Mockingjay is the third and final installment of the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The events of Mockingjay take place a few months after where Catching Fire ended beginning with Katniss visiting the ruins of her home, District 12. District 13 has risen from the ashes and is ready to destroy the Capitol once uniting the districts to strengthen the already growing rebellion, though, they need Katniss, a national symbol, to be willing to be their pawn in order to help further their plans. The Capitol tries to keep the rest of Panem in check "peacefully" at first by having Peeta, who was taken hostage by the Capitol at the end of the last book, to warn them of the travesty that would occur if the country goes to war amongst itself. But alas, the rebellion continues and we lose many characters in some way or another along the way.
The pacing of this book was rather odd, in my opinion, because it was dragging in some places and too rushed in others causing you to miss some details both important and insignificant. Seriously, I did not realize that Finnick Odair was killed until it was stated a few pages after the fact causing me to have to go back and find out how he died the first time I read the book. The early days in District 13 are especially slow in pace because not much is going on in the beginning because it is mostly her explaining her daily life, her worries of what is happening to Peeta and the rest of the captured Tributes/Victors, District 13 officials trying to convince her to be
