Mockingjay — the conclusion of the series that started my nightly reading aloud habit

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Mockingjay concludes the Hunger Games and it is a fitting conclusion to such a strong opening.

There are real problems presented in this book. It has fighting in it, so it has that intensity from the first book, but it also introduces to us the problems of power and revolution.

Katniss meets people who live a disciplined and orderly life, almost contrary to nature. These rebels need Katniss and she needs them, but everything is confusing…not in how Collins wrote it, but in the reality of such a situation.

Obviously you have to read books one and two first.

The climax at the end is well done and my kids were left with some questions that we discussed.

I considered teaching the series in a developing writing class. Instead, I just refer to it in the hopes that at least my students have read these worthy books, since they usually haven’t read anything more complex.

I am a fan and my kids really got into it. I was surprised, actually, because I thought it would take forever to read so many hundreds of pages out loud to my kids. I am forever indebted for the Hunger Games’s making me adopt the habit of reading at night to my kids.

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