Picture this: a young girl growing up in a rough, hopeless city suffers from haunting images of her violent past. To deal with the memories she self-medicates until she can barely function. It's only when a call to action, a call to defend her people, gives her the strength to overcome her addiction and her inner demons that she pulls herself up by the bootstraps and joins the fight. 
 That sounds awesome right? Congratulations me!!!!! I just figured out a new way to enjoy this book... but now it's too late. 
 This whole book is no longer a YA Dystopian Acton-Adventure novel like before. Now it's a Dystopian novel about a war veteran who is bouncing back from Post traumatic stress disorder, Night-Terrors, and drug addiction. And if you go into it like that it's interesting. Also if you pretend Katniss is an old salty sea dog, that's even better. 
 First of all, the overarching message was beat-you-over-the-head-with-an-ACME-anvil heavy-handed. OKAY! We get it: War is HELL. We all know that. War destroys families and friendships. War changes people. And government is evil. And it makes people depressed and crazy. Yep. And so basically lots of people dies. Like a RedShirt Army. Awesome. 
 Katniss is hardly part of any army anymore. At most, she becomes powerless and mentally ill, and ultimately boring. From book two to three, she has developed an ambiguous mental disorder where she can't sleep and sees things, and she wants to touch Peeta a lot even though she doesn't like him. 
 The development of her disorder is nonexistent. It just is there. It isn't organic, and we don't watch her slowly fall apart. We just believe that she does because she can't sleep and she sees stuff. And so in this book it's hard to take her behavior seriously. 
 Now given that doctors can put together a whole body and make excellent prosthetics and do all these medical miracles, it makes no sense that Katniss's ambiguous disorder goes undiagnosed. She spends probably 50% of the book huddled in dark corners rocking back and forth like a lunatic. I believe that she's killed a lot of people, and that she is probably scarred. But would it have killed Collins to just call it like it is in the book? She has PTSD. 
 But WAIT! There's more. She has all the types of PTSD, not just one. 
 A simple google search reveals that tit for tat: 
 1,Symptoms of intrusive memories may include: 
 Flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time 
 Upsetting dreams about the traumatic event 
 2.Symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing may include: 
 Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event 
 Feeling emotionally numb 
 Avoiding activities you once enjoyed 
 Hopelessness about the future 
 Memory problems 
 Trouble concentrating 
 Difficulty maintaining close relationships 
 3.Symptoms of anxiety and increased emotional arousal may include: 
 Irritability or anger 
 Overwhelming guilt or shame 
 Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much 
 Trouble sleeping 
 Being easily startled or frightened 
 Hearing or seeing things that aren't there 
 Every single symptom listed on webM.D. is exhibited in the book and nobody actually cares. The doctors don't care; her friends are suffering from it too, and yet no one is given any real PTSD treatment... 
 It is pitiful to watch Katniss hide in corners. Honestly, as a standalone, this book might have been good. But as it is part of a trilogy, it was nauseating to watch the series go out with a whimper. 
 Maybe this is what Collins wanted. If so, she got it. Now I will remember Katniss as a pawn used by the fake government, with PTSD and bad taste in men. 
 Poor girl.