Mockingjay

“What's with this book?” the checker at Target asked me, as he scanned Mockingjay and then bagged it for me. “Everybody's buying this book!”



I'd held off for six days. But I could not wait any longer. Within an hour, I'd bought it and had settled down nicely into chapter one.



I finished it nine days later. Yes, I could have dashed through it that night, but who really wants to finish that last, final book in the series?



So what do I think? Bottom line, thumbs up or thumbs down?



(I don't like spoilers, so I promise to give away none of the plot for the three of you out there who haven't yet read the book.)



Here goes. It's a safe bet I like the series or what I am I doing buying book three, right? So I like the series. And I thought book three was about as good as one and two.



But I want to say more than I like the series or that book three is about as good as one and two. This is what I want to say: The series made me think about our world and violence and tv and human nature. I'm glad it did. I'm hoping that all the kazillion kids reading this book are also thinking about our world and violence and tv and human nature. I'm pretty sure they are.



Because I'm a school librarian, I feel compelled to add that I honestly would not be crazy about my eight-year-old reading this series. It's violent. Read it first, mom.