Like many of you, I’ve finished Mockingjay–tearing through it at top speed, just as I did The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. Read the full post.
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I can’t believe of all the comments I have submitted THAT one shows up.
I run a book club of my own, and have been working on the questions for the past couple of hours. I happened to come across this site and glanced through the comments. Just wanted to give my brief opinion on the book. I just thought it would be nice to express my opinions without going into to much detail. I would go into greater detail, but it’s very late and I have work in the morning.
So…
I had a hard time with some of the items in this book. I absolutely love The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, adored Katniss, but was having difficulty with Mockingjay. The closer and closer I read to the ending, the less I cared about the book.
There are several reason’s for this. To mention a few: I have a problem with the world view the author portrayed. Well, it was not the world view that bothered me, but the way the world view shifted from the first 2 books to the third. Book 3′s world view was unique/different, something I think should be consistent within any created universe/trilogy/series (some examples, Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Jeeves and Wooster etc etc).
I definitely liked Gale more than Peeta as a personal preference, but I wasn’t surprised by Katniss’ decision at the end. I figured out at the end of Catching Fire that the author was going to choose Peeta. I didn’t determine it from “A what would be best for Katniss” or “Who does Katniss love” stance, but “who do I think the author will choose.” And was I on the money
I noticed some of the previous forum comments state Peeta’s calmness/gentleness was the best for Katniss and what she needed. This it is good Katniss and Peeta wound up together. This is a very interesting comparison to Gale’s comment (and Peeta’s non-objection too) that “Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without” (p. 329) and not, necessarily, ‘who she loved.’ I have to honestly consider this quote being an accurate description of Katniss. For many reasons, I doubt Katniss truly loved Peeta. I doubt she truly loved Gale too.
I would love stay and explain my comments more, but it’s after midnight. I’ve read the Mockingjay book twice in 10 days and spent hours developing the perfect questions. I just needed an outlet as the actual club meeting won’t be for another week!!!
What the hell kind of ending is that! I am more pissed off she chooses Peeta. Everything else was great until she chose Peeta. She belongs with Gale! That and the book had to many loose ends. Johanna, Gale, her mother,and Haymitch.
Oh yeah. I commented on this site once.
LOL A58
I have this joke: If, once I get to the end of a book, I say “What the heck was that!?!” it means it wasn’t a good ending. I say out that loud for every lousy ending. I don’t even think about it. It just comes out.
I think I have the Peeta/Katniss thing figured out.
Like I said before, I don’t believe Katniss loves Peeta, don’t believe Katniss loves Gale, don’t believe Peeta loves Gale (LOL), and I sure as heck don’t understand why Peeta loves Katniss. But I’ve finally figured out why Peeta likes Katniss. You know the saying “We marry out parents”? Well, Peeta’s father was a kind, gentle spirit and Peeta’s mother was a witch, mean, cruel, selfish, hits her children.
Father/Mother vs Peeta/Katniss Hmm?
Poor Peeta. He is a victim of psychology.
A ver .que puedo decir este chico muy mono y todo pero en definitiva no es Peeta nsteeico un chico de rizos y ademe1s Peeta es fornido carga sacos de harina!!!, ased que sin animo de ofender para mi no
I disagree that Katniss’ attitude at the end of the book was quiet resignation. Her decision to have children and build a life with Peeta indicates a willingness to embrace hope and happiness despite everything she’s been through.
I didn’t like Katniss ending up with Peeta. In the first 2 books, Peeta just annoyed me. He was just to nice and very clingy. He’s actually a very unrealistic character. There’s no way someone would already be in love with somebody after talking to her for like 5 minutes. And then to have this constant need for protecting her when she’s rather mean to him. It’s just unrealistic so I was glad when he got the tracker jacker venom and saw Katniss as a normal person for once. I’m a little scared for Katniss in the epilogue when it says Peeta still gets those flashbacks because who knows when he’ll lash out and kill her again.
Katniss blacked out whenever something exciting happened in the war. Halfway through the book I just wanted the point of view to change so we could actually see what was going on in the war. Instead, we missed everything and then Katniss heard about it later.
FINNICK!!
He had the anticlimatic death ever. It was such a “wait did I just read that?!” moment. I think his death warranted more than like 3 sentences.
anyways this is getting really long but I wish we had learned more about what happened in the end. It was so rushed! How is the new government running, where did Johanna go etc. Then Gale just left without any conversation after all him and Katniss has been through. Like at least say goodbye? that was weird. It wasn’t a very satisfying ending.
At first I didn’t like the book too much. Immediately I noticed the similarities between the Capital and District 13, which was depressing. Then there was Gale and his acceptance of doing things that were wrong to win the war, then there was Katniss killing an innocent woman, Peeta being destroyed, the brutality of war in general, Coin killing Prim (that really got me – I had to read it twice before I believed it) and then of course Katniss and the others okaying the Hunger Games for the Capital kids.
It was all too real for me to truly enjoy and I was so grateful for the happy ending and her choosing Peeta (hope). But now that I know that was her (Collins) intention I know that my thinking it was too much like the real world was exactly what I was supposed to feel and it makes me like the book more. But for my own personal well being it would be nice if Collins could publish some original drafts of a longer more drawn out happy ending. Just so I can stop being so depressed.
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Hunger Games, Mockingjay, Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird…those would all be choices among mine as well. And I got some great recs from this post. Thanks!
CANNOT wait for The Hunger Games. I cried every time I’ve watched the tralier, and that’s been like a min of 20 times.I’m looking forward bookwise for Plague by Michael Grant, the latest in his Gone series, which I love so much.Also looking forward to the second Divergent book.and can’t wait to see The Hobbit in 2012. Watched the tralier today like 5 times so far.
That is EXACTLY how I imagined Peeta! I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a chetcarar that fit my mental image of them so well. I never got a solid image of Gale, but this fits what little I could see. I guess Collins did a better job describing them than I realized.