By: Suzanne Collins
Genre: Teen Fiction
Stars: 4 out of 5
With the final installment of the Hunger Games trilogy we find Katniss Everdeen in the midst of the war against the Capitol. Her home – District 12 – has been bombed and is completely in ashes, she has escaped the Quarter Quell and is now recovering in the fabled District 13, and Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. Now Katniss must become the face of the rebellion – the Mockingjay – to revitalize morality among the districts and defeat the Capitol. But with Peeta being gone, Cinna dead and complicated feelings with Gale, Katniss is not sure what she wants to do. Will Katniss Everdeen become the Mockingjay, defeat the Capitol and live in peace after the war is over?
Oh my goodness! Finally the third Hunger Games book has come out! And boy is it dark and twisted. It was honestly a little slow in the beginning but about 100 pages in the action starts happening. Katniss comes out of her “mentally disturbed” and starts to fight against the Capitol. Suzanne Collins certainly uses her masterful trick of really a cliffhanger at the end of chapters with the clever return of Haymitch, and the death of important characters. At the end, I totally called the assassination of the President that Katniss commits and my pick for which boy Katniss should be with wins. All in all, it was a good end to the trilogy. However, the first book is still my favorite. But Collins left no questions left unanswered and made me seriously want to cry at some parts and altogether left a satisfying end.
