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Book Review: The Hunger Games – MockingJay

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Lets finish this trilogy

Checkout my Review of Hunger Games  https://ragglefragglereviews.com/2018/01/23/book-review-the-hunger-games-by-suzanne-collins/

Checkout my Review of Catching Fire  https://ragglefragglereviews.com/2020/05/11/book-review-the-hunger-games-catching-fire/

The Hunger Games – MockingJay was written by author Suzanne Collins as the final chapter in the story of the heroine Katniss Everdeen in her quest to destroy the Capital and shut down the Hunger Games. The book was released in 2010.

Katniss and her family are slowly adjusting to life in district 13, The district has been turned into a hidden headquarters for survivors of the Hunger Games and members of the rebellion which wants to help tear down the capital scum who have imprisoned other survivor’s of the games including close friend and love interest to Katniss Peeta, unfortunately for Katniss Peeta’s imprisonment and torture is used as a weapon against her since the capital now realises that she is a serious threat to President Snow.

I loved this book, it might be my favourite entry in the series due to the fact that it really puts the stakes up for Katniss, the previous book did as well this but now that Peeta is captured and tortured, it makes her even angrier towards the capital. His mental health deteriorates so badly that he changes as a person. This causes Katniss to question her love for him which goes against what the capital expects, they start to panic and become more violent as the plot progresses.

In the previous books President Snow is really sinister and quite scary but I feel that is the first time he begins to show fear by stepping out of line with his threats, I don’t want to spoil too much but a great example of this is when he blows up a children’s hospital just to send a message to Katniss.

There are a lot of deaths in this and some of them are really upsetting, I honestly feel that Suzanne Collins handled the characters she kills off very well compared to some other authors who feel like they kill people off just for sake of it without it having much narrative on the protagonist or the story.

Definitely a great ending to what is a fantastic trilogy of books, I would highly recommend reading these but I think you should consider how violent they are when deciding if your little ones are old enough to enjoy these stories themselves.

With that I am done with the Hunger Games books, I might discuss the movies one day but for now I am just happy that I managed review all three books.

I hope you enjoyed this review of The Hunger Games: MockingJay by Suzanne Collins

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Book Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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The Hunger Games is the first in a trilogy of rather gruesome books written for Young Adults, the book takes place in North America however it is now a large city called Panem, Panem has twelve districts within its borders and each district is controlled by the Capital, the districts are all slightly different for example one district may focus heavily on coal mining while another may focus more on harvesting crops, these districts tend to be filled with lower and middle class citizens while the upper class who can afford a life of luxury live in the Capitol.

The Capitol holds an event every year called the Hunger Games and during the event two tributes one boy and one girl from each district are chosen at random to take part in a  live event where they will fight to the death in order for both them and their families to be able to live a better lifestyle by moving out of the district and into the Capital.

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The main protagonist of the series is Katniss Everdeen a 16 year old girl from District 12, Katniss lost her father in a coal mining accident and due to her mother being very sick has too put all of the food on the table and takes care of both her mother and little sister Prim, The first Hunger Games book is a thrill ride from beginning to end, in my opinion it only gets really good once the actual Hunger Games begin, its during the games that you get to see the strengths and weaknesses of each character although the book mostly follows Katniss on her journey, the book is a lot better than the movie in my opinion as I felt that the characters were better presented here and also certain events were better written than they were portrayed in the film.

The Hunger Games is emotional, tragic and intense all the way through and its bound to keep you interested, at some points I got so lost in the book that time would just fly by without me realising, its one of the best books I’ve read in a long time and it is a great start to my Reading schedule for 2018