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Mockingjay This book is a very different twist in the series. This final chapter of the amazing Hunger Games takes place after Katniss has been pulled from the second arena she's entered and survived, she has been in the hospital, and Gale has informed her that District 12, their home, no longer exists. The book begins with Katniss surveying the damage of her destroyed district, the product of the Capitol's bombing and killing of hundreds. Katniss is heartbroken, but this only makes her hate for the Capitol stronger. Now living underground in the secret District 13, Katniss becomes involved in the biggest part of the rebellion yet- she becomes the Mockingjay. Inspired by her Mockingjay pin, she is the face of the uprising of the districts against the Capitol, with a few conditions for the leader of the operation, Coin- the living tributes from the last Hunger Games are pardoned and left alive, and she gets to kill the maniacal President Snow. But where is Peeta in the mix? He has been captured by the Capitol and is being tortured and used to discourage the rebels- and by doing this, discourage Katniss. After rescuing Peeta, the rebels in 13 discover that he has been injected with enough tracker jacker venom to completely distort his memory of Katniss, leaving him with the desire to kill her. After Peeta recovers some from this, he, Katniss, Finnick, Johanna, and a camera crew advised by Haymitch, Plutarch, and Coin go on a mission to bring down President Snow and the Capitol. While many die along the way, including Katniss' younger sister, Prim, Katniss keeps going strong and eventually reaches her target. The ending will leave you speechless, and every chapter is filled with suspense. You will want to keep reading, and when you're done you will want to read the whole series again. Mockingjay builds upon the greatness of the first two books, and is an amazing follow-up to the story. My favorite part is when the team of rebels going to kill President Snow is in the tunnels under the Capitol and there's so many perils and it's just so suspenseful!