hooked. I found myself totally pulled into Katniss' world and my emotions were on a roller coaster ride as I turned each page. As the conclusion of the trilogy, Collins did a great job for the most part. The very ending was disappointing for me. I felt like it went against everything the trilogy was about. Without giving away too much, I wasn't happy with how Katniss ended things with one of the main characters and this character was never brought up again - I didn't agree with the author's decision and more importantly I didn't feel that it offered any resolution to the reader. I also felt that the ending sort of went against who Katniss was and what she wanted throughout the entire story. Despite these things, the book offered a pretty thorough conclusion to the story.

WOW. This series was so emotional, and touching, and...devastating. I will always have a spot in my heart for these books that I don't think I will ever have with another book series.

Now getting on with the actual review:
I think this book personally could have been a bit better. I found it really difficult to get into. This book was definitely good but no near as amazing as the first two. I think the Epilogue was actually the best part of this book (XD) but I guess that's just the way it goes.
Overall, amazing series.

Applaude to Suzanne Collins.