"Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

[Tenley Nadine]

Blurbing book club book from August 27th, 2010 - September 30th. 

Here's a few things you should probably do:

1. Read the book (obviously).

2. Come back to this forum and leave your thoughts about the book. You can write a sentence, you can write an essay, it doesn't matter, whatever you want.

3. Blurb the book.
Some of you may not know what a blurb is so allow me to explain: A blurb is a sentence of 10 words or less, that sums up the book in question. If you want an example, look on the back (occasionally the front) of some books lying around your house. Those are blurbs.

Keep in mind that you can also compose lol-cat blurbs if you'd like (the same thing but with internet slang).

[Erin Shay]

Okay so everyone was talking about the Hunger games and I picked it up not knowing what to think an BAM! I'm hoooked. This book was so sad I can't believe how many times I cried. Finnick and Prim just killed me. Finnick's death kind of reminded me of Remus because they both had just gotten married and so on and so forth. I really was so happy when he and Anne finally reunited, but I should have seen something like this coming.

Now I loved the book but I felt like the last few chapters were rushed. i wish they would have went more in depth of the rebuilding of the government, Peeta's mental healing, Katniss struggle to get back to a normal life. You saw a little bit of it but not to much. Her whole time in the hospital at the end confused the heck out of me, but after a few readings I understood it a bit better.

Okay so I supported the whole Peeta/Katniss relationship since the bread story, I mean come on that was just ugh melted my romantic heart. So finding out what happened to Peeta killed me and I"m glad we got to see how it affected Katniss because it was then we got to see her real feelings for him though it was STILL encrypted which bugged the heck out of me. Maybe it was just me that was hoping for the moment when Katniss realized she truly loved him and not Gale but that was just me.

Over all I loved the book I think some parts were rushed others were drawn out. But I still loved it and sad that the series is over with. I only wish we got a little bit more Peeta/Katniss time and a bit more on what happened between the last chapter and the epilogue

But now here comes the big debate about

[Sarahthehorsemadgirl]

love love love

I always prefered Gale, just because i think Peeta overdid the whole 'in love with Katniss" thing, he didnt show a side of him that was rational or grounded enough for me, but I didnt like his attitude about blowing up the mountain. I loved Finnick, he was the most funny and entertaining character in the book. I like Katniss, she did well with what she had to cope with and was caring and vivacious. I didnt like that she voted yes to hold the Hunger games again tho. I had conflict about both Gale and Katniss as a whole, but i think that makes them more real as people are also multi sided and complex.

I enjoyed the series immensely, the ending was a bit sappy but one the whole the ending was good.