Finally! Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins :)

I finally got the Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins, the day it came out when I woke up. I started reading at night and stayed up until six a.m. reading it when I finally finished! This book was practically genius- it was everything I expected but yet, nothing I expected. So many twists and turns, so many tears of sadness and joy, and so many parts that just touched your heart. I waited, along with a few friends who are avid readers, for approximately a year for this book. It was soo worth it! This book ends with a bittersweet ending, making you think "Wow, this book was worth reading." It makes you think at the end and separate lies from the truth. The tale that had me gripping my chair from the Hunger Games, continued in Catching Fire, and ended in Mockingjay, left me breathless. So many unexpected twists, so many sudden deaths that I was so shocked I actually gasped a couple of times. This is one of the few books that actually made me cry. The ending is the most genius way to end it, and the author is certainly talented. She ties in strands left in from the previous books and uses small conversations from the previous and adds to them to make you touch your heart and start to cry. This book was by far, the best book I have EVER read in my life. I keep going back to the book now, reading the last couple of chapters to relive the feeling of adrenaline that coursed through MY own veins, knowing that the end was coming soon. Wow. This book is just Wow. If I had had to wait another year for this book, I think it would still be worth it when I finally got to read it. This book will keep you up late at night, and you won't be able to sleep after you finish, thinking about how much happened and how much has changed since the first book. It leaves you with a lot of questions and the ending isn't perfect- but the main point of the series wasn't  so that you could be happy at the end. It was so that you could see what happened after a war. This book made me think so much after I finished. I just couldn't figure out if the end was happy or sad. In a way, it was bittersweet. But now that I think about it, it was more depressing than it seems at first. It's not all that happy the second time you read the epilogue and realize what exactly is being said  and thought. Without giving any spoilers, this book is simply amazing.  If you haven't started reading this series, go on and pick it up! Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor. 


EDIT: Now that it's officially been a day since I finished, I'm beginning to realize that I was wrong about the book. After the craze for the book died down, I began to go back for the whys? formed and other conclusions. I realize now that I hated this book. And because I hated this book- I loved it. I know that's contradicting, but listen.  It's like getting stabbed in the chest with a fork, sorta. It hurts so badly, but it's a hurt you've never felt before. It's new. It hurt me so much that I loved it.  The epilogue was not as fulfilling as I thought it was at first, because now I see a very depressing note in it. I'm not saying what because I don't want to give away spoilers, but I caught in the third time i read the short one page epilogue. This books is so dark and depressing, that I loved it with all my heart.  It left me with a hollow feeling, as if somehow that wasn't how it was supposed to end. This book was simply amazing, yet one of the worst books I have ever read due to the depressing atmosphere of the whole book. It was so different than the first two in the series. I think Suzanne Collins kind of used one of Gale's( from the hunger games) animal catching traps here. She lured us in with the Hunger Games, We followed in Catching Fire, and then she snapped the trap shut, killing us, in Mockingjay. I have too many mixed opinions about this book after pondering about it for a while. It's not all that happy when you think about what actually happened, but it was worth the wait. Suzanne Collins, you have given me what I was waiting for.

~Rmaah :)