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Thank you azuarc for those detailed posts. Only thing I outright disagree with is that I believe Catching Fire is easily the strongest book in the trilogy.

As for Mockingjay, I knew something was wrong about 50 pages in. It didn't have the inspired feel of the first two books. You hit it on the head with the comment about how the Games only appear symbolically in Mockingjay, and that hurt the book the most IMO. Mockingjay felt like a generic sci-fi war thriller because it abandoned its unique concept and made no effort to replace it with something creative. It'd be like if Indiana Jones 3 cut out the archaeology and left it purely as an action film about punching Nazis.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

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.

Didn't know this, but you're 100% right. "Never rush an artist."

I'd actually forgotten that Prim died. Like... it was THAT forgettable. It was THAT pointless.

It isn't setup properly and therefore has considerably less impact than it should. There could've been a scenario where Katniss tried to save Prim, then Prim sacrificed herself to save Katniss, and that might've had the emotional impact the story deserved. Instead Prim's character was utterly wasted.