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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

128 reviews

colorful_lulu's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Child death, Suicide attempt, Genocide, Drug use, Murder, Mental illness, Blood, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, War, Child abuse, Violence, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Sexual violence, Death of parent, Vomit, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Miscarriage

jaythenerdbird's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

How is this series considered Young Adult? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, War, Vomit, Murder, Gore, Genocide, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

isabelle_mary's review

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I have never read a book series where I have given each book five stars and today is the day that has changed. While I love many book series, I am also the first to admit when that book series slacks in one book or doesn’t, but when looking back at this book series I cannot find one moment where it is lacking something. Suzanne Collins perfectly has written a series that does not disappoint, leave you wondering, have slow moments (and vice versa, too fast moments), etc. She provides hope and pain perfectly and gives a realistic example of how war is. Katniss and Peeta’s story had always been one of my favorites on the screen but now reading it and getting more of it, makes me love them even more. Each character in this series was written with so much in mind and it makes me feel as if I knew them personally (and I love when a book does that). Joanna and Finnick I love you both!! This will definitely be a series to me that I reread over and over again and share with others. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Grief, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Mass/school shootings, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Hate crime, Alcohol, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Medical content

leeyongjin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Slavery

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, Death of parent, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Confinement, Genocide, War, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

Minor: Gaslighting, Gore, Vomit, and Death

loveisabird's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

i’m old enough to have been in the target audience when mockingjay was released, and my main memories of the book are everyone seeming disappointed in the conclusion and after finally getting handed off a copy of the book from a friend feeling maybe not that negatively but at best neutral about it.

now to be fair, while 14-year-olds were ostensibly the target audience, how many 14-year-olds were really equipped to deal with the themes and questions put forward by mockingjay? how were 14-year-olds supposed to understand what was going on with president coin, or why katniss didn’t make her romantic choice until the last paragraph in the most undramatic manner?

so i stand by my belief that the hunger games should not have been YA books. mockingjay does tell a good story, even with all its tragedies, which is evident when you’re 27. but that good story is ridiculously rushed. so my new the hot take is that mockingjay should have been two books. i think both more things needed to happen plot-wise in the revolution, and we needed more time spent on some of the things that did happen. (admittedly an argument that could be made for any of these books).

conveniently taking this stance means the controversial stance that it was correct to have two mockingjay movies is further validated. it SHOULD have been two movies because it should have been two BOOKS!!!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, War, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Torture, Xenophobia, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Police brutality

Moderate: Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Confinement, Blood, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Animal death, Death of parent, and Self harm

judeb0x's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Violence, Torture, Gore, War, Blood, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Death, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Genocide, Drug abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Vomit, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

paloverdepages's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This time around, I finished the book in a matter of hours. I can appreciate the story so much more now.

Prim's death

was the first time a book made me cry. That memory is so strong in my head that I had forgotten how horrific some other parts are. 10/10 for catharsis, exactly what I needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Mental illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Vomit, and Drug use

divinehealer14's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

3.0

This is one of the hardest, most depressing books I have ever read in my whole life. 
I literally had to take breaks from reading because it was too dark, too violent, too heartbreaking for me. 
Apart from that, I must say it was my least favourite in the trilogy; there are really a few redeeming moments that provide hope, the pacing is off, the ending I found to be extremely rushed, considering the emotional, physical and psychological damage that survivors will carry forever, and I had a few issues with how the characters were handled. 
Firstly,

Finnick and Prim’s deaths

How is it possible that literally nothing is even said about that??? 
Secondly, I think that it makes a lot of sense to have made Katniss so unbearable in this book, given everything she has been through, and I wouldn’t change that. It makes her imperfect, and realistic. But some of her choices and actions just didn’t feel like her. I was really disappointed when at the end she voted yes to having new Hunger Games with Capitol kids (which are never mentioned again). Katniss wouldn’t have done that, after all her pain. And I get that she has been hurt so badly she basically lost her humanity, but that made her seem so heartless to me. 

In conclusion, I thought this book was extremely hard to finish and had some flaws that I found distracting in the story 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Gore, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, War, and Violence

samanthaeumir's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Miscarriage, War, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, and Torture

lazmataz's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, War, Violence, Genocide, Classism, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Slavery, Vomit, Pregnancy, Incest, Trafficking, Miscarriage, and Adult/minor relationship