[Re-read December 4, 2014] 
 [Original review posted January 12, 2012] 
 That was the most amazing ending, but the most awful way to get to it. 
 Whenever I read books or watch TV shows, I always get extremely invested in the characters so if one of them dies, it's like a part of me dies too. So I spent a majority of the 3rd section trying to read through tears. I really felt like some of the deaths were completely unnecessary and I felt like I had grown to love so many of these people and then so few of them were left at the end. 
 While I was devastated near the end, I will say that the actual ending made me ecstatic. It was exactly what I wanted to happen; I just hated how we got there. I don't know if it's been so long since I FIRST read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but I was even more invested in those characters and I don't remember having a reaction like this. I think because in HP, a lot of characters died, but there were always so many main characters that you were able to just be happy that they lived, and I feel like with the Hunger Games, there were never really more than a handful of main characters and most of them were killed off. 
 (view spoiler)[I think the two deaths that really got to the most were Finnick's and Prim's. Finnick was just married and it was like everything was going to be happy with him and Annie and then BAM! He's dead. And Prim, Katniss saved her life in the beginning of the series only to have her die later? In that case, she should have just let her go in the games and get herself killed then?! I just didn't really see the point in them having to die... (hide spoiler)] 
 Other than those 2 mentioned deaths, I loved these books so so much, and definitely don't regret that I read them and shed tears over them, they were worth it.