Mockingjay (Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (Epub)

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The third book in Suzanne Collins’s phenomenal and worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.The final book in Suzanne Collins’s worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy is now available in paperback.”My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.”Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Though she’s long been a part of the revolution, Katniss hasn’t known it. Now it seems that everyone has had a hand in the carefully laid plans but her.The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss’s willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels’ Mockingjay – no matter what the cost.

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Editorial Reviews: Review Praise for Mockingjay:#1 USA Today Bestseller #1 New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller #1 Publishers Weekly BestsellerA New York Times Notable Children’s Book of 2010A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA 2010 Booklist Editors’ ChoiceA 2010 Kirkus Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2010 “Fans will be happy to hear that Mockingjay is every bit as complex and imaginative as Hunger Games and Catching Fire.”-Entertainment Weekly”Suspenseful… Collins’ fans, grown-ups included, will race to the end.”-USA Today “At its best the trilogy channels the political passion of 1984, the memorable violence of A Clockwork Orange, the imaginative ambience of The Chronicles of Narnia and the detailed inventiveness of Harry Potter.”-New York Times Book Review “Unfolding in Collins’ engaging, intelligent prose and assembled into chapters that end with didn’t-see-that-coming cliffhangers, this finale is every bit the pressure cooker of its forebears. [Mockingjay] is nearly as shocking, and certainly every bit as original and thought provoking, as The Hunger Games. Wow.”-Los Angeles Times*”This concluding volume in Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy accomplishes a rare feat, the last installment being the best yet, a beautifully orchestrated and intelligent novel that succeeds on every level.”-Publishers Weekly, starred review About the Author Suzanne Collins is the author of the bestselling Underland Chronicles series, which started with Gregor the Overlander. Her groundbreaking young adult novels, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, were New York Times bestsellers, received wide praise, and were the basis for four popular films. She returned to the world of Panem with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Year of the Jungle, her picture book based on the year her father was deployed in Vietnam, was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim. To date, her books have been published in fifty-three languages around the world.

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⭐Before reading The Hunger Games trilogy, I had more than a few people tell me the first two books were good, but the last one was lacking. I couldn’t disagree more. The story is harsh, gruesome, and bleak. It had to be. It’s a first person account of an individual who has survived two Hunger Games and plays a major role in a revolution. Of course it’s going to be brutal. Had the story drawn to a close with Katniss standing majestically with trumpets blaring and flags waving, it would have been completely unrealistic.I also heard a few people express disappointment in the conclusion of the Katniss/Peeta storyline. I’ve read people’s reviews taking issue with how Katniss and Peeta are represented at the end of Mockingjay, asking “Where’s the passion?” Passion? Are they insane? First of all, the story is told in first person by a character who is admittedly not at all comfortable being demonstrative and doesn’t respond well to those who are. There was never going to be a hearts/candy/flowers declaration happening here. Peeta has a borderline obssessive love for Katniss throughout most of the trilogy. The way I read the story, by the end of the first Hunger Games, she returns the feeling. Though hesitant to think why she does the things she does, or to state it aloud, she expresses it in so many different ways throughout the remainder of the trilogy, there really is no doubt. Despite the fact that she is suffering major PTSD, she agrees to take on the stress of being the symbol of revolution and take a front line role to bring him back. Regardless of the amount of trauma they both endure, they still eventually turn back to each other. Gale was a strong character, but he had not gone through what Katniss did in the arena and would never have been able to understand that part of her. The time she spends clinging to him and avoiding Peeta is essentially an attempt to return to the person she was before the games (which was never going to happen). Peeta was the walking, living, breathing reminder of the trauma endured. I thought it telling that Peeta returned to Region 12. Like Gale, he could have gone anywhere when it was all over, yet he went where Katniss was. Really, Katniss, Peeta and Haymitch needed each other to become human again (or as human as they were ever going to be). Katniss reminded me of uncles I had who, when they returned from war, sat in a darkened room, staring at a wall day after day for over a year before they could handle being amongst the living again.I’ll admit part of me would have liked President Snow’s demise to be more than it was. Considering the amount of suffering he caused, part of me is bloodthirsty enough to have wanted him to suffer a great deal more. There are also characters I would have liked to survive (Finnick, Cinna, and Prim to name a few), but their deaths helped to illustrate the randomness and unfairness of death in wartime.There are parts of this story we’ll never get to see because it is told from Katniss’ point of view. We see only what she sees and know only what she thinks is going on. I, for one, would be interested in knowing more about events of the story from Peeta and/or Haymitch’s point of view. Peeta’s fight back from his memory hijacking would be an intriguing read.Ultimately, I found this book engaging, infuriating, exhausting, and funny all at the same time. To have had Katniss serene and sweetly declaring life to be sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows would have been absurd. She is with a husband (partner?) whom she loves and is utterly devoted to. She has two children she loves, but is worried what they will think when they know the role their parents played in the past. She and Peeta are happy, but remain somewhat haunted which is perfectly realistic for what the characters have gone through.

⭐I’ve read this series four times. It’s funny how you notice new things each time. The author has such a command of language. This level of excellence is unfortunately abandoned by the writers if “grown up” books. It is really possible to write a gripping, entertaining story without using terrible language and graphic sexual content. I would love for her to expand the series. Maybe back stories on Haymitch or even Cinna or Finnick. This is definitely a must read for anyone with consciousness.

⭐You know a book is good when it crawls inside your head and snuggles there. When you are thinking through it as you read it, and thinking about it long after you’ve read the last word on the last page.I had little to no expectations when I first started reading the Hunger Games Trilogy. If a book is trending and seems interesting, I will add it to my “to read” list. This is how I first started reading Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. After finishing Mockingjay, I was blown away. All I could think was, how many of the YA readers will understand the nuances of Collins’ message?She hooked you in with the “will she or won’t she” scenario. “Will she or won’t she” pick Peeta or Gale? “Will she or won’t she” survive a game that does not allow for love to shine through? Those questions get you through the first book, and possibly half way through the second book, but those same questions are a moot point with Mockingjay.Mockingjay stripped you of your hopeless romantic naiveté. There is no room for romance when the world is collapsing around you. There is barely room to breathe. There are no good guys or bad guys, only survivors. Mockingjay asks difficult moral questions: can man ever hold seats of power without corruption? Can war ever actually solve a dispute? At what price is man willing to pay for absolute power?I won’t even go into Collins’ varied symbolisms. Part of the pleasure of reading is finding them yourselves and asking yourself what the author is telling you, the reader. It becomes a communication between the author and the reader. It makes the novel Mockingjay even more important because it is written for younger readers, our future, those that will decide the world events of tomorrow. Collins does all this without a lecture, without loosing her characters or her plot, she has crafted an incredibly well written story that I would gladly recommend to anyone who asks.After I finished reading Mockingjay I had the same feeling as I had when I finished reading The Lord of the Flies so many years ago. Yes, I am comparing Mockingjay to a classic. There is no way around it. Mockingjay, like Lord of the Flies, asks you deep moralistic questions through the point of view of young characters. This is simply another great novel that makes you go hmmm.My favorite quotes from Mockingjay:“Frankly, our ancestors don’t seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn’t care about what would happen to the people who came after them.”“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. “Panem et Circuses translates into ‘Bread and Circuses’. The writer was saying in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”“Something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.”

⭐For those who might come to this series after having seen the movies, this book will be a bit of a surprise, as it presents a far more realistic depiction of events. As a psychologist who specializes in the treatment of trauma, I never expect a fiction piece to truly capture PTSD accurately. That is why we call it fiction. But the emotions Katniss experiences are real, raw, complicated,and expressed beautifully. Recovery from the horrors she saw, the physical traumas she experienced , and the childhood events she survived, take years, and are powerfully conveyed.

⭐Mockingjay for me was like reading something from another author. The first 2 were very clearly written for young adults and were very easy flowing whilst book 3 feels more serious and more detailed. Maybe this was intentional as Collins knew her initial fans were growing up. We are introduced to district 13 as the war on the capital kicks off. This one is slow to get in to and doesnt really pick up speed until part 3. I loved the whole Peeta story with his memories being tampered with and in all fairness, the story wraps up pretty well but book 3 is my least favourite. I would still recommend this trilogy.Lastly, I was team Gale all the way.

⭐I think that the hunger gamees were actually the best series that I have ever read in my whole life. It is actually better than the movie. *spoiler* My favourite part of this book was when Katniss leads her team/friends into the Capital to go and fight against the the people of the city.(Pls listen to this bit carefully…)I recommend this book for ages 10-12 so please do not read the books in this series if you are younger because it is extremely vilolent. Please do not even read the series if you are even 9 years old. I started reading this book when I was 10 years old so I wasn’t realy scared.Anyway, overall I love this book and pls buy this book (if you are the right age) because I think you would enjoy this book a lot.

⭐Suzanne Collins has written a very observant, shockingly familiar, social and political criticism as a sub-text to her ‘young adult’ series.Shaming as well as shameful: To date, I wonder how many children have been sacrificed in wars around our world? How many countless children suffer near starvation on this planet, when half the world throw tons upon tons of food into the garbage? How trivial is our obsession with appearance: plastic surgery, boob jobs; whilst thousands upon thousands of children don’t even have clean water to drink.If you think Ms. Collins has written a thrilling dystopian novel, you’re right, she has. Now read it again: the message is Loud and Clear:’Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.’ And she’s not talking about the Capitol.

⭐to be honest it was the darkest book of the hunger games trilogy but could possibly also be the best! i read the first one then watched the movie. i read the second one and watched the movie. i read the first half of this one and watched the movie. and finally i read the other half of this one and watched the last movie but i figured out that by reading and watching the books were DEFINITELY better than the movies (the movies were still really good tho) so reading the book is DEFINITELY DEFINITELY worth it. (i think reading first then watching is the best way to do it) :))

⭐Some minor spoilers within.I have read the hell out of these books in the past week – all three of them. It’s a tremendously satisfying series of books and every single one of them was hugely enjoyable. However, the last book suffers (a little) from several issues. The first is that it just doesn’t feel as coherent as the first two – without the driving force of the Games themselves, it has to be a very different book and the characters don’t feel quite so credible to me. The second is that the ending seems to undermine most of the central messages I took from the book. It just doesn’t gel – it’s a jarring misstep to my sensibilities. The third is that the horror of the central plot-line loses a lot of its impact with the half-hearted way in which events are described. Certain characters, I feel, deserved better in their final send-offs.Don’t get me wrong – it’s still an intensely good book, and a reasonably good cap-stone to a tremendous trilogy. It doesn’t take away from how good the first two books are, and it stands up well as a book in and of its own rights. It’s just I came away from it feeling a little colder than I think I would have if some other paths had been taken.

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