Let the Final Hunger Games Begin!

For the last time, Katniss Everdeen is back.

In the resounding finale to Suzanne Collins’s bestselling trilogy, Mockingjay plucks Katniss out of the Hunger Games and deposits her reluctantly into the post-apocalyptic world beyond.

While the third book loses some of the gritty intimacy that made The Hunger Games and Catching Fire so intensely personal, Mockingjay makes up for it with the conflict expanding exponentially in both scope and bloodshed as Katniss’s battle spills out of the arena into the country of Panem.

Katniss finds herself as the new figurehead for the rebellion, where she must fight not only for her life, but for the lives of her family, her friends, and the future. The torrent of civil war intertwines itself into the machinations of the mysterious and fabled District 13, ravages pitilessly through her beloved home of District 12, and finally builds to a devastating climax in the streets of The Capitol itself.

As our heroine secures her Mockingjay pin and adjusts to her new life starring in propaganda videos where she is considered little more than a prop, going through formal soldier training while fighting her natural rebelliousness, and dealing with the impact of war on her fragile psyche, characters from her past arrive in the story to offer her support or defiance--or sometimes both.

Readers will welcome back Katniss’s best friend Gale Hawthorne (now a surprisingly amoral soldier), her Hunger Games mentor Haymitch Abernathy (as dour and besotted as ever), her orchestrated lover and competitor Peeta Mellark (is he now an agent of The Capitol, or merely a hostage?), her little sister Primrose Everdeen (all grown up and now in harm’s way), and many more familiar faces.

She also allies with President Coin, the President of District 13 and the leader of the rebellion. Coin turns out to be a woman whose goals are currently aligned with Katniss’s, but who may prove to be even more ruthless than the Mockingjay herself. Katniss also reencounters--both in word and in deed--Panem’s ruthless President Snow, as he unleashes the full might of his cunning and The Capitol’s weaponry to maintain his stranglehold on the districts. And he hasn’t forgotten his personal threat against Katniss’s life.

Confronting enemies more horrific than anything in the arena, coping with losses more heartbreaking than ever before, and with Panem’s freedom resting on her will to lead:

Katniss Everdeen, may the odds be ever in your favor.

Mockingjay is now available for Kindle readers.