Mockingjay was probably your least favorite book in the Hunger Games, amirite?

I read the book a week after it came out and I am still mad that Finnick died.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

He died?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

SPOILER DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK. Yeah, when the mutts were chasing them in the sewer things. He was ripped to shreds (cry2).

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh yeah, I vaguely remember everyone with Katniss dying and her feeling guilty. I sort of blocked out most of the deaths and battle scenes because I just wanted to finish at that point.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Too much of it was Katniss going insane and passing out and whining and starving herself and going through all this emotional shit. --probably because it was written from a female's perspective--

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah that was basically the book.. her going insane.. and then Peeta wanted to kill her.. and at the end of the book her mom and Gale just kind of left her.. :( and killing Prim was totally NOT necessary!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was really mad at Suzanne Collins for killing Prim.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I kind of saw it coming, but I felt it was very representative. For instance, at first, it seems like Katniss failed everything, considering she only volunteeredn in the reaping to save her sister in the first place, but it also showed that Katniss had gotten herself into something bigger- that her original motives didn't matter anymore because she had more to worry about than just het family.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Do you think it would've been nearly as memorable if she hadn't killed Prim? She took a real risk, and she tried to show every atrocity of the Games and the War, including the death of a beloved character. I think that's admirable.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Did Gale really have to be the probable cause of her death, though? I feel like that was just done to clear the way for Peeta at the very end after Katniss had annoyingly strung both boys along until the last possible second.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Key word: probable She left it up to the imagination

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Seems like laziness or a last resort.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It crushed my spirits :(

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It was anticlimactic. They ran around hiding instead of fighting, and then it was kind of just over.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Not probably, MOST DEFINITELY.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think the whole revolution thing could have been longer and more detailed and more action packed. the whole thing seemed rushed. The only book I liked in the series was the first. the whole series is pretty overrated.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I loved the series but Mockingjay was definitely my least favorite even though I had to keep reading it.. Katniss just was kinda stupid in the third book.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

yeah, I definitely didn't agree with a lot of Katniss's actions in that book. Also, near the end I started skimming because I just wanted to be done with it, and it wasn't until a few chapters later when I thought "Wait, Prim died?" Either I read through that part too fast or the author didn't really go over it at the time as much as she should have. And I hate how Gale is totally forgotten about at the end - how he was basically a bad memory for Katniss.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I know!! Killing Prim was totally unnecessary and Gale was her best friend and...the only good part is that the Hunger Games ends and she ends up with Peeta. :)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think Collins knew from the beginning that she wanted Katniss to end up with Peeta, but she wasn't sure how to make him seem like the best option. My guess is that she didn't think about why Katniss shouldn't be with Gale until she began writing the final book, so she just bullshitted it and had him kill someone meaningful to Katniss. I actually preferred Gale in the books, probably because I have a thing for best-friends-for-life-becoming-romantic-partners stories. Peeta to me seemed like a nincompoop. To be honest, Gale appeared to be more intelligent than Peeta. However, in the movie, I definitely preferred Peeta because they just made Gale seem like a jealous asshole, and Peeta as the sweet, selfless dipshit he is :P

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah I like the best friend romance story too but I was rooting for Peeta the whole time. And who did Gale kill that was meaningful to Katniss?! I don't remember..

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Near of the end of the last book, Katniss thought he was the cause of Prim's death. his idea with the bombs or whatever is what killed her, so I guess he's indirectly responsible for her death.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I hate the fact that she ended up with Peeta. She shouldn't have ended up with either one of them. When Peeta got highjacked, she completely wrote him off. She didn't love him. And with Gale, she kinda treated him badly. She led him on and had no respect for his feelings.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Collins should've trolled us and had Katniss end up with a drunk Haymitch and Prim become a prostitute. It would've certainly have been less predictable. And more... interesting. I dunno, I'm not a fan of love triangles. I really didn't like any of the romance in the series. It would've been a lot more interesting with more action and revolutioning and less lovey-dovey stuff.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The love triangle has been way over done. I'm more into the action.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I would say it was at least realistic. Revolutions aren't as glorious as people may think.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't think that is what people dislike. People dislike the lack of detail and the way the third book seemed very rushed.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yet it still described what happened and was still addicting to read. I couldn't set any of the books down. I don't remember seeing Mockingjay as any different, really.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh, I agree. I stayed up until 2:30 in the morning when I had to get up at 6 the next morning for work reading the 3rd book. I loved the series.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I feel like the only person who has never read The Hunger Games...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was //okay// with the series until I read Mockingjay, then as a whole, I decided I really disliked it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Ditto

by Anonymous 11 years ago

sorry I am team Gale so I like the scene where they make out.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I hated Peeta ever since about 3 years ago when I finished it, and the first two books were Katniss not liking him, but she changed her mind in Mockingjay. Go die Peeta.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I felt like that she liked him in Catching Fire.. and I LOVE Peeta.

by Anonymous 11 years ago