Author: Suzanne Collins
Summary: Mockingjay is a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last instalment of The Hunger Games series, following 2008’s The Hunger Games and 2009’s Catching Fire.
After Katniss is rescued from the arena by the rebels she agrees to be the symbol of the rebellion. When the rebels rescue Peeta and the others from the Capitol it is quickly learned that Peeta has been brainwashed into hating Katniss when he tries to kill her upon seeing her.
After the rebels take back the districts they start attacking the Capitol itself. Katniss and her team make their way through the booby-trapped city. Losing several of their team as they go. After a while, Katniss is pushing toward Snow’s mansion, which has many human child shields. Afterwards, supply packages rain down from a hovercraft onto these children and a rebel medical team, which includes Katniss’s sister Prim, but instead of supplies there are bombs and all the children die and so does the entire medical team.
After Snow’s capture, he is tried and found guilty. During a conversation with Snow before his execution is supposed to take place, Snow tells him that the final bombing that killed her sister was not ordered by the Capitol, but by Coin, the leader of the rebellion. At the execution of Snow Katniss kills Coin instead of Snow because she knows that he was telling the truth. That it was Coin that ordered the final bombing. After the riot that ensued, Snow was found dead, having either choked on his own blood or being tramped by the crowd.
Katniss is tried for the murder of President Coin but is found not guilty because of her “obvious” insanity. She returns to District 12 with Peeta, who has recovered a lot since his brainwashing, and they become a family and have kids.
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
