Mockingjay

The first installment of the trilogy was the strongest. Mockingjay suffers from lack of good pacing and organization, and is inevitably the weakest installment ofthe trilogy. By the end of all the seemingly endless pain and misery, I was just as tired as the characters. Whole chunks of soldiering around in District 13 could have been cut without affecting the story. I was a big fan of the President Snow and Katniss dynamic, Katniss' mental deterioration, and Peeta's role in this book. Beyond that, the story becomes convoluted by unnecessary characters when it stagnates in District 13. Not a bad ending, but I'm glad it ended. At least I feel the characters earned their ending, which is more than I can say about some other bestsellers. The Hunger Games is fine as a trilogy, but the overall story could have been tighter and more polished as one novel.