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A review by divinehealer14
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
challenging
dark
medium-paced
3.0
This is one of the hardest, most depressing books I have ever read in my whole life.
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, Finnick and Prim’s deaths
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
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Gore, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, War, and Violence