Suzanne Collins: Mockingjay

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Mockingjay, the conclusion to The Hunger Games trilogy, will have fans racing through the book to reach its edgy, highly probable yet oh so unexpected, and utterly jaw-dropping conclusions. In the final, spell-binding novel, author Suzanne Collins doesn’t spare blood or gore—or creativity as she paints graphic images in the path of two-time Hunger Games survivor, Katniss Everdeen. Katniss has emerged from the 75th Annual (Quarter Quell) Hunger Games as the sole symbol of the Districts’ rebellion against the Capitol: the Mockingjay.
Flung into the underground, socialist District 13, Katniss is relieved, appalled, and bitter about the District’s existence. With Gale Hawthorne by her side and Peeta Mellark at the hands of the Capitol, Katniss is forced to weigh the motives and actions of those around her as she navigates her role as Mockingjay. District 13’s President Coin reunites Katniss with former Tributes and an assortment of Rebel leaders scraped together from the surviving Districts with carefully laid plans on how to gain the remaining Districts’ support and infiltrate the Capitol.
Katniss’ mom and her sister Prim seal their roles in District 13 as part of the medical team, and Hunger Games’ mentor Haymitch Abernathy is as unpredictable and insufferable as can be as he assumes a pivotal role in the Rebel’s schemes. Both Peeta and Gale hurt Katniss in terribly deep ways, leaving Katniss to decide once and for all if she ever really loved either of them. Katniss struggles to decipher the decisions of war and weighs what her future should hold if she manages to survive the multitude of gut-wrenching attacks she faces in her effort win the rebellion by storming the Capitol to capture and kill President Snow.
Expertly crafted twists and turns reveal more fantastical thinking than the previous two novels in the series, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. Moving at warp speed with game-changing events in every chapter, readers will race through Mockingjay to learn the fate of so many of their beloved characters, or to finally understand those whose motives and actions always left a question hanging in readers’ minds.
Collins tidily wraps up all of the loose ends with head-nodding certainty even though the trilogy’s startling conclusions are lobbed at readers from left field, leaving them completely shell-shocked at times. By the end of the trilogy, fans are left with a deeper and richer understanding of humanity and a “what would Katniss do?” mentality that’s hard to shake.

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Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire

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The games may be over, but the battle has just begun. Katniss Everdeen found out that the odds truly were in her favor in the daring conclusion of The Hunger Games.

In Catching Fire, Katniss assimilates herself into her new role as a victor of the Hunger Games. Content with the victor’s spoils that can now feed her family and chagrin that she’ll have to participate in a Victory Tour in the 11 defeated Districts of Panem and the Capitol, Katniss is completely unaware of the trouble she sparked with her final actions in the Hunger Games’ arena. Katniss quickly realizes that she has emerged as a symbol of rebellion when she receives a visit from the dastardly President Snow who cunningly threatens her with a fate far worse than death.

Katniss acquiesces to President Snow but continues to notice signs of unrest through her style team and among other Districts. Both Katniss and Peeta Mellark quickly realize if they don’t team up and play their cards right, innocent people will die as a result of their actions. A startling twist in the Quarter-Quell (75th annual) Hunger Games takes Katniss’ focus away from the unrest in the Districts and consumes her with a growing intensity to survive long enough to protect Peeta, Gale, and her family from the dictatorship that threatens all of their lives.

In Catching Fire, Katniss learns how Cinna’s intuition and Haymitch Abernathy’s uncouth actions are justified. While getting in touch with herself and just how grave Panem’s situation is, she decides how far she’ll go to right the injustices inflicted by the mighty Capitol. Peeta, and Katniss’ co-survivalist back in District 12, Gale Hawthorne, continue to pedal through the angst of weighing their emotions for Katniss against their stark reality.

With a possible insurrection mounting in the Districts, Katniss must decide whether to run or fight, whom to pull into her circle of trust, and just where and when the Capitol is watching her actions.

In the thrilling, fast-paced sequel to The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins expertly crafts another suspenseful story and weaves in a few bombshells that will have excited fans’ dropping their jaws as they navigate the twists and turns in Katniss’ world. Fans are finally given a glimpse into the truth about what lies in the ruins of District 13, something the Capitol has been trying to cover up since the first rebellion, and will finally realize the fate of District 12 and the people Katniss cares about most.

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Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games

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In Suzanne Collins’ riveting tale of life in North America after its destruction, a powerful Capitol emerges as residents of its twelve outlying Districts individually struggle to survive under its bleak rule. Living under the constant reminder that the Capitol obliterated District 13 when the people incited a rebellion decades before, 16-year old Katniss Everdeen quietly carves out a path of meager survival for herself, her younger sister, Prim, and their widowed mother under the Capitol’s strict regime.
Each year, the Capitol assembles its Gamemakers to create an elaborate arena filled with deadly trigger points and calls upon one girl and one boy from each of the twelve Districts to play in its nationally televised Hunger Games. On the Day of Reaping when 24 children are selected to fight to the death, Katniss is whisked away from her daily quest for survival alongside her friend Gale, and thrust into the elaborate Capital as she is prepared for the Hunger Games.
In this world of instant gratification and superficial people, Katniss contends with her drunken, disengaged mento
r, Haymitch, and wrestles with her feelings about her co-Tribute from District 12, Peeta Mellark. Growing up apart from Peeta in the same District, Katniss struggles to determine if Peeta is the boy who once showed her an act of kindness pivotal to her family’s survival, or if his actions are motivated to keep himself alive, as the Capital will allow only one Tribute to survive the Hunger Games’ treacherous arena.
In the days to come, Katniss must fend for her survival against the natural elements and the vicious Careers, who are Tributes who’ve trained for the Hunger Games their entire lives. Katniss meets a young Tribute whose likeness to Prim tears at her heartstrings and she continues to process what Peeta’s motives could be as the end draws near. Should she kill these two or be killed? If Katniss wins, her family will be handsomely taken care of and her District will receive the additional food it so desperately needs to survive.
Deep inside the Hunger Games, readers are treated to the witty, young mind of Katniss Everdeen, a survival-savvy girl who yearns to trust in a world that has shown her nothing of the sort.

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