Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins (2010)
“A girl forced to become a symbol discovers that the people who claim to fight for freedom may be just as dangerous as the tyrants they oppose.”
Short Summary
After destroying the Hunger Games arena, Katniss Everdeen is rescued by the rebels of District 13, whose leader President Coin wants to use her as the Mockingjay — the face of the revolution against the Capitol. Katniss agrees on conditions, but discovers propaganda is the same weapon on both sides. Peeta, captured and psychologically tortured by the Capitol, is turned into a weapon against her. As the rebels invade the Capitol, Katniss watches her squad die in booby-trapped streets, loses her sister Prim to a bomb she believes Coin ordered, and assassinates Coin instead of Snow at the public execution. She returns to District 12, broken and haunted, and slowly rebuilds a life with Peeta — though the scars never fully heal.
Detailed Summary
Mockingjay opens in the ruins of District 12. Katniss Everdeen stands in the ashes of her former home, bombed to rubble by the Capitol after her act of defiance at the end of Catching Fire. She has been rescued by the rebels of District 13 — a supposedly destroyed district that has survived undergro...