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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

24 reviews

emfass's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

I really do like this book (though I like the first two better), and Tatiana Maslany was an incredible narrator. However, this final book in the trilogy is just relentless darkness and trauma and it was really hard to take on this read through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Slavery

Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

archaicgambit's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Overall I love this series but I did feel this book was weakest. I love a lot of the choices but I wasn't sold on some character decisions, as well as how the worldbuilding felt by the end of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Police brutality, Violence, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual assault

lostbuthey's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder

emzilia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

In my rereading of THG trilogy, I considered leaving this one out.  It truly is four hundred and fifty odd pages of bleakness. Of a seventeen year old being puppeteered for a war effort, whilst struggling alone with the overwhelming trauma that death, loss, murder and manipulation brings. I could hardly read the last fifty pages through my tears.

Katniss’ predicament makes sense of course, and the conversation Collins presents about war and enemies and victors I agree with, but it needs saying that this conclusion of the trilogy has such a bleak and dark plot that I am left feeling empty.

Despite the love I have for this series, I forgot and am disappointed in how shoehorned in the love triangle conflict is. In a series about a child living in famine, thrust into murder for sport - twice, who becomes unwittingly thrown about as a pawn for the rebel cause surrounded by adults who are largely unfussed by her unaddressed trauma, and then is off to battle in the war herself in a series of mishaps- Of course! We must remember this protagonist is a girl, so we must save room for the only two male friends in her life to compete as love interests. It is a sad feature in most YA novels with a female protagonist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and Vomit