Now, i know that a lot of people have never even heard of it, but i swear, once you start you go black you can never go back... wait, wtf was that. Ahem. I mean, once you start reading you can never, and i emphasise NEVER, stop. It's that addictive, thrilling, full of suspense, action, terror, violence.. and yes, love. Damn love triangle in all the books these days. It's nothing like the stupid Twilight romance though. This... this is way more epic. The Hunger Games has been accused of being a Battle Royale rip-off (bunch of kids put in a situation where they have to kill each other, only one can emerge the winner, etc), but with Mockingjay now out, i doubt that the same comparisons will be made. It's more intense, definitely. Don't think twice about it, go get the Hunger Games book now, get started on that, by the end of Catching Fire, with its shocking cliffhanger at the end you're gonna want to read Mockingjay asap. Proof? Stephen King enjoyed it. That's good enough for me, hehe. So does Stephanie Meyer, but i just can't take her seriously as a writer. I just can't. :O
Anyway, reviews are out on Mockingjay, here they are
Los Angeles Times -- Where "The Hunger Games" set the stage for the unusual post-apocalyptic world in which Katniss [Everdeen] first rose up from her inconsequential and impoverished life as an ace archer to win fame as a killer with a heart (and to become an unpredictable antihero for the masses), and "Catching Fire" uses that same stage to prime the pump for a brewing rebellion, "Mockingjay" takes readers into new territories and an even more brutal and confusing world: one where it's unclear what sides the characters are on, one where presumed loyalties are repeatedly stood on their head.
USA Today -- Still torn between two boys who love her, [Katniss] has been cast as the symbol of resistance in a civil war where both sides air televised propaganda and play with reality. The tactics prompt Katniss and other combatants to repeatedly ask each other, "Real or not real?" But it's no game. ... The novel's biggest surprises are found elsewhere. Hope emerges from despair. Even in a dystopian future, there's a better future.
Entertainment Weekly -- Fans will be happy to hear that Mockingjay is every bit as complex and imaginative as Hunger Games and Catching Fire. Collins has kicked the brutal violence up a notch in an edge-of-your-seat plot that follows Katniss as she tries to fulfill her role, protect her mother and sister and, in the end, finally choose between her two greatest loves.
USA Today -- Still torn between two boys who love her, [Katniss] has been cast as the symbol of resistance in a civil war where both sides air televised propaganda and play with reality. The tactics prompt Katniss and other combatants to repeatedly ask each other, "Real or not real?" But it's no game. ... The novel's biggest surprises are found elsewhere. Hope emerges from despair. Even in a dystopian future, there's a better future.
Entertainment Weekly -- Fans will be happy to hear that Mockingjay is every bit as complex and imaginative as Hunger Games and Catching Fire. Collins has kicked the brutal violence up a notch in an edge-of-your-seat plot that follows Katniss as she tries to fulfill her role, protect her mother and sister and, in the end, finally choose between her two greatest loves.
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