1155 pages
English language
Published May 11, 2010
Mockingjay is a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series, following 2008's The Hunger Games and 2009's Catching Fire. The book continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, who agrees to unify the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol. The hardcover and audiobook editions of Mockingjay were published by Scholastic on August 24, 2010, six days after the ebook edition went on sale. The book sold 450,000 copies in the first week of release, exceeding the publisher's expectations. It received a generally positive reaction from critics. The book has been adapted into a two-part movie, with the first part released on November 21, 2014, and the second part released on November 20, 2015.
This book gets an extra star for being darker than I expected. I appreciated the moral and emotional ambiguity, even if the characters were kind of annoying, and the plot was a little weak. I also liked how the actions of the main character through a large portion of the book don't really matter. The war doesn't turn on a last-ditch mission.
