Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

1155 pages

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2010

ISBN:
978-0-545-26535-5
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4 stars (24 reviews)

Mockingjay is a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series, following 2008's The Hunger Games and 2009's Catching Fire. The book continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, who agrees to unify the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol. The hardcover and audiobook editions of Mockingjay were published by Scholastic on August 24, 2010, six days after the ebook edition went on sale. The book sold 450,000 copies in the first week of release, exceeding the publisher's expectations. It received a generally positive reaction from critics. The book has been adapted into a two-part movie, with the first part released on November 21, 2014, and the second part released on November 20, 2015.

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Review of 'Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

In the final volume, Collins' rage against the Western Machine gives way to rage against human nature as Katniss goes to war. It's easily the best of the three books and brings everything to a satisfactory close - which is not to say that the ending is a giant ball of fluff. Indeed, Katniss goes through a few additional types of hell before all is done and gets a realistic, qualified, happily-ever-after.

There are still irritating flaws, even excluding carry-overs from the previous books but fewer of them. It's a shame that Collins did not take more time and care to ensure everything made logical sense in her world and to do some research on bows and hunting etc. as then this series would have been a towering achievement. As it is, it is the passionate anger driving the writing that makes these books worthwhile and everything wrong with them …

Review of 'Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

So I was thinking, "Eh, will give it my typical four stars," but the last 100 pages were incredibly intense; first time in a long time I couldn't put a book down - and that's the main reason I give it five stars. It's not a Change Your Life story, but Collins sure did craft a gripping story throughout these three books.

Also, I don't consider this a spoiler: Katniss, Peeta, and Gale should have considered polyamory.

Review of 'Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

so many thoughts; it's not as simple as commenting on one book, since this is the ending, so you reflect on the whole trilogy...

at first i was really bored by the whole peeta or gale seesaw - hello? twilight called and they want their pathethic plot device back.

i thought it was geting better when peeta hates katniss - finally! cause it's annoying that she's automatically so desired - but that whole i'm-trying-so-hard to-hold-back-from-hurting-you(biting your neck and sucking your blood, delicious bella)even-though-it-goes-against-my-capital-induced-programming(nature) reminded me (again!) of lameduck twilight

i wonder if the author had the movie rights sold bought before she wrote mockingjay - so much of it was framed inside a tv screen. that bugged me. and the capital as a rigged arena with pods going off every which …

Review of 'Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

"Because an angry, independently thinking victor with a layer of psychological scar tissue too thick to penetrate is maybe the last person you want on your squad."

I complained that the end of the first book was a little too predictable and the second had far too much power in the hands of the Capitol. This one, to me, is as near perfect an end of a series as I've seen.

The viewpoint throughout the entire series has been spot on, seeing it through the eyes of the main character really packs a punch. There's a great deal of psychological trauma, of course; and lots of death and sadness, which is perhaps not explored as fully as it could be. On the whole, though, it's a dependably solid end to a stunningly action-packed series.