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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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This adventure should have ended long ago. The first book was awesome, the second book was okay (except for the nonsensical ending) and this third book was a plain silly waste of valuable reading time.
Apparently the concussion that Katniss suffered at the end of book two caused her to become a crazy person. Despite her inability to function in her new life and in her new district 13 home, she is relied upon, by the President no less, to head up the rebellion and save Panem. Her role is simply that of a figure-head model, with endless hair and make-up consultations, who is filmed doing fake brave stuff to spur on the real rebels. But when she is not the centre of attention, she is curled up in storage closets, making knots in a short piece of rope and drifting in and out of a morphling stupor. All the while, she is whining about how difficult her life is, lamenting the curse of having two lovers, and hurling insults and insensitive comments at anyone who tries to show patience and sympathy.
When she is out for her photo shoots, she is a loose cannon and predictably brings destruction and death to the districts she visits. She makes unrealistic demands on her superiors and is rebellious in an endangering way. She believes that everyone is conspiring against her, yet is surprised and hurt when no one trusts her judgment.
Collins wraps the whole trilogy up in a tidy little one-page epilogue, with all the unanswered, loose ends supposedly satisfied by (view spoiler). Blech.
The only positive side is that (view spoiler) can now pat himself on the back since he didn't boff the crazy chick.
Apparently the concussion that Katniss suffered at the end of book two caused her to become a crazy person. Despite her inability to function in her new life and in her new district 13 home, she is relied upon, by the President no less, to head up the rebellion and save Panem. Her role is simply that of a figure-head model, with endless hair and make-up consultations, who is filmed doing fake brave stuff to spur on the real rebels. But when she is not the centre of attention, she is curled up in storage closets, making knots in a short piece of rope and drifting in and out of a morphling stupor. All the while, she is whining about how difficult her life is, lamenting the curse of having two lovers, and hurling insults and insensitive comments at anyone who tries to show patience and sympathy.
When she is out for her photo shoots, she is a loose cannon and predictably brings destruction and death to the districts she visits. She makes unrealistic demands on her superiors and is rebellious in an endangering way. She believes that everyone is conspiring against her, yet is surprised and hurt when no one trusts her judgment.
Collins wraps the whole trilogy up in a tidy little one-page epilogue, with all the unanswered, loose ends supposedly satisfied by (view spoiler). Blech.
The only positive side is that (view spoiler) can now pat himself on the back since he didn't boff the crazy chick.
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