A short book review: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

If you haven't yet read this trilogy then please check out my reviews for the first two books:
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire


My summary:
I've decided not to write a summary for Mockingjay just in case there's actually more people out there that haven't read the book. I wouldn't want to spoil too much for anyone.

My thoughts:

Yes, I cried when I read this last installment of The Hunger Games trilogy! I enjoyed it but I didn't love it, mainly because of the main focus in this novel. I don't think any of the sequels quite lived up to the first installment. To me it seems like a great many authors out there could benefit from spending some more time on their sequels to further improve the quality, I get the feeling that sometimes they're under an immense pressure to create a finished product.
It was a nice conclusion to the trilogy but it lacked that little extra and the epilogue just felt like a kind of cheap shortcut..Sounds like I didn't enjoy it? Well I truly did but it just wasn't how I wanted it to be.

The cover:
Is just wonderful and fits the covers on the rest of the trilogy.

My rating of this book:

4 stars out of 5

Want a second opinion? Check out these reviews written by some of my book blogging friends:
YA Vampire Books
Today's Adventure
Parajunkee's View
Rihannon Hart
Persnickety Snark
The Book Nerd Club

Want to know more?
Add Mockingjay to your Goodreads wish list.
Visit Suzanne Collins' homepage.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Published: August 2010
Pages(paperback): 398
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 0439023513 (ISBN13: 9780439023511)
Full disclosure: Purchased 

This book can be purchased from a number of local retailers and on-line book stores such as Amazon or The Book Depository (I'm not an affiliate of either). The latter store does by the way have free shipping to about 100 countries.

Check out this amazing new Hunger Games trailer!

While we're waiting for Suzanne Collins novel the Hunger Games being made into a movie why not check out this fan made trailer? I would never have guessed that this was a fan, the quality is excellent. I might warn you there is violence and blood in this trailer.

I cried and cried while watching this just like I did when reading this scene in the book.

I discovered this trailer over at Liyana's blog Liyanaland.

Suzanne Collins reads from the first chapter of MOCKINGJAY

Have you heard Suzanne Collins read from the first chapter of Mockingjay? If not check out the clip below

Book review: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air. My muscles are clenched tight against the cold. If a pack of wild dogs were to appear at this moment, the odds of scaling a tree before they attacked are not in my favor.

 
If you haven't been living under a rock the last year or so I bet you have at least heard of Suzanne Collins Hunger Games trilogy(most probably you've read the first two books). If you are one of the few that still haven't read The Hunger Games then you should consider giving it a try, even if you might think this book isn't for you do try it! Feel free to read my Hunger Games review.

***Spoiler alert***

Short about this book?
Katniss and Peeta are back in District 12. There are signs that the people in Panems districts are feed up with The Capitol. But don't you worry, the Capitol knows just the perfect punishment for those trying to create an uproar. What better way to frighten the people into obedience than the celebration of the 75th Hunger Games?

The one thing Katniss never in a million years would have thought possible happens and she is faced with some extremely difficult dilemmas.


My thoughts on Catching Fire:I was surprised when I found out what Suzanne Collins had in store next for Katniss and Peeta! I never saw it coming, and I weren't the only one.

Catching Fire is an entertaining read but in my opinion not as good as The Hunger Games. Collins introducedes the reades to a couple of new, really great characters. Almost throughout the entire book you wonder if the characters are friends or foes, can they be trusted? I'm guessing at least one of them will have a major part in Mockingjay! I will have to pre-order a copy, of that I'm sure. What will happen to the citizens of Panem?!


My rating of this book:
4 stars out of 5 stars. 

Want to know more?
Visit Suzanne Collins  homepage.



Pages(hardcover): 400
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 978-0439023498
Source: Purchased

This book can be purchased from(I'm not an affiliate):
Amazon


Want another opinion on this book? Check out the reviews written by some of my book blogging friends below:  

• Linus's Blanket: Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
• Persnickety Snark: Review - Catching Fire
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  Angieville: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 
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  Presenting Lenore: Book Review: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
     

Book review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Synopsis:

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.

This book has swept over the blogging community and I'm sure most of you already have read about it on several blogs, still I have to write a few words about The Hunger Games. Some of you might find the synopsis slightly boring, but I promise you that this book is no way near boring. I must admit that I might never have given this book a change if it weren't for a blog review stating that I would miss out on something if I didn't read this book. Well I couldn't let that happen, could I?

The Hunger Games fitted perfectly as a part of my 2009 Young Adult Challenge, so I decided to give it a chance. I was a bit worried that this book would be horrible, 24 kids killing each other off sounds a bit horrible to me. Maybe especially since I am a mother myself, and every normal parents would want to protect their children from any harm. In this book the parents can only watch their children being chosen to participate in this collective punishment, as to remind everyone of who's in charge of Panem. I pray that reality-tv never ever goes this far!

Suzanne Collins has manged to create a great fictional story that not only contains crulty but is a story about familyties, love, kindness and friendship. What an amazing read this was! The suspense in this book is neverending, a real page turner. The best book I have read so far this year. I'm really looking forward to read book two in this trilogy, Catching Fire, it'll be released in September. Catching Fire can be preordred at Amazon.



My rating of this book:
4.5/5

Oh, I nearly forgot but this book is on the planning stage for filmadaption and the release date will be sometime in 2011!

If you have reviewed this book let me know and I'll post a link to your review below.
Want another opinion on this book? Check out these reviews below:

• Booking Mama - Review: The Hunger Games
• NotNessie - Review: The Hunger Games
• Carol(ina) - The Hunger Games
  

About the author:
Suzanne Collins lives in Connecticut with her family.

Her career began in 1991 as a writer for children's television shows, she worked on several shows on Nickelodeon.

Collins met an author of children's books which inspired her to write children's books herself. She wrote a series for children called The Underland Chronicles, inspiration for the series she got from the fairytale Alice in Wonderland.

Read more about Suzanne Collins and her books on her homepage.