+400 The ending to Mockingjay felt a little bit rushed. You'd think the author would write a bit more on the whole plot line of Katniss choosing either Peeta or Gale- even if it was just half a chapter. But it seemed to work out just too fast and the other character was just kind of brushed off without a real goodbye. amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i'm in the middle of reading it!!! :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Then I'm glad I didn't ruin anything in this post. I tried to make it 'un-spoilery' for everyone who's still reading it ha (; I'd hate it for it to be spoiled. Just one question, Peeta or Gale? Who do you like better?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Peeta

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I just finished reading it like, a hour or two ago! :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How did you like it?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I love it(: But deffinatly not as much as the other two books. How about you?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I honestly thought the book sucked. The other two were good, but this one just wasn't. Katniss spent practically the whole book crazy, or sick, or crying somewhere, and then suddenly when something is actually happening at the end. It just ends abruptly, and Katniss isn't really even part of it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My thoughts exactly. Katniss was whiny and annoying for the better half of the book and she messed a lot of things up and then all of a sudden some real plot started to develop but before we could really grasp any of it the the loose ends all tied up in like a couple of chapters worth and the book just ended :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I hated Mockingjay. I bawled my eyes out and then threw the book across the room when i was done reading it. I most definitely agree it was a shitty ending.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think Catching Fire is the best out of the three.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

same, there are so many more characters to love

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The ending wasn't bad. It just should have been in more detail and less abrupt, though. The whole book drags out every little thing and everything is going wrong and everyone is a bit crazy. Then all of a sudden everything is fine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Team peeta or team gale? Isn't itvobvious? TEAM FINNICK

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Agreed! Who doesn't love a guy wearing only a knotted fishing net who eats sugar cubes and wants to know everyone's secrets?!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was so sad when Finnick died!! It was such a short and undignified death, too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know! And Katniss wasn't even sad about it. She's just like, Oh there goes Finnick. Darn.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly! I had to go back and reread it because I didn't notice what had really happened to him. It was like 3 sentences of death and another one of mourning.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I thought finnick dissappeared, then I read the wikipedia article and i was like oh...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The meaning behind MockingJay is too complex for the mere human mind....

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Funny, because a human wrote it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Actually, no. I'm not so low as to do something like that. Maybe a mod deleted it, sorry.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

And anyways, sure, it is complex. But just because a portion of humans couldn't understand the book doesn't mean that others cannot as well.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Nobody's contradicting ya.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I HATED THE ENDING. I hate Peeta, I hate how there wasn't actually a battle, I hate how it didn't end up being a showdown between her and Snow, I just hated that entire plot. DIE PEETA, DIE. NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR PIDDLY FEELINGS. Well, I don't. I never could stand him, Gale is so much cooler.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I hated the whole book, it just had nothing there for me. Catching Fire was pretty good, but for me The Hunger Games was by far the best of the trilogy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I love how you purposely didn't ruin the ending for everyone by giving it away.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It isn't Twilight. It's not a love story. Get over it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think that was the point. It was the pacing of the plot that was annoying, not necessarily the specific ending itself.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I love Peeta! But at times I was torn between the two. But ultimately, Peeta gave his life up for Katniss, how could you not love him for that? And Gale seemed to get malicious in the end, so I think Peeta was the better match. I honestly thought Katniss would die in the end. In some ways, she didn't deserve either of them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the thing about peeta i dont like is that she changed so much about herself and while SC makes it seem like she doesn't. gale would've been a better choice if she didn't change. Plus Katniss is suppose to be tough and peeta doesnt match he in physical strength which imo he should.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

sounds like this guy didn't read the book... physical strength? multiple times Katniss mentions Peeta's strong arms and how she felt safe in them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

i think peeta is better for katniss, but if it were me i woulda picked gale

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Regardless of who she picked, I liked the ending. The part about the book they made about people who died was really touching.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I liked the part at the very end where she was talking about the little game she plays of listing everything good in her life, and then says it might be stupid but "there are worst games to play." It might be cheesy I think that's a good perspective to have on life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not really because of how the plot was presented but just because I grew so attached to the characters was why I disliked Mockingjay. From a fan perspective, not a literary criticism. I mean, people were dying left and right.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Book three was just boring overall compared the the first two. :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thank God! I thought I was the only one that thought that! My friends all loved the last book, but I thought it was messy and rushed; especially towards the end.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Did anyone else think Finnick's death was lame? When I was reading, I noticed, "hey, where's Finnick?" I went back a few pages, read his death scene again, and realized he was dead. Poor Finnick.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly! It was just like, "Oh yeah, and then finnick died."

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I thought the ending was a bit rushed, but it was pretty realistic. It was how it probably would have happened if any of that were real.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALE :((((

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i cried when i was done. the ending was wrong, rushed and downright...whats the word...shitty and appearing to be written by an arrogant college writing major instead of a distinguished author. all of the people that died, they werent nececary and they added nothing but sadness to the plot. it was like new moon, choosing between 2 guys and spending the book depressed. there was NO closure and this book literally made me sit in the corner and analyse it for hours on end, and not in a good way. finnick and prim dying...what the fuck? choosing peeta over gale...im not happy about it but she could have at least talked to gale ONCE. and im still not entirely sure why she killed coin. the entire book was utterly disapointing

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't mind the love story ending like it did. I did however mind how things were very choppy. (e.g. Finnick's death, When Ketniss reaches the mansion and then she passes out, After she shoots Coin and is in lock-down and goes home, Gale going to district 2, etc.) Someone above said the book was boring. I definitely didn't think the book was boring, but it did have a lot of potential to be greater than it was. By far Mockingjay was hung on the level of creativity by it's author, and for that I was impressed. However, I do feel like towards the end, she was anticipating it being over, and started to wrap up stories without great detail, which was a disappointment. Overall I actually enjoyed The Hunger Games the best, then Mockingjay, then Catching Fire. The writing was the best in the first book. However, if all three end up being films, Mockingjay will make the greatest film. The writing doesn't quite meet the depth and imagery that the last Twilight and Harry Potter books met, but it was enjoyable.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree completely with the novel being very choppy. I really didn't mind how the love story ended because though it was important it wasn't integral like Bella ending up with Edward would be in the Twilight series. My problem is that the book was very intense but then toward the last few chapters everything was wrapped up really quickly and kind of ruined the effect of all the chapters before it. Finnick's quick death and Gale's quick departure really upset me. Gale was so important to Katniss and such a big part of her life and Collins just wrote him off in one line "Gale would be off in district 2 with some other girl" or something to that effect. And plus I'm a huge Katniss/Gale shipper so it really broke my heart when she sort of blamed him for Prim's death. WHICH BY THE WAY IS TOTALLY ILLOGICAL. I mean, all the Peeta fans who say Gale was responsible are dellusional. It's like saying Einstein was responsible for Hiroshima. It was just all very choppy and it didn't live up to it's potential. Collins is wonderful, but she doesn't live up to the standards of Rowling who kicked ass with her final installment. It just seemed like she lost interest by the end of Mockingjay

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Monica he was responsible. Einstein was a brilliant man and a pacifist, but yes he is responsible, he abandoned his beliefs and joined the atomic race against Hitler. This is how I translated what you just said: A man is selling guns, some deranged guy comes and buys a rifle. he takes that rifles and kills 50 civilians in a crowded square. The guy who sold the gun is not responsible... does that make sense to you Monica? Everyone who had ANY part in the Manhattan Project is to blame for what happened to Hiroshima, they all knew what they were building and HOW it was going to be used. Was it a necessary evil? many would say yes...but I am not one to decide that. Was the Manhattan Project a necessity? YES absolutely. Getting back on Hunger Games topic... yes Gale and Volts are to blame for what happened to those kids, So is Coin, and so is whoever flew the airship and probably countless others.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Personally I don't really care anymore if people hold Gale responsible because to me it's a matter of perspective. I'm just more offended that you took the time to look at my username in order to talk to me in a condescending way yet you still spelled my name wrong multiple times

by Anonymous 11 years ago

***************** SPOILERS **********************commenting 1 year later whooo.... Everyone who has posted here seems so young to me. Especially those that thought Katniss should end-up with Gale. Thing is something like the Hunger Games. A strife, a huge ordeal and the suffering behind it brings people together. This is even mentioned in the book Catching Fire (how the victors were all close friends). Its plainly obvious throughout the whole book that she needs Peeta. Although definetly doesn't deserve him. Let me get this point across right now, Mockingjay was awful. As for Gale not going to Katniss' side at the end of MJ. It's not easy to be with someone so disheveled like her. She's lost in her own mind. Not many end up with their high school sweethearts. Some do yes, but mostly don't. Why? people change, especially if they go through different things. As soon as it is revealed that Peeta is being tortured I knew Katniss was going to end up with him or end up dead, even more so when Prim dies. At that point they are both lunatics. Through the whole series Collins hints at the ending with Peeta and never with Gale, even when they share some momments. Teens love Love-Triangles.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

When I worded the post I could have emphasized the love triangle less, but my main point is that Collins did a pretty horrible job.. The whole thing is very choppy, the character development is completely lost, and the ending is very out of character. Gale would not have left without a fight, and Katniss- who has witnessed all the bad the world has to offer and is mentally damaged from what she's experienced (including the loss of her sister, someone she valued as if it were her own child), would never have agreed to have children or even marry ANYBODY. Also, basically everyone died but there was no real purpose towards it other than to establish 'war heroes'. In novels like Harry Potter the deaths were constructive. The Marauders had to die to represent Harry's loss of innocence and childhood, illustrating that he no longer had parents or mentors to guide him. Finnick O'Dair died so that Collins could have some-shock value. There is nothing constructive about his death other than the fact that he left behind a wife and child. Prim's death defeats the entire purpose of the novels- Katniss volunteered to protect Prim and kept fighting to protect children like her (part 1/2)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Part (2/2) so then how is it constructive for Katniss' main motivation to die? It's not. In terms of the love triangle, I'm not saying Peeta and Katniss are wrong for each other and that I'm "TEAM GALE!!11". I'm saying that it's totally out of character for Katniss to have dismissed her best friend, the boy who protected her family, without so much as a real goodbye. It's also out of character that Katniss would leave the revolution with a sound enough mind to even agree to marrying and having children with Peeta. You said yourself that the games and the revolution were traumatic experiences. Most people who come out of that are so far gone that they can't function in regular society. How is it Katniss is totally able to function like a regular stay at home mother and wife when prior to that she had to experience oppression, poverty, murder, violence, and the death and destruction of everything she loved?

by Anonymous 11 years ago