Book Review

Great book to finish the series! Mockingjay

Mockingjay (2010)

Collins, Suzanne

Fiction

This book brings to a conclusion the series.  It really focuses on how Katniss has helped to motivate the “rebels” to fight against the Capitol. Katniss realizes she has been used by the Capitol to bring down the other districts and force them to not work together. In the end Katniss must also make a final choice between Peeta and Gale.

One of the major themes of this book is the use of propaganda by the Capitol to control the rebels and the districts.

Suzanne Collins continues to write an excellent book full of suspense.  However, readers would not be able to understand this book without reading the first two.

This book was written primarily for a young adult audience.  However, because of the series popularity it is also being read my adults.  The violent themes in the book make it inappropriate for younger readers.

I would definitely recommend this book to others as it answers many of the questions introduced in the first two books in the series.  This series is one of my favorites. School Library Journal describes it “as a fitting end of the series that began with The Hunger Games (2008) and Catching Fire (2009) and will have the same lasting resonance. While some feel it is not as good as the other two books, The New York Times says that it maintains the same fascination as the first two books, Mockingjay” is not as impeccably plotted as “The Hunger Games,” but none­theless retains its fierce, chilly fascination”.