Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games, #3) * * * *
I actually listened to the better half of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins . I was busy with baking and other stuff, so I ended up listening to the audiobook . Therefore, I may not have caught all the details. This book finally breaks away from the "going to the games" format. I was actually glad for that, as it was getting a bit boring. It's hard to talk about the book without going into spoilers, but if someone read the second one, then it was obvious that there was going to be a war. The war is rather realistic, and unapologetic about it. People die. By the hundreds sometimes. Both sides do things that are cruel. I felt that was a very strong point of this book, that people get hurt, die, and sometimes those you care about. Towards the end the endgame was done really well. It showed us a glimpse of the world that I'm sure we all wanted to see, without breaking away from the main point of the story. I kept talking in my previous book reviews for the series about the g...