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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!!!!!!!!
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcohol
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Kidnapping, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War
Stunning, brilliant, fantastic—there are so many words to describe the book. It made me cry so many times, it made me tense so many times, and it was heavy in a way that clings to your heart and perhaps your very being after you read it. It highlights so many realistic tragedies of war, and I think it's a book worth reading for that alone.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Trafficking, Murder
Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Vomit
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
Graphic: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, War, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Miscarriage, Slavery, Vomit, Trafficking, Pregnancy