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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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Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Kidnapping, Death of parent
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- Collins gives us an unflinching view of the effects of war throughout this book. War is devastating, the loss of life unimaginable, the trauma that it causes is deep. No one comes out on the other side unscathed.
- Like the previous two books, I think this one (and the entire series as a whole) is just so well thought out. I used to dislike the fact that Katniss loses a lot of her agency in Mockingjay, but I realize now that this was most likely intentional. It's still not pleasant to read, but you realize that this shows just how she kind of becomes a piece of the games again, used as a pawn by this new president. And it has us questioning throughout the book, "once this war ends and if this new government takes over, will things really change? Or is this a never-ending cycle?".
- Can't say that this ended on the brightest note, but I do appreciate the hope that it gives us. Even though Katniss suffered through tragedy after tragedy, she learns to find small moments of happiness in her daily life.
These books were truly an influential part of my adolescence, so glad I reread them and found new things to appreciate.
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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,
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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