The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
After reading Mockingjay all I can make out right now is OMG! A PHENOMENAL finale to the trilogy and I could not be more elated with the ending. I am fully aware that Mockingjay - Part 1 is out in cinemas currently. I wanted to read the book before I watched the movie which has been nightmarish because everyone's been raving about how great it was. Surprisingly, no spoilers have come my way; I was very careful when searching anything to do with the last book of the trilogy for fear of spoilers.
When I was reading it, I just kept hoping and praying for Peeta's recovery and it never came. I began to get frustrated that it went up to the point where I felt I loathed the book. But thankfully the mere ending of the book made it the best book in the world (for me). The revolution part of the novel made the hair on my skin stand straight like the rebel soldiers. There were so many unexpected moments at the end of each chapter that it made me want to cry. The end of part 1 in the movie, where Peeta begins to strangle Katniss made my heart fall. I started smiling when they were reunited, I kept my substantial grin when reading the following:
"I'm disappointed that mine was not the first face that he saw when he woke, but he sees it now. His features register disbelief and somethinng more intense that I can't quite place. Desire? Desperation? Surely both, for he sweeps the doctors aside, leaps to his feet and moves towards me. I run to meet him, my arms extended to embrace him. His arms are reaching for me too, to caress my face, I think."
Then my face and heart fell when I read the last line:
"My lips are forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat."
Clearly, I was utterly devastated. When the war occurred, I was drawn to this book like a fly on shit. I was even more devastated when I forced myself to read the part when Gale kisses her bruised neck and her lips. It broke my heart for Peeta's sake.
The explosions, the gunfire and the harsh reality of life was an exhilarating aspect of the book, not unlike the breakage of the force field in Catching Fire. Then the unexpected, heart-dropping, what-the-fuck moment occured once more with the following line:
"Trying to shout her name above the roar. I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I think she hears me. Because just for a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off."
I undertsand that the sentences alone means absolutely nothing. Why is it such an unexpected, heart-dropping and what-the-fuck moment? Because, "she" was Prim (Katniss' sister) and the parachutes were bombs or explosives. The death of Prim was emotional and heart-breaking and I thought that Katniss was never going to recover. Until Peeta came in! The best part of the trilogy for me! Never has my grin gone so big after reading:
Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me. And eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that. So after, when he whispers, "You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real."
I would forever recommend this book to absolutely anyone. Watch the trailer to Mockingjay - parts 1 and 2.
IMDB for Part 1: 6.8
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