Mockingjay by Suzanna Collins

Synopsis:
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss' family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins' groundbreaking Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.

My Review:
(SPOILER ALERT!!! DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS)

So this was not my favorite book in the series but still really good. But I don’t want just a really good “Hunger Games” book, I want a great one!

I have been going around and around in my head as to why I feel so dissatisfied and this is the conclusion I have come to. The book ended without really ending. I have read other peoples’ reviews of this book both good and bad and some have voiced the same concerns I had once I finished. By no means did I want this to have a sappy, cheesy ending which I think would have disgraced the series and done no favors to the characters. This is not meant to be a happy series because there was too much loss of life for that to happen and death can take a toll on anyone. But I want some things answered:

-Why Katniss never confronted Gale or Peeta about what they said about which one of them she would pick in the end and why?
-What happened to Gale and did they just merely tolerate each other or did she ever see him again?
- How did Peeta finally get to a place where he did not think of killing Katniss every time a bad memory triggered?
-What did Katniss finally decide about being the Mockingjay and why did she never acknowledge the fact that she was also a piece in game between the Capital and the districts?

And the questions jeep coming but these are more like what I would like to have happen.

Why did Prim have to die? She could have ust being hurt to spur Katniss to kill Snow so Katniss could finish what she started by trying to protect Prim from the Capitol and the Hunger Games when she took her place during the reaping. I also wanted there to be a lot more dialogue between Peeta and Katniss in terms of the “Real or Not Real” scenario. I felt like Katniss gave up on Peeta when he never gave up on her. She made maybe three attempts to help him out of his hijacking phase but that was it. I expected more of her because I believe she was the only one that could bring bits and pieces of the real Peeta back.

I could go on but here is my point: It did not have to end this way and yet it did. I am seriously thinking of looking up some Fanfic or writing my own version of the ending just to satisfy my hunger at the end of this book (yea I know, cheesy pun intended). But the series had an impact on me unlike any other and changed the way I view the young adult genre and that in and of itself is satisfying and worth reading this series to me.