Mockingjay by Suzanne CollinsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
With around 30 pages to go, Captain America told me it was time to get ready for bed. I said, "I'm reading THIS book," and he asked if I was going to cry. I said, probably not. Boy, was I wrong.
I'm a crier when it comes to books. Sometimes it's just a few tears. This time it was full on sobs. I haven't cried like that since Dobby died. And it wasn't even over someone dead; it was over a friendship that could not be made whole.
Having taken a few hours to calm down, sleep, and then discuss the series with a friend who also loved them, I have concluded that Hunger Games was the best book in the series, and that while I did enjoy them, the pacing was strange in the last two. Sometimes months would go by very quickly and without much explanation, and sometimes several chapters would span just one or two days. And a lot of events become totally chaotic in the last half of this book. Not it an I-can't-follow-this sort of way, but more like, what-is-going-on!?!?!
To me, one of the most truthful, real moments in the book is when Katniss loses her mind and thinks she can yell at dead people.
Overall, the book is worth the three days it will take you to read it.
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Great series that Jeffrey (12) started to read this summer and was rapidly picked up by his mother, sister, brothers, and then dad. And I'm glad he started reading them ;) I agree with you on the pacing within the last two books. It was almost like the author had to achieve certain milestones in the story and then was limited by the number of pages..."Great book....just cut it by 300 pages and we're good to print! - editor"
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