Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - Reviewed by Jamie Turner Patry

My  independent novel study book is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. It is a fiction book. 

This book is the final book in the Hunger Games series, and it’s about 17 year old Katniss Everdeen and it is set in Panem, a country in the future. After surviving the Hunger Games (a fight to the death featuring young children) twice, Katniss must realize that she is the face of the rebellion against the notorious President Coriolanus Snow, and she will do whatever it takes to kill him.

After being pulled up on a hovercraft (a high-tech airplane) from the 75 Hunger Games, Katniss is brought to district 13, which was presumed to be destroyed by the Capitol (the Capitol is the leader of all of the districts, and all of the children in the Capitol do not participate in the Hunger Games, but instead they watch in enjoyment). It is hidden underground, and they have been waiting forever to avenge what the Capitol did to them. While they were pulling up the rebels from the arena (where the Hunger Games is held), they were able to pull out Finnick Odair, the Capitol’s favorite man, Betee Latier, the genius and Katniss. They left behind Johanna Mason, the fighter, and Peeta Melark, Katniss’s lover and the kind one, as Katniss says in the book. Johanna and Peeta were brought to the Capitol and are presumed dead and It is all that Katniss can think about. 

One day, she sees Peeta on the Capitol’s T.V, and because of that, she agrees to be the Mockingjay, (the face of the rebellion) under the terms that they will rescue Peeta and Johanna. Through the book, Katniss ventures to various districts trying to start the rebellion, and every time she looks at the T.V, she sees Peeta getting worse and worse. Finally, 13 rescues the tributes in the Capitol. Katniss is overjoyed to find Peeta again, but just before she can hug him, he grabs her throat and attempts to kill her. They tell her that he has been hijacked, a form of torture and he thinks that Katniss is a demon. They try to bring him back to what he was before, but nothing is working. Katniss then goes to join the Star Squad, a army group and she is going out to kill Snow in the Capitol. This group includes Gale, her best friend, Finnick, and later on, Peeta. 

While in the Capitol, Katniss sees many friends die. Finnick, being killed by lizard/humans and her sister Prim, being blown to bits. In the end, Snow dies, Peeta gets better and Katniss and him live their lives in happiness. 

I would recommend this book because it is filled with suspense, romance and comedy. It is a fun book and you get to love all the characters, just for most of them to die.​