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Mockingjay

By Suzanne Collins

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| Hardcover | 9780439023511

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The Hunger Games, Vol. 3

Can Katniss Everdeen win the final fight against the Capitol?

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do th Continue

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Katniss Everdeen can stand tall. She's won two hunger games and, in the second, the cards were stacked against her. Katness Everdeen, the girl on fire (a reference to her costume in the second games), finds herself as the Mockingjay. The Mockingjay i ... (read full critics)

sfsite published on Tue, 2 Nov 2010

Mockingjay By Suzanne Collins

Anyone who has ever loved a series feels equal parts anticipation and worry when cracking the cover of the latest installment. Can the adventures of the characters you’ve been dreaming about for the past year live up to the ones you’ve imagined for t ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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Some walks you have to take alone.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. there are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.
It is by design that Katn ... (continue)

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. there are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.
It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans -- except Katniss.
The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay--no matter what the personal cost.
"...it's our hunting rendez-vous place. [ ]
Nothing but a place where I was happy, [ ]
this was the doorway to both susteance and sanity.
And we were each other's keys."
It's a horryfying sensation being pinned against the wall as the bombs rain down. What was the expression my father used for easy kills? Like shooting fish in a barrel. We are the fish, the street is the barrel... (Suzanne Collins) Rating: 10 and honors ♥

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Maristella said on Jan 25, 2011 | Add your feedback

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Everything should end in book 2, drags on too long.

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康加美 said on May 7, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Heart-wrenching and yet perfect ending to one of the most well-written, entertaining, enticing and unputdownable series I've ever read!
A bitter, harsh ending thay says more than words actually tell. There's a message in these pages, and it's a fraightening one.
Collins handwriting is amazingly flu ... (continue)

Heart-wrenching and yet perfect ending to one of the most well-written, entertaining, enticing and unputdownable series I've ever read!
A bitter, harsh ending thay says more than words actually tell. There's a message in these pages, and it's a fraightening one.
Collins handwriting is amazingly fluent, it streams like water and keeps you glued to the words. It makes it hard to go back to real life and concentrate on something else.
I loved it and hated it and ended up crying.
This ending is many things. It's bitter, it's harsh, it's heart-breakingly fair. And it's beautiful.

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Rowina said on Apr 11, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Missed chance for a masterpiece

One more star for the uncompromising, smart and satisfying final. I feared it would drift into a shallow 'happily ever after', but it had the courage to drive its critical view on mankind and society to the extreme and complete the series accordingly,
What I am dissatisfied with is all linked to th ... (continue)

One more star for the uncompromising, smart and satisfying final. I feared it would drift into a shallow 'happily ever after', but it had the courage to drive its critical view on mankind and society to the extreme and complete the series accordingly,
What I am dissatisfied with is all linked to the chosen writing style, as it was for the previous instalments, even if to a lesser extent. The first person view, and a relatively dumb first person for that matter, does not allow the writer to go through events happening away from her at all. The war, the final uprising, the behind-the-scenes decisions during then two capital processes that close the book.... All this could have been treated better and in line with the main tropos of the story... A lost opportunity
Also, really, did someone care about the love triangle? The worthy winner was clear from the very beginning, all the rest, useless fluff
But I liked it, and I would love to see something more written on how Panem developed, hopefully again sticking to the realistic view of the self-damaging species which is humanking

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emanuele said on May 14, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I finished the Hunger trilogy this morning, and I gotta say, I found it rather... eh.
I mean, I loved the first two books, they were well written and flowing with suspance, but I think the final book was a little rushed up, especially in its conclusive chapters: after three books, after thousand pag ... (continue)

I finished the Hunger trilogy this morning, and I gotta say, I found it rather... eh.
I mean, I loved the first two books, they were well written and flowing with suspance, but I think the final book was a little rushed up, especially in its conclusive chapters: after three books, after thousand pages of "I should pick Gale, I mean we were hunter buddies!" and "I should pick Peeta, I mean we were together in the Games twice...and he can cook cakes. Cakes, for the love of God!" to just finish things off on the last page, I found it...unsatisfactory. And what about Gale? What about Haymitch? What about Buttercup the cat? Don't we deserve to know what happens to them?
But seriously, love triangle aside, I felt that even the fall of the Capitol was a bit of a letdown, because after chapters and chapters of building up our expections, and the death of Finnick (so long, Finnick, you will be missed) I was hoping in something more epic than just the rebels to shoot over some poor childrens and then saying "So, I guess we won now."
But maybe that's precisely the beauty of this trilogy, I mean, that is so believable that could really happen, even IRL.

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cbgb said on May 13, 2012 | Add your feedback

The ending was too rushed and Collins throws everything violent and just ugly about war in its last chapters. The epilogue however is cute and happy, but a reminder of the scars war leaves.

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waitingforatrain said on Apr 13, 2012 | Add your feedback