I liked this book because parts of it elicited strong emotion in me (I'm not going to lie, I cried) but I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed Catching Fire. I think it suffered from trying to tell both a deeper story about a girl and a society that have been traumatised by war, as well as providing an end to an exciting action series in which that girl's strength was the central element. While I think books about war should be pessimistic, I never saw the series to be a "war" series, and so I found this end to it depressing and perhaps more realistic than I wanted it to be.