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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

119 reviews

hjb_128's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: War, Torture, Police brutality, Mental illness, Genocide, Blood, Drug use, Death, Medical content, Grief, Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Slavery, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Alcoholism

r1vana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

In this book, I saw a more flawed Katniss. She is a strong character who was/is burdened by the power hungry old people; and their audacity. 
She is a total mess and psychologically not treatable. 
Reading her being filmed and act with cameras around her was hard to read. It’s like she was back in the capitol but more traumatized then ever.

On the other hand, I hate love triangles. And this book did not help either. There were times I hated Katniss for actually playing both of them. The plot was already stressful enough. I just didn’t care about Katniss’s love story. Honestly I preferred the films interpretation. 

Hunger Games is an anthem. Will always cherish it.

PSA: I wanted to read this series because I still haven’t watching the ballad of songbirds and snares. But I also wanted to read Crimson Rivers (an ff).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Death, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Blood, Torture, Medical content, Mental illness, and Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child death

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Grief, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, War, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Torture, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual assault

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Really solid ending to a series that changed the face of dystopian fiction. There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said!! Sad that my time in this universe is almost to an end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Death, Medical content, War, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

ag_berry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Murder, Genocide, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Torture, Mass/school shootings, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Death, Police brutality, Addiction, War, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Violence, Blood, Child death, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Gore, and Classism

auds_wright's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, War, Violence, Child death, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy and Miscarriage

snowiceblackfruit77's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Alcoholism, Murder, Abandonment, Drug use, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Mental illness, Torture, Vomit, Addiction, Kidnapping, Medical content, Self harm, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

astrangewind's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Mockingjay is a brilliant example of dystopian fiction. As a sequel, it draws on the previous books without replicating them, which is shockingly absent in much of YA fiction. It feels like a truly accurate representation of a true dystopia being taken down by a revolution, which is to say there cannot be a happy ending. And there isn't.

There's only the event, the grief that follows it, and the steady eventuality of learning how to live again, albeit not entirely happy.

Collins' expression of PTSD, through pretty much every character, is painfully accurate. No, the characters don't return home unscathed. It's a beautiful and necessary and heartwrenching book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, War, Death, Violence, Torture, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Animal death, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Forced institutionalization

downsophialane's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

This book is by far the hardest of the series to read; it's just so bleak and so sad. Every character is so horrendously traumatised. It's hard to watch Gale becoming more and more warlike, especially knowing how that ends. It's hard to see Peeta as a twisted husk of the lovely boy he was before. The expansion of Finnick's character is emotional but very well done.

His death is just so incredibly unfair, and I had forgotten it... because we, and Katniss, are never given a chance to properly mourn him. Prim's death feels like such an obvious metaphor - an effective one - but we spent so much time with Finnick and understood so much of his trauma. And then, we aren't given a chance to mourn him - which is why I'm sure I totally forgot that it happened! In my mind Finnick will be living a long, peaceful life with Annie by the sea somewhere.

Mockingjay is a war book. It's not my subgenre and reading it is stressful and awful. But, some bloated pacing in the middle notwithstanding, it's a very good book, asking young adult readers challenging questions of culpability in oppressive systems. That passivity can be violent was a massively influential idea for me when I first read this book in 2010 (and forever after). 

It's wild that love triangle had the cultural grip that it did because it's actually so sophisticated and complex? The key relationships and characters are so fascinating. I will never not be thinking about Peeta Mellark and Haymitch Abernathy and Finnick Odair. 

Some of the pacing in the middle was a little bloated but that ending was something to behold. Every decision.

The rebels win the war.... off page? Our heroine is unconscious for it? Such an interesting subversion of the Chosen One trope.

Excellent narration by Tatiana Maslany. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Mental illness, War, Death, Child death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Self harm

daisdu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Reread. Really good conclusion to the series. I feel it tied up all the threads that have been laid over the course of the books, while still acknowledging that life goes on, and though this conclusion might not be perfect, it was still worth fighting for. Definitely some painful moments over the course of the book- I cried a lot, but I think those moments were done really well and felt worth something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Addiction, Murder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Medical content, Genocide, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Classism