Title: Mockingjay (3rd book in trilogy of The Hunger Games)
Author: Suzanne Collins
Genre: YA, Sci-Fi/Dystopia, Fantasy, Romance
Publish Date: August 24, 2010
Summary: Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
Review: “I AM THE MOCKINGJAY!” Katniss yells into the television camera. She has survived and President Snow is beyond angry. He wants her blood and he wants is yesterday! After escaping the Quarter Quell in the dare-devil stunt pulled off by District 13, Katniss recovers and realizes Peeta has been captured by the Capital. During her recovery and training at District 13, she realizes how much of their lives are a lie and how much she REALLY wants to take down the Capital. Since wearing the mockingjay pin during her first Hunger Games show down, Katniss as since taken on the Mockingjay identity. Haymitch is still by her side, and somewhat sobered up. He helps her become and believe she IS the Mockingjay. She is the symbol for the rebellion. She is the one who will help those stand up against the Capital once and for all.
Peeta is rescued from being captured and is reunited with Katniss. But all is not well with Peeta…
Katniss and the team from District 13 set out on a mission: Take down the Capital. Katniss wants President Snow dead and only SHE will take him down! During their fight through Panem to get to the capital they run into new, deadly ‘games’ the president has put into place for her. Katniss must fight or flight.
With a bombshell ending that will have you picking your mouth up off the floor Mockingjay is a sure fire ending to a GREAT trilogy!
