Literary Musings & Legal Adventures

I loved Mockingjay, but thought it was a bit weaker than The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. 

At the end of Catching Fire, I found myself dying to find out what had happened and immediately plowed into reading Mockingjay (thank goodness I didn’t start reading until all 3 books were released, I don’t know what I would have done otherwise!). Mockingjay follows Katniss after the Quarter Quell, and ultimately through the rebellion by the Districts. While I still love Katniss as a character, I found her frustrating at times in this book; she (and the reader) spends a lot more time in her head, which was good for character development but at times slowed down the pace. Peeta has been one of my favorite characters throughout the series as well, and I found the path that his characters takes through the novel especially interesting. I don’t want to spoil it, so I won’t say more than that. The book is far more political than the first two but I actually found that I really liked that — it carried the message of the destruction of war very well, that it takes two to tango and that often the lines between good and evil start to blur.

All in all, I think Mockingjay was a fitting and wonderful ending to the Hunger Games series and I’m so glad I finally picked up these books. They’re definitely new favorites, and are going on the shelf for many future re-reads.