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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

107 reviews

marslotus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

So it's taken me a good few days to think about what to say about this book, because I did like it I won't lie, but I've said before I feel that this is the weakest entry of the Hunger Games Trilogy and I just wanna talk about what issue bothers me the most (also apologies if this all sounds really negative, I'm better at wording my negative thoughts than my positive ones haha).

A lot of my problems with this book were often very small things that stacked on top of one another until it felt like a substantial pile of issues, but there was one problem I felt really stood out. A part of me feels like the knowledge of

Primrose's death

before it happened may have attributed to my feelings, but I was very disappointed in her lack of character. I knew

Coin and Prim would be dying by the end of Mockingjay, but when I was about 90% through the book I thought, "Would both deaths really be happening along with large, emotional ripple effects in the last few pages of this book? There's not pages for that and an ending, maybe they only happen in the movies?".

And yet it all happened and a part of me feels like I can't judge the pacing of it cause I was literally waiting for it to happen, but the last quarter of the book felt like it forced way too many things in such a short about of time. The realization I came to however, especially with Prim, was that I felt no emotions about either

death whatsoever.

It further made me realize how flat Prim was in comparison with the entire cast, she is a person with no faults and nothing negative to say to Katniss and I firmly believe that if Katniss was a male character we would be chastising the author for making a female character with so little dimension but are told she means the world to the protagonist.

When Prim died, I think a friend of mine put it best where it felt like it wasn't Primrose Everdeen who died, but Katniss's sister.

I understand she is quite literally meant to be the symbol of innocence in this series, but if I'm meant to feel something for her, I really need more than her existing just so we feel sad about Rue, or

so we feel sad for Katniss when she dies

because I feel like those are the only two things her character really accomplished. I'm especially saddened by this because Prim is Katniss's root throughout the entire series, (or at least was supposed to be, sometimes it felt like Katniss literally forgot about her sometimes when she would think about her life without Peeta) she is the main reason Katniss does the things she does.

Something I feel would greatly improve this issue is to just give Prim the slightest bit of conflict with Katniss, an easy way of doing this would be for Prim in Catching Fire to be mad at Katniss for volunteering for the games in her place. Even though Katniss came back alive, maybe there could be some sense of "How could you make me think you would die, I watched you every day hoping you'd make it," and she could feel conflicted about voicing that opinion cause she didn't even go through the games, so what right would she have to complain. All of this could be hanging over Katniss's head until the Quarter Quell is announced and maybe Prim realizes being mad about this isn't worth it, but it's too late and Katniss is gone. I don't know, I wanted Prim to be more that just some pure, healing angel or

a lamb sent for the slaughter.

She felt so nothing to me that I feel as though sometimes she could have only existed in Katniss's mind and not much would have changed.

Also I didn't like how Peeta was kind of just...

thrown into Katniss's ending. I never really felt like they really reconnected again and him being in District 12 felt a bit weird.

It makes me feel like for the past two books we were given something we were meant to look forward to as an audience, a meaningful relationship between Katniss and Peeta (not even necessarily a romantic one!), but everything in the end of the book was so rushed. I really wish a lot of the ending moments happened just a bit earlier in the book so we had time to think about it all. But I dunno, maybe this just wasn't my thing. I'm not the biggest fan of war stories and when like 10 characters were introduced to very obviously die so we'd feel bad about the horrors of war, I'm so upset to say I felt nothing. I know there was probably no where else for the series to go, but I kinda wish it wasn't a war book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, War, and Suicide attempt

colorful_lulu's review against another edition

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

auggie_reads's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, War, and Self harm

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

thenevermore's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Suicide attempt, War, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

loveisabird's review against another edition

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

a_wandering_thinker's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Addiction, Confinement, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Gun violence, Medical content, War, Blood, Murder, Suicide attempt, Torture, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Grief

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

cecinamo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.75

Amazing end to the trilogy! It had me hooked beginning to end, I finished it in less than a day. Katniss is such an interesting character, I love how she is portrayed as human, not as this perfect protagonist. Also just they way Suzanne Collins wrote all the characters was amazing. They all had such depth. All the deaths were heartbreaking.

maybe not Alma Coins ;)

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Self harm, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Blood, Classism, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Torture, Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Gore, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts