Reader: Mollie WAge: 16
Title: Mockingjay
Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pub Date: 08/24/2010
Galley: No
Recommend: No
Compelling Aspect of the Book: For most of the book you feel connected with someone in the story. Even if it isn't Katniss, you end up caring about a couple of characters. It's easy to see some of yourself or someone you know in this book.
Were you disappointed with the book at all: The first 300 pages were decent—sub-par is how I would describe them, but I shrugged it off. I tried to go with it. I TRIED. This is where we enter into spoiler territory. The following information will leave it very clear how it ends, you have been warned. She skipped the revolution, killed Prim(?!?!??!!), turned Katniss into a weakling, and killed off Finick, leaving Peeta AND Gale completely untouched. Oh and Katniss ALMOST dies every other page.
Let's start from the top. The whole climax of this book is Katniss breaking into the Capitol and settling the score with Snow. But instead she's in the hospital, wakes up and the revolution is over. If that's not anti-climactic, I don't know what is. Secondly, Prim is the main reason Katniss is fighting. She's one of the few that Katniss has been working to protect this whole time. The way she killed off Prim was very weak as well. Some may say that it's realistic for Katniss to crumble under the pressure and have a meltdown for the first half of the book, but I ask, why now? She's survived two Hunger Games. One of the most admirable traits of Katniss was her strength which is not present for any of this book.
Finick was another unnecessary casualty. By this point, it's not so much that Finick died, it was that she didn't kill Peeta or Gale. If we're being "realistic" by the same standards as the people who disagree with me on the Katniss front, then one of them or both should have died. They were in harm’s way for the majority if not all of the book. Lastly, Katniss getting hurt all the time got really old. That's self-explanatory.
Comments: WHY SUZANNE COLLINS, WHY????????
Cover: The cover didn't stick with the pattern of the other two books. I didn't care for the color or the position the bird is in. It was a let-down and was nearly as intriguing as the other two were.
Did you finish: Yes
Age Range: Under 12 to 18 up
Quality: 1Q How did it get published?
Popularity: 3P Some teen appeal
Title: Mockingjay
Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pub Date: 08/24/2010
Galley: No
Recommend: No
Compelling Aspect of the Book: For most of the book you feel connected with someone in the story. Even if it isn't Katniss, you end up caring about a couple of characters. It's easy to see some of yourself or someone you know in this book.
Were you disappointed with the book at all: The first 300 pages were decent—sub-par is how I would describe them, but I shrugged it off. I tried to go with it. I TRIED. This is where we enter into spoiler territory. The following information will leave it very clear how it ends, you have been warned. She skipped the revolution, killed Prim(?!?!??!!), turned Katniss into a weakling, and killed off Finick, leaving Peeta AND Gale completely untouched. Oh and Katniss ALMOST dies every other page.
Let's start from the top. The whole climax of this book is Katniss breaking into the Capitol and settling the score with Snow. But instead she's in the hospital, wakes up and the revolution is over. If that's not anti-climactic, I don't know what is. Secondly, Prim is the main reason Katniss is fighting. She's one of the few that Katniss has been working to protect this whole time. The way she killed off Prim was very weak as well. Some may say that it's realistic for Katniss to crumble under the pressure and have a meltdown for the first half of the book, but I ask, why now? She's survived two Hunger Games. One of the most admirable traits of Katniss was her strength which is not present for any of this book.
Finick was another unnecessary casualty. By this point, it's not so much that Finick died, it was that she didn't kill Peeta or Gale. If we're being "realistic" by the same standards as the people who disagree with me on the Katniss front, then one of them or both should have died. They were in harm’s way for the majority if not all of the book. Lastly, Katniss getting hurt all the time got really old. That's self-explanatory.
Comments: WHY SUZANNE COLLINS, WHY????????
Cover: The cover didn't stick with the pattern of the other two books. I didn't care for the color or the position the bird is in. It was a let-down and was nearly as intriguing as the other two were.
Did you finish: Yes
Age Range: Under 12 to 18 up
Quality: 1Q How did it get published?
Popularity: 3P Some teen appeal
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