MockingjayThe Hunger Games, Book 3
Author: Suzanne Collins
Genre: dystopia, fantasy, young adult
Pages: 390
I will not endeavor to sum up Mockingjay, which I finished less than a minute ago (the tears still stain my cheeks). Books do not often make me cry, but this one definitely did. It almost did innumerable times, but in the end it got me. I will not add my opinion on the book to the internet; I just want to say that I felt heartbroken the entire time I was reading it. This series makes you feel.
Rather than saying anything else myself, I will conclude with the lyrics to a song I do not know particularly well, which came on while I was reading the book and struck a particularly fitting chord:
"There's a cold fire
There's a crossfire
And there's something
Inside, inside
And we'll never, never
Make it
And we'll never, never
Break it
Until, until
There's a long game
That's a wrong chain
And it's something
We all hide it
Inside
And we'll never, never make it
And we'll never, never break it
Until we learn to see
Until we set free
And you got style
And you got grace
And you got the means
To leave that place
But you'll never, never make it
And you'll never, never break it
Until you learn to see
Until you set free
So set free
Set free
Set free
Set free
De de dum de de de
De de dum de de de
Free, oh
Set free
If we could see that this was all that we need
Inside our minds
Bodies and souls
We wouldn't run and we would let go
Cause we'd realize
That we had
That we had no control"
There's a crossfire
And there's something
Inside, inside
And we'll never, never
Make it
And we'll never, never
Break it
Until, until
There's a long game
That's a wrong chain
And it's something
We all hide it
Inside
And we'll never, never make it
And we'll never, never break it
Until we learn to see
Until we set free
And you got style
And you got grace
And you got the means
To leave that place
But you'll never, never make it
And you'll never, never break it
Until you learn to see
Until you set free
So set free
Set free
Set free
Set free
De de dum de de de
De de dum de de de
Free, oh
Set free
If we could see that this was all that we need
Inside our minds
Bodies and souls
We wouldn't run and we would let go
Cause we'd realize
That we had
That we had no control"
Amazing book! Lots of tears shed here, too... At least it was a somewhat happy ending... :) As for the song above... sent shivers down my spine...
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ReplyDeleteI'm reading this book now! It's fantastic! Absolutely stunning! I loved the first two books as well. Still don't know what will happen at the end of the book, but soon I'll figure out :)
ReplyDeleteI was very disappointed by the end of the book. Was depressed all day!
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, I think she probably wanted you to be depressed all day. Yeah, I'm of two minds about Mockingjay. I think I'll have to reread the whole trilogy before I can firmly declare my opinions of it.
DeleteI didn't really like Mockingjay that much; like Owl In A Cloak, I found the ending very disappointing. I felt like Suzanne Collins had rushed the ending somehow; it didn't have a satisfying finish and when I finished the book it still felt somewhat incomplete.
ReplyDeleteLove the song, it's very fitting.
ReplyDeleteI didn't like mockingjay quite as much as the other two hunger games books, but i think it was purely because mockingjay is actually very different to the other two books.
While HG and CF were ultimately about love and survival, I felt that KJ was very much about war, and had a very different feel to it. I have to say that I was a bit depressed by the end too :(
I'm pretty sure she WANTED you to be depressed at the ending. On one level, that's something I really appreciate. I mean, most of my least favorite dystopias are the ones where the author is afraid to do really cruel things to their characters. If life isn't awful, if people are dying, it's general not going to feel that bad.
DeleteHonestly, the way she set things up, that was as happy as things could possibly be. Peeta was incredibly emotionally scarred, and, really, it's a bit of a miracle they were able to be that level of happy.
The part that I had an issue with was Prim. I just did not get that.
Feeling somewhat depressed after finishing this one. I mean, I'm glad Peeta & Katniss are finally together but what a cost! I'm so sad for Prim :(
ReplyDeleteDefinitely leave Mockingjay feeling depressed. It's both a strength and a weakness, I think. I mean, we want them to be happy, or at least happier. But, at the same time, this fractured future is perhaps more believable? I don't know.
Deletelike mockingjay cryed for prim
ReplyDeleteAs much as I love Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay felt rushed to me. Probably because I felt that there needed to be more! I loved it though, I just wish that she made it a bit lengthier
ReplyDeleteFelt the same way at the end of Mockingjay ... heartbroken. Definitely my favorite out of the series.
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