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Yep, Mockingjay is among the worst books I've ever had the displeasure of reading. I don't really fault Suzy Collins for having such a shit ending so much as I do Scholastic for egging her on to get the damn book finished so they could release it and make millions off of it. Creativity isn't something that happens overnight. That's why the turnaround time was so quick. That's why the book was so bad.

I'd actually forgotten that Prim died. Like... it was THAT forgettable. It was THAT pointless. And the whole insult on the capital (yes, I said "insult") was utter trash and didn't even go through a single revision. "She's going to marry whoever she can't survive without" was a dumb chapter cliffhanger that reinforced how garbage the romantic subplots were. And Katniss was starting to become unhinged because of the way those around her were manipulating and using her. There were many out-of-character moments and forced decisions that I can't help but think it was laziness. It showed to me that the series wasn't really all that good.

The first two were still pretty fun, but Mockingjay should never have existed as it was. It should have been a wholly different book that Collins was given proper time to write properly. Writers need to go at their own pace to deliver the best product. She wasn't allowed that, so she didn't care, and that's a failure on Scholastic as well as on her for not pushing back.