Mocking Jay

Suzanne Collins has done it again! Mocking Jay was a compelling, fast paced, and heartbreaking book. It was better than The Hunger Games and Catching Fire put together. The way Suzanne puts Katniss's pain in losing so many friends and loved ones is difficult. She makes it look so easy. Katniss's adventures never stop, the ending was a cliffhanger itself. By the end I start to cry, there are so many unanswered questions that I won't ask because it will ruin the book for those who haven't read it. The way one person can start a fire with one gesture in the arena in The Hunger Games is hard to wrap your head around but not impossible. I believe that Katniss's character alone will open the eyes of teens everywhere to the cruelty us humans are capable of. Rather she's fiction on sitting in our classrooms right next to us, the girl we know as Katniss; the girl we know to live through the cruelty of President Snow and being deceived so many times she can't separate the lies from the truth, is all around us, reading this book and realizing that human cruelty is always endless.
This page turner is heartbreaking, frightening, terrible even, and a book that is unable to put down. Even on my flight back from Hawaii I couldn't put it down, knowing that the presence of the book yelling "READ ME! READ ME!" is temptation enough. Knowing that Katniss's adventure will be stalled is just icing on the cake and I can't let go. Want to say so much more but that would be a total spoiler alert!