Was the final installment in the hunger games series, Mockingjay, good?

I think overall it was a very good book. Just the fact that days after I have finished reading it, I'm still thinking about it proves that. Isn't that what authors want? But anyways, although I do think it was good, I too was disappointed in the ending. I always wanted Peeta and Katniss to end up together also, but I didn't get the closure from it that I had always thought I would. I think the part of the book that was the most depressing is that really, Katniss didn't win. She may have overthrown the capitol, but really, in the end, she lost herself, and almost everything else she ever cared about. She lost Prim, Gale, Finnick, her mother, and even Peeta in a way. Although this is probably more of a realistic ending than it would have been if no one died and everything was happy, it didn't give the readers what they wanted. What happened to Katniss, the girl of fire? She lost the fire that was within her, something I had always admired even though she is a fictional charactor. And Peeta too. What happened to the boy with the bread that we had known in the hunger games and catching fire? Overall, I just think the ending was somewhat rushed, not fully explaining the healing process for Katniss and how Peeta learned to love her again. I feel like we would've gotten much more closure out of this book, had it been longer, or split into two books so Suzanne Collins would have been able to explain in more detail much of what happened. But, I still think SC is a great writer, and can write more great books in the future.

I was very disappointed with the ending also. =/

First of all, I wanted Katniss to end up with Gale...I liked Gale xD But even though she ended up with Peeta, I would have been fine with that if Gale hadn't just run off to District 2...After everything that happened? Meeting Katniss, teaching her to hunt, all that time spent together in the woods...Then he just leaves. That's not something Gale would do. It seemed to me almost as if Suzanne Collins didn't know her characters that well...

I thought the ending was really rushed, it was like the author didn't really know what to do so she just wrote what she wanted to happen...Again, that would have been okay...IF WE HAD HAD ANY IDEA WHAT THE F*CK WAS GOING ON!

That's what pissed me off the most. More than Gale leaving, Katniss's mum abandoning her, Prim and Finnick's deaths, all of that...What bothered me the most was that for the last 40 pages, I had absolutely no idea what was going on. Nothing was ever fully explained..

Why did Gale leave without saying anything to Katniss?

Who's ruling Panem?

Whatever happened to District 13?

Why doesn't Katniss's mum say anything to Katniss?

What happened in the trial?

How did everyone feel after the war was over?

Those weren't even all the questions that came into my head after I was done reading, there were lotz of unexplained things. =/

In conclusion, I think the ending could have been brilliant, just like the rest of the book was. But since nothing was explained properly and everything was rushed at the end, I thought the ending was horrible. =/

*SPOILER*

I really wasn't expecting the book to be that happy--I mean, I admire Collins for not being afraid to portray war for what it truly is, but I wish it hadn't been so depressing.

I admit I cried several times during the book; it was just so moving. Finnick's story was so sad, and his death just made it even worse--leaving poor Annie and his baby all alone. Prim's death was the worse, though. Katniss went through so much to protect her--volunteering to take Prim's place in the Games, and enduring the Games twice as a result of her efforts. But in the end, all of her efforts were for nothing. I'm glad the ending was somewhat happy, though, where she and Peeta ended up together and had kids--except I don't like how Collins never really explained how they fell in love. I'm still wondering what happened to Gale... did Katniss' and his friendship survive?

to those who answered- you should have expected spoilers by the question itself.

and just so you know- SPOILER**

I didn't like the ending at all. The way Suzanne Collins wrote it bothered me. She should have wrote more about how Gale ended up safe, but instead, she just said, oh well he was shot twice, and that was it. Also, I would have rather seen Katniss chose Gale. I never really like Peeta, he was too much of a "pretty boy" and really acted too perfect. I also wanted more of a positive ending. When Prim died i was so sad- and then gale was like well i don't know that might have been our ship- but that's not what i think he really would have said. Just overall, the ending was not really good compared to the other two books

(THIS WHOLE ANSWER IS A SPOILER)

Yeah me too, overall I loved it as book, but I wanted more people to live (like Finnick). I wanted Peeta and Katniss to end up together so I glad about that. It nearly made me cry a couple of times. I was not expecting Prim to die, and I didn't want Gale to go away either but I guess he couldn't really stay. It was really sad, but really good xxx

I think the beginning and middle of the book were okay but then everybody started dying (like Finnick and Prim) which made me sad, but the part where i really felt like crying was when Gale left because Kat sorta blamed him for Prim's death. and then she chose Peeta. so I was really sad/mad and kinda sorry i ever read the series to begin with because it had such a crappy ending. and if you think about it, Prim dying sorta defeated Kat's whole purpose: to keep Prim alive. that was the reason she went to the hunger games in the first place anyway. so basically when i finished I threw the book at the wall

i was dissapointed also..

peeta and katniss ending up together wasnt really explained...how did it happen? before prim died peeta and katniss wern't connecting...then she and him just ended up together somehow... my point is trhey never really reconnected...

and then when alot of the group going to kill snow died they never really mentioned it and you never really leanr anything about them. Then finnick dies and its really quick and never mentioned again. How was Annie handleing her husbands death? What happend to her? Leeg 2 died really quick to...the author only killed him so peeta could join but why? they never explained really why he was sent..there were theories but never actualy explained..

plus...why did katniss kill coin?? Why didnt she kill snow?

but other than that good book..xD

:( :( I didn't even read it yet. Now I know the end :( oh well at least Katniss ends up with Peeta..

there is going to be a action picture, heavily? don't get me incorrect, i'm almost performed with starvation video games and its outstanding, yet there are a number of video clips that would very certainly be screwed up in the event that they are not performed suitable and it incredibly is one in each of them..

thanks for the spoilers