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A review by reads2cope
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
4.0
The end to the Hunger Games requires so much reading between the lines and analyzing of characters choices that I wish I could interview my teenage self about how I processed it all. As an adult reader, I now realize I should be giving Collins more credit than I already did to how I developed my love for reading.
There are no winners in these books, there are no “good guys.” Katniss is clearly traumatized and is almost beyond reach while being used and abused by the Capitol and the Rebels alike. I only wish we could have seen more of her relationship with Peeta be healed in the text rather than in a montage of sorts at the end. I wish she had gone to him in the hospitals and helped him as he would have done for her, but at the same time I can’t blame her for her distance.
The ending is beautiful and scary - it reminds me of the Lord of the Rings with the Scouring of the Shire and the heartbreaking eternal separation of the Fellowship. Except that at least in Middle Earth, Aragorn is posed to be a healing King and other lands receive full autonomy. In Panem, we get a real-world resolution: Katniss is exiled, and those who masterminded and executed the worst of the war crimes are given more power.
Rather than the Snow prequel (which I will read next, of course) I want to see District 12 rebuilt and a truly changed society in the rest of Panem.
There are no winners in these books, there are no “good guys.” Katniss is clearly traumatized and is almost beyond reach while being used and abused by the Capitol and the Rebels alike. I only wish we could have seen more of her relationship with Peeta be healed in the text rather than in a montage of sorts at the end. I wish she had gone to him in the hospitals and helped him as he would have done for her, but at the same time I can’t blame her for her distance.
The ending is beautiful and scary - it reminds me of the Lord of the Rings with the Scouring of the Shire and the heartbreaking eternal separation of the Fellowship. Except that at least in Middle Earth, Aragorn is posed to be a healing King and other lands receive full autonomy. In Panem, we get a real-world resolution: Katniss is exiled, and those who masterminded and executed the worst of the war crimes are given more power.
Rather than the Snow prequel (which I will read next, of course) I want to see District 12 rebuilt and a truly changed society in the rest of Panem.