The Kari AnnAlysis

I’m at a loss for words after reading this book. I am hardly ever at a loss for words and I’m sure if my husband reads this, he will laugh at loud that as I am speaking about being at a loss for words, I am pecking away at the keyboard ferociously.

I am not going to give a summary for this book. If you want to read one, click here. It’s not my normal thing, but I’m having a hard time with this one.

I absolutely loved the first two books. There’s something about a dystopian that just pulls me in and gets the gears in my brain grinding. But in this book, I just didn’t feel it.

I found myself skimming a lot in this book. To me, it was much more political than the first two. The second got that way at the end, but didn’t override it. When I hear politics, my eyes glaze over. I know enough to make a vote that will count when an election comes, but to have a conversation about politics, *zzzz* sorry, I fell asleep.

I got this book the week that it came out, but put it off forever, as you can tell by the delay between my second and third review. There were two reasons for me to put off reading this book. 1, I didn’t want the series to end. Through all the death and destruction, I grew close to Katniss and didn’t want it to end. 2, I had heard from a number of other reviewers that it wasn’t what they had hoped for. The first two books left pretty big book jackets to fill. I normally try not to read reviews before I read the book. I’ll look at the number of stars or bookmarks or whatever given, but I normally don’t get in depth. With this book, it was hard to get away from it. Twitter was taken over with Mockingjay talk when it came out.

I think the main thing about this book that pushed me away was all the politicalness. My heart yearned for more Katniss and Gale. My heart broke for Peeta. My heart hated Snow and all the destruction he was causing. Obviously, my heart felt a lot in this book, but it was so overpowered with the government, it overshadowed the rest for me.

Now, I can’t ignore the fact that this book was so intelligent and creative. Collins has a fictional mind that any author would want. And as with the first two books, I caught myself asking, “How does she think of this?” From the underground world of 13 to the crazy pods that you never knew what would come out.

Mockingjay was just mehh for me. I give it 3 bookmarks.

ISBN: 978-0439023511
Published: August 24, 2010
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Kari got this book from Borders

1. Hunger Games
2. Catching Fire

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