Well I figured I should write someone or else I would end up stop blogging altogether. So this post is going to be about Mockingjay the 3rd book in the Hunger Games! Amazing series, not so amazing last book. The first two books in the trilogy were AMAZING, they had me raving about them to anyone that would listen. They were packed to the binding with suspense, action, drama, comedy, and of course the perfect dose of romance. My fellow Hunger-fans and I sat patiently for months eagerly awaiting the release of the final installment in this thrilling series, Mockingjay. At last the time came, and on August 24 it was released!!! I had pre-ordered it months ago on Amazon and I made my mom pick up the package and bring it to me at work as soon as it arrived. I tore open the box squealing in delight as I saw the first glint of that beautiful blue cover peek out of the wrappings. I spent the next 2 hours blowing off my work and just read. I read and read and read, waiting for the same feeling of action-packed suspense that I got from the last two books to hit me, I waited until the very last page. But alas, it never came. When I at last finished the Epilogue (later that same day) there was a feeling of disappointment and anguish lurking in the depths of my heart. Where did all that excitement go? There wasn't even an epic face-off between Gale and Peeta over who would become Katniss's one and only true love. Only the two of them fidgeting and waiting for her to choose one of them while they tried not to kill each other out of jealousy, throughout the entire book. Collins had SO MANY opportunities to create an epic tragic-romantic scene that would end everything, Panem and the Katniss-Gale-Peeta love triangle. We all wanted it, we all waited for it, but we never got it.
I admit I am being a little over-the-top harsh with this review, it takes a lot, and I mean A LOT to impress me with a book. But I thought after everything the last two books were, this one would at least live up to the same expectations. It was a good book, not great and not exactly worth being the conclusion to one of the best trilogy's I have ever read and loved, but it was adequate enough to get part of the job done. At least in the end Katniss does end up with (WARNING: If you haven't read it and you intend to, stop reading here! Spoiler alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Peeta. <3
