On the whole, Mockingjay takes a darker tone than the previous books. The political elements of the story deepen as well, and the rebel force and its leader aren’t quite the benevolent group Katniss had hoped they’d be. I thought it was clever the way the whole world sort of becomes an arena as Katniss and the rebel army advance toward the Capitol. I really wanted her to go on the mission to rescue Peeta (though I guess this would have made the book super long) instead of staying home feeling lost. I still enjoyed reading it, but I felt like Katniss remains a passive character for much of the beginning. This is my least favorite book in the Hunger Games series. She must become the rebels’ Mockingjay–no matter what the personal cost.

To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss’s willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem.

Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans–except Katniss. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Nearly 18,000 Kindle readers have highlighted the same line from the second book in the series: “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.” And on Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the first thing that most readers do upon finishing the first “Hunger Games” book is to download the next one.Published on AugAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy on the Kobo e-reader-about 57 pages an hour. By the time we get to Mockingjay most of us have a pretty hard time putting it down, so the question is, how long did it take you to read it? The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about e-books and the information they collect about readers’ reading habits and this little tid bit of information was revealed:

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