**edited 02/01/14 
 Ever read a sequel to a book you loved only to find that said sequel was not simply disappointing, but was so naive that it caused you to go back and reevaluate the original book? That was Mockingjay (and, to a lesser extent, Catching Fire), for me. Let me be clear: it's not a bad book; I just found it very disappointing and it caused me to question whether the brilliant insights I saw in the first book were really there at all. 
 I loved the character of Katniss in the first book: resourceful, determined, and ruthless, but not devoid of empathy or compassion. Although I found it difficult to read, I understood her evolution into the cold, calculating murderess of Catching Fire. But where did this fainting, fluttering, wingeing, whining weakling spring from? Katniss, the girl who earned her fame by defying the Capitol, literally spends half of the book in a state of semi-comatose self-pity. 
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 Due to my disapproval of GR's new and highly subjective review deletion policy, I am no longer posting full reviews here. 
 The rest of this review can be found on Booklikes.