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Mockingjay
Book 3 of The Hunger Games
- 424 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2010
- 98 editions
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1 About this book
After the events of Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen is living underground in District 13, the headquarters of the rebellion against the Capitol, among refugees from her own ruined district. The rebel leaders want her to become the Mockingjay, the face of their uprising, in a war fought as much with broadcast propaganda as with weapons. Katniss agrees reluctantly, while fearing for those the Capitol still holds and doubting some of the people she is fighting for. Mockingjay, published in 2010, is the last book of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy.
- Science fiction
- Survival
- Survival skills
- Survival Stories
- Dystopian fiction
- Adventure
- Courage
- Young Adult
2 What to expect
The last book of the Hunger Games trilogy turns from the arena to open war, with Katniss as the reluctant symbol of the rebellion. It is the darkest of the three: propaganda, the moral cost of fighting, trauma and loss are its subjects, and neither side comes out clean. The pace is uneven, with slow, inward stretches between bursts of combat, and it should be read after the first two books.
Good for readers who want: the final chapter of the Hunger Games, war and its costs, and a dark, emotional read.
3 About Suzanne Collins
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Suzanne Collins
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