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Mockingjay

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Overall Rating: 3.35 out of 5 stars
Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins
Scholastic, 2010
Fantasy
ISBN: 0439023513
400 pages

Synopsis

Young Katniss Everdeen has survived the dreaded Hunger Games not once, but twice, but even now she can find no relief. In fact, the dangers seem to be escalating: President Snow has declared an all-out war on Katniss, her family, her friends, and all the oppressed people of District 12.

Critique

To be honest, I was disappointed in this final book. I feel like the first book was great, unparalleled in quality and story to anything else in the market. However, with each addition there is a stark decline. I believe this should have been a one-off rather than a series. I know that any publisher and often writer is tantalized by the dollars that can be made from a popular franchise, but I think there need to be books that stand alone. No one would make a sequel to Lord of the Flies or 1984 and expect them to be anywhere as good as the first. Not only that, but it would sully the originals.

The second book, Catching Fire, is decent, but not amazing, and this final chapter is not all that stellar at all. Not to spoil it for everyone, but lots of people die, most of the main characters, in fact, and the story doesn’t gain anything from it. It’s difficult to believe that Katniss is even on the sort of quest that she’s on, and it feels like Collins is simply trying to stretch out the story for the sake of creating a third book in a trilogy. The love triangle is boring and tired as a level of complexity for the plot, and it’s been played out for way too long. I definitely recommend the first book, and could go either way on the second, but don’t recommend this third book at all. Don’t bother reading it unless you need finality to the story.

Rating Rubric

Enjoyable Read: 3 out of 5 stars
Original Fantasy: 5 out of 5 stars
Original Plot: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Language: 3 out of 5 stars
Asthetics: 3 out of 5 stars
Depth In Characters: 3 out of 5 stars
Depth In Story: 3 out of 5 stars
Social Commentary: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Layers/Complexity: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Classroom Text: 3 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.35 out of 5 stars

For the Classroom

Although this isn’t directly applicable to any specific studies within a classroom setting, it’s a series that I recommend to all late middle school and high school students. If there’s a point where you are studying dystopian literature, this is a great example and something that the average teen reader may enjoy more than 1984.

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