Monday, February 20, 2012

Mockingjay

I have now completed the Hunger Games trilogy and I have to say, I'm glad it's over. This third book in the series takes us away from the arena of the games into a world at war. But the people making the war are the same people who made the games, so who better to know how to fight it than Katniss and the other remaining tributes?

After her dramatic rescue from the arena at the end of book two (and you definitely need to read the first two books to make sense of this one), Katniss finds herself in District 13, the district that supposedly was destroyed by the Capitol. There she finds an active group of rebels, including Haymitch and Gale, who need her as the symbol of the rebellion. But Katniss is so emotionally destroyed by her experiences in the games that she's not much interested in anything, let alone fighting a war, until something happens that changes her mind.

I don't want to give too much away. I will say that this book is hard - it's about war, and it's not pretty. Katniss learns the hard way that not all of the "good guys" are totally good, and that war makes good people do bad things.

Mockingjay

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