Asslamualaikum...Hi all......
WOw! it seems that I just cant stop with all the book review thing lol.... Well, when it comes to this book, i just cannnot NOT review it... it really has been awhile since I last felt this kind of adrenaline when it comes to reading a book.. You have this some of adrenaline wanting to not stop reading it because you are desperate to know WHAT HAPPENS NEXT???!! and then when you realize that you have been reading for quite awhile and only a few chapters left until it ends at that point you realize that you dont what everything to end.... you know how that feels? IT FEELS TERRIBLE!!...Because I LOVE this book SOOOOOO MUCHHHHH!!!... and that is how much I LOVEEEEEEEEEE it.....
::sobbing that the whole book has come to an end:: huhu...
Well lets go through the synopsis before I do the review on the book #3.. MOCKINGJAY....
Synopsis
As the novel opens, Katniss, Finnick & Beetee was saved by Haymich & Plutarch by a hovercraft from the 75th Hunger Game's arena. They and hundreds of other refugees and revolutionaries have been taken in by the citizens of District 13. While the other survivors from the 75th Hunger Game, Peeta, Johanna Mason & Enobaria was captured by The Capitol. The rumors were true, but District 13 is both more and less than anything she could have envisioned. While safety is a fluid concept in Katniss's experience, she is what passes for safe at the moment. Still, she is tortured by thoughts of Peeta, being held prisoner in the Capitol. And she is tortured by too many ghosts. We're introduced to a somewhat more fragile Katniss in this novel, and she is not the only character in a somewhat diminished state. The events unfolding around them, as well as those of the past few years, have taken a heavy toll. Both Johanna & Peeta was tortured by President Snow in order to get the details behind what the rebels have been planning. As a result, when the rebels managed to rescue Peeta and Johanna from The Capitol, both were tragically damaged mentally. Peeta was poisoned by tracker-jackers venom into thinking Katniss was a Mutt (Mutation) designed by Capitol to destroy district 12. So everytime he sees Katniss, he wanted to finish her. While Johanna was having Hydrophobia because while being captured by the capitol, they tortured her by trying to drown her.
As the book continues further, the rebels prepare for an invasion into the Capitol. It is in this preparatory segment that the past victors shine the brightest. Finnick and Johanna become of vital importance, Finnick in showing in the first half of the novel his love for Annie (and despondence at her capture along with Peeta), then later, after she is rescued and they are married, they become the Remus Lupin and Tonks (Harry Potter) of yet another trilogy. Every book has the couple who shows amid war and civil unrest the promise of happiness, and the best writers make us love them so dearly. Just as with Lupin, the ending, however, hurts. It is the kind of plot twist you cannot overlook--nobody, regardless of the side they take in a war, wants a child to grow up alone (which is, in my opinion, one of the most haunting moments in all of Harry Potter...seeing Harry's beginning echoed with the child of Remus and Tonks). Finnick will stay firmly in your memory after you close this book, and so will Johanna, but for an entirely different reason. She had the cell next to Peeta's in the Capitol, but unlike Peeta, who still cannot separate reality from fiction due to the venom, she remembers everything. She becomes a symbol of the Capitol's cruelty. Her strength and abrasiveness from Book 2 have been replaced with cowering at the sight of rain and an inability to bathe, due to the Capitol's technique of torturing her with water.
The final chapters will rip you apart. The deaths pile up, and we have to watch and feel with Katniss as the perils of war take their toll. Some deaths you cannot help but react-- we have grown to love some of these people so dearly-- but others, you may simply sigh or groan because it was yet another life that could not be avoided. While the battle between Presidents Coin and Snow heat up and the rebels and Capitol use increasingly underhanded tactics, Katniss simply attempts to keep her own ground force alive. It is reminiscent of the first two Hunger Games, and it takes her hunting skill combined with every ounce of her resourcefulness from years of starvation to preserve the lives of any in her unit. She still manages to keep a small amount alive, and she gets them to the Capitol lawn, intending to kill President Snow.
SPOILERS ALERT!!!!
The ending will hurt. I screamed as I visualized it- Prim, running across the lawn in full medic attire, one moment holding on the remainder of a fatally injured child, the next, being blown up herself. It was horrific. From that point, I could completely understand Katniss losing all will to live. She has lost the one thing she swore to protect, the only reason she ever entered the Hunger Games in the first place. The war has truly destroyed the most beautiful and innocent of things--Prim, who only wanted to be a doctor and help others.
On the day of President Snow's execution, Katniss kills President Coin with the arrow that was meant for Snow's execution. Katniss tries to commit suicide when the guards come for her, but Peeta stops her. When Katniss tells him to let go, Peeta says he can't. He implies later that he too went mad after Coin's death and that Aurelius, Katniss's mental doctor, was treating him too. He returns to District Twelve months after Katniss and Haymitch, where he plants several evening primroses along the house in honor of Katniss's dead sister, Prim. When she starts to write a book about their experiences during the Hunger Games, along with things she is unwilling to forget about it, Peeta and Haymitch join her. Peeta draws the victims if they were not able to find a picture of them. Peeta still has some "episodes" where the hijacking will try to take over again: he is mentioned clenching onto the back of a chair until it passed. Otherwise, he displays signs that he has returned to his former self. Katniss and Peeta slowly find each other again. Peeta comforts her when Katniss has nightmares. Katniss believes that she has finally found the once-lost feeling Peeta stirs inside of her, that she needs Peeta to survive because he symbolizes hope and rebirth rather than destruction (Gale). They play the game of Real or Not Real one more time: Peeta asks, "You love me, real or not real." Katniss answers, "Real."
In the epilogue, the pair are still togehter and have two children. Though it took fifteen years of convincing from Peeta, they have a girl with her mother's dark hair and her father's blue eyes, and a boy with his father's blond hair and his mother's gray eyes. Katniss feels hesitant to tell her children, but Peeta assures that it will be okay, because they have each other. So, one day, they will tell their children of the Hunger Games, share the book Haymitch, Peeta, and Katniss compiled together, explain Katniss' hysterical episodes during the night, and inform them of the graveyard they happily play above everyday. The graveyard is the burial site for the dead former-residents of District 12.
The Review
This was a brilliant conclusion to the trilogy. I can only compare it to "Harry Potter" - and that is extremely high praise, indeed.
When I first closed the book last night, I felt shattered, empty, and drained.
In this third book, right from the start Katniss was badly hurt... not really physically but more emotionally because of Peeta. we see how badly she wanted to protect the bread boy but she failed and even blame Haymich for not keeping his promise with her that they both would try to keep Peeta alive through out the game. The emotional roller coaster continues when the rebels managed to save Peeta from the Capitol and when Katniss was reaching for him the first thing he did was strangle her intending to kill. It was soo heart breaking not just for Katniss but also to the readers. I love how Suzanne Collins brilliantly just twist the plot and we readers didnt even see that coming. Especially not from Peeta.
And then there is Prim. The one person that Katniss loved sooo much dearly. Died... At first I cannot accept the fact that Primrose Everdeen dies in the final book. Why, oh why did Collins killed one of the main characters especially when Primrose was the sole reason as to why Katniss sacrifice herself into taking Prim's place in the 74th Hunger Game (Book #1). But then when I read how Katniss was miserable after that and how much she was affected by Prim's death, I knew that it was inevitable. It was another climax in the book.
So I think the ending was perfect, it's a bittersweet ending, in a way you are happy Katniss has the love of her life, but at the same time you realize that war scared her, and even though she's happy (she says so herself), she'll never forget what she went through, and the people she lost, so at the end of the book, there's no smile in your face, it's just another reminder that life is not perfect, there are ups and downs, and both define the way you live. So for the first time in my life, I enjoyed an epilogue, not only I enjoyed it, it was perfect.
A perfect ending for a great series.
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