The Hunger Games Trilogy: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

The Mocking Jay is a book about the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen who has now been in an event known as the Hunger Games twice in previous books, where two children from each of the twelve districts are taken as tributes to the capitol for a fight to the death.  However, after Katniss and her partner, Peeta Mellark, rebel against the capitol by not killing each other in the Hunger Games, the Capitol destroys their district.  In the third book Katniss is given the role of the Mocking Jay; a genetic mutation accidentally created by the Capitol, to rise up against the capitol and abolish the Hunger Games forever.  She lives in district thirteen in this particular book, which, in previous books, readers were told had been destroyed at the end of the last rebellion against the Capitol.

This book is set in the future which makes it interesting to know where the author thinks our world is going.  She implies that it is going back into a world of small civilizations run by a hierarchy.  I disagree with this.  I think our world will continue to thrive the way it has been.  I believe we will end wars and transform third world countries into first world countries.  I believe eventually, by the time this book is set in, we will have achieved world peace.I was wondering a lot about the Capitol at the end of the book.  For example, "Did the citizens of Panem fix the Capitol?" or "Did the Capitol end up getting used for anything?"  I also wonder who came into power at the end because Katniss kills all the people who are first to come into power after President Snow


I believe others should read this book. I don't believe it has a small target audience. Almost anyone from ten years old to fifty will enjoy this book. It captivates almost any reader to the point where they can't put the book down.