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!

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 .