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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) (edition 2010)

by Suzanne Collins

Series: The Hunger Games (3)

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Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn.
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Title:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
Authors:Suzanne Collins
Info:Scholastic Press (2010), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 400 pages
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I appreciated that this book was different from the previous two - it would have been frustrating if it hadn't been. However, I'm still somewhat disappointed with the series as a whole. It seems like it could have been much better with slightly better writing and had the author been willing to write for a generally older audience. As it was, Katniss' childish actions often detracted from the story, and I was mostly left wondering how much better the book could have been if it had been a bit more fleshed out. ( )
  mrbearbooks | Apr 22, 2024 |
2nd time reading this series (my son wanted me to read it to him). Great story, fantastic characters, quite graphic for the faint of heart (or kids too young). Definitely a trilogy that will last the ages though. ( )
  jbrownleo | Mar 27, 2024 |
I liked it, but not as much as the first two books. A lot of that is dissatisfaction with the ending...I wasn't anticipating a happy ending, certainly, after all that, but it was even more of a downer than I expected. ( )
  ledonnelly | Mar 11, 2024 |
absolute perfection.
growing up really is realizing that this is the best book in the series. ( )
  gojosatoru98 | Mar 1, 2024 |
I never did like Peeta---still don't ( )
  jazzbird61 | Feb 29, 2024 |
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Collins is absolutely ruthless in her depictions of war in all its cruelty, violence, and loss, leaving readers, in turn, repulsed, shocked, grieving and, finally, hopeful for the characters they've grown to empathize with and love. Mockingjay is a fitting end to the series that began with The Hunger Games (2008) and Catching Fire (2009) and will have the same lasting resonance as William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Stephen King's The Stand. However, the book is not a stand-alone; readers do need to be familiar with the first two titles in order to appreciate the events and characters in this one.
added by sduff222 | editSchool Library Journal, Jane Henriksen Baird (Aug 31, 2010)
 
All in all, Mockingjay confirms what we've suspected already — The Hunger Games isn't just a powerful saga about a unique, memorable hero struggling to do the right thing in the public gaze. It's also an important work of science fiction that everyone should read, because if you don't, you'll be left out of all the best conversations.
added by stephmo | editio9, Charlie Jane Anders
 
The novel's biggest surprises are found elsewhere. Hope emerges from despair. Even in a dystopian future, there's a better future.
added by stephmo | editUSA Today, Bob Minzesheimer
 
More maudlin than the first two books in the series, "Mockingjay" is also the most violent and bloody and, based on the actions and statements of its characters, its most overtly antiwar — though not so much that it distracts from a series conclusion that is nearly as shocking, and certainly every bit as original and thought provoking, as "The Hunger Games."
added by Shortride | editLos Angeles Times, Susan Carpenter
 
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Collins, Suzanne—primary authorall editionsconfirmed
McCormick, CarolynNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
O'Brien, TimCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Parisi, Elizabeth B.Cover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ramírez Tello, PilarTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Canonical title
Mockingjay
Original title
Mockingjay
Alternative titles
Original publication date
2010-08-24
People/Characters
Katniss Everdeen
Peeta Mellark
Gale Hawthorne
Primrose Everdeen
Coriolanus Snow
Important places
Panem
District 12
District 13
The Capitol
District 8
Important events
Related movies
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014 | IMDb)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015 | IMDb)
Epigraph
Dedication
For Cap, Charlie, and Isabel
First words
I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather.
Quotations
My arms rise slightly - as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me - then come to rest at my sides. "I'm going to be the Mockingjay."
He understands I don't want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.
And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.
"No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion," I tell him.
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
Last words
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Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Egan, Kate
Rees, Jen
Levithan, David
Blurbers
King, Stephen
Meyer, Stephenie
Original language
English
Canonical DDC/MDS
813.6
Canonical LCC
PZ7.C6837
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Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn.
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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.
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Peeta, Katniss, Gale,
The Hunger Games they had played.
Now it's war they face.
In the aftermath
of the Quarter Quell, all have
to fight their demons.
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Book one was so good
My appetite waned by two
By three, not hungry

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813.6Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 21st Century

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