"Mockingjay," by Suzanne Collins

Sex:2/5
Language:1/5
Violence:4/5
Did I love it:5/5

This is the third and final book to "The Hunger Games" trilogy. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Although I wouldn't have minded a little more romance (at least as much in the first two), I'm not sure that it could have been told another way. Maybe I'm just too sentimental as a writer myself, but I felt like the author was telling Katniss' story more than she was engineering it. It was what it was. I loved it.

Plot: The rebellion against the Capitol is fully launched, and Katniss plays a key role as the symbolic Mockingjay. There is drama with the love triangle, but not at all what you would expect. It keeps you guessing until the very end, and wraps up the series pretty thoroughly.

Sex: There's a little bit of teenage kissing, and one of the characters talks about his body "being sold." There are no graphic details. There is at least one scene of a teenage girl and a teenage boy sleeping in the same bed, but not romantically. However, there is one scene that sex may be implied, but I'm not sure. It just says, "after," which could have just been a kiss.

Language: Very minor. Maybe an "H" or "D," but no specific use comes to mind.

Violence: Yes, more violence. There's basically a war going on, so you see various people killed in various way. There aren't any slow, graphic deaths or murders, however we do hear about some torture scenes that took place off location. They are not told in real time. Some of them are detailed, but still not too overly graphic. Overall, I feel the author handles the subject matter very tastefully.