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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

84 reviews

rosita's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Child death, Death, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual violence, Death of parent, Addiction, Torture, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism and Miscarriage

gracewiley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Murder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, War, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Slavery, Gore, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Animal death, Pedophilia, Rape, and Child abuse

livreads16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Still good… all these years later. I’m still impressed by the writing and the story. The way Katniss

kills Coin just moves me in very specific way that few other things do.

I think this series is complex and challenging as a YA novel and it should be taught in schools. Not that we need more white stories taught in school but if we’re gonna teach white people books make it be this one. At the end of the audio book Suzanne Collins talks about how she came up with the idea for the hunger games while flipping back and fourth between reality TV and coverage of the Iraq war. And that is really interesting. She also tells young people to consider what the implications are that we have some people in the world who take their next meal for granted while others are scrounging to get by. And you know what Suzanne? I think about that a lot. And I get angry every time I think about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Slavery, Alcoholism, Blood, Confinement, Gun violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, War, Animal death, Drug use, Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage

robinskye28's review against another edition

adventurous sad slow-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

2.0

Really struggled to finish this. I was a huge fan of the first two in the series so I thought this was going to be good but I was wrong. Stupidly slow pace in the beginning but in the last 80ish pages everything started going so fast I couldn't keep up. Nothing was explained clearly enough, characters were dropping dead like flies and I had to watch the film to actually understand the ending! I still don't know who half of the characters are, I finished the book and was glad it was over with, took me three months though. Wouldn't recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Drug use, Gun violence, Torture, Self harm, Genocide, Medical content, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Vomit, Death, War, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Police brutality, Confinement, Animal death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Eating disorder

So. Much. Death.

grey_writes_love's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-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

5.0

Collins is a master of emotions and portrayal of trauma. I cried. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: Torture, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

gurnoor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and War

Minor: Miscarriage

alyssadavis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-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

3.75

But one day I’ll have to explain about my nightmares. Why they came. Why they won’t ever really go away.

I’ll tell them how I survive it. I’ll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I’m afraid it could be taken away. That’s when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I’ve seen someone do. It’s like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.

But there are much worse games to play.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Child death

Moderate: Rape, Grief, Violence, Trafficking, Classism, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death of parent and Miscarriage

kamrynkoble's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

2024 Reread:
I REALLY thought I was FINALLY safe, but I still cried. At a resort in Mexico while a boy splashed me and drunk Europeans screamed. This trilogy is so beautiful and gut-wrenching and they just attack me in a way that no other books ever have. Katniss isn’t even real and I would do anything to give her a hug. Man, this book is just completely devastating and yet the epilogue is still so perfectly hopeful. I know I won’t ever be able to write books this powerful but I am so thankful that Collins did.  I will never, EVER stop thinking about them and I’ve accepted that I’m going to be doing rereads for the rest of my life. 

2023 Reread:
Well, I’m sobbing. I just finished reading this entire trilogy aloud to my husband—the boyfriend in my below 2019 reread that had to sit there while I cried then too.

I love this story. I love Katniss even more. It’s perfect. Each time I revisit Mockingjay especially, it means that much more to me. I don’t think there will ever be a time I can read this without crying. Favorite books ever, infinite stars. 


2019 Reread:
When this book first came out, I was in fifth grade and I had to beg and plead for someone to take me to a Walmart to buy it. 

It’s always been my “least favorite” of the trilogy. It just has a different feel to it. The games are different, Katniss is different, Lord knows Peeta is different. It’s cold, it’s bloody, it’s broken. I kept forgetting who all died until I would reach paragraphs before their deaths, and would be afraid to keep reading and reach the inevitable. 

All three of these books broke me now in a way that they didn’t before. I’m older than Katniss now, not years younger when I first met this incredible protagonist. 

Even though Mockingjay is generally considered the weakest book, I found myself having to exhale and mutter under my breath at the profoundness of various phrases. It’s gut-wrenching. 

I think Mockingjay is the one I’ve reread the least. It’s not perfect. The trilogy isn’t perfect. But my word, it reached me. And that’s all I can ask for from literature. There’s no doubt in my mind that they will be considered classics, and I feel fortunate to have read them in their prime.

So here I am, sitting with my poor boyfriend crying over these characters and this story. I have a feeling this won’t be my last time returning to them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pregnancy and Miscarriage

punkisocks's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Vomit, War, Body horror, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Torture

sophie42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Classism, Drug use, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Animal death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Miscarriage, and Suicide attempt