It’s exactly 1:47 am and I am the only one awake, huddled in my bed, electric blanket keeping me warm, the TV quietly humming HGTV, and I am so engrossed in Mockingjay that I just can’t put it down and go to sleep. Never mind that I have to be up at 6am, on my A-Game, ready to drive to Boston and finish my daughter’s move.
That’s how good this series is. Now, I know the big conflict of this series is how can we let our kids read a book about killing each other to survive. Well, I’ve read over a thousand books in my lifetime and I’ve never come across one like this. The author definitely has come up with a concept to rattle all of our brains, tug at our hearts, and send our thinking into overdrive.
I must admit this third book moves slower than the rest. At first I thought it was a flaw of the writing. Now I think it was intentional. Most books start with a protagonist having a problem, build to a crescendo, resolve the problem, and then gently end. I think this author did all of these things, but did it over three books. I feel like I’m in the ending. It’s still so hopeless. It’s still so hard to move from event to event, so unlike the first two books that moved so quickly, I read them in a matter of hours. Book three is taking days.
And so, as another day just begins to go by, I’ll read a few more pages, and then I’ll have to give in to sleep to survive moving in Boston tomorrow, and…I have written.
This one has me in a tailspin…
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