MOCKINGJAY countdown: just 22 days left!

August 2, 2010

It’s August and it’s just over three weeks until Suzanne Collins’s MOCKINGJAY, the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy, is released.

I was originally planning to find a bookstore that would be doing a midnight release and camping out to get a copy, but then I got word that Suzanne Collins would be visiting a bookstore not too far from me to do a reading and stamping (rather than a signing, due to a previous injury) a few days after the book comes out, so as much as it’s going to kill me to wait all day Tuesday, all day Wednesday, all day Thursday, and all morning Friday that week (I might have to just stay off the Internet entirely!), I’m going to wait. It’ll be worth it!

Dystopian stories are my favorite, so I’m predisposed to like the Hunger Games trilogy anyway, but I think Collins does a great job of building a whole and complete fantasy world that’s internally consistent in its history, politics, and mythology. I also love the way she gives you just enough of that history to hint at a bigger picture we don’t know yet. And it’s not just in the Hunger Games books that she does this: the Underland Chronicles, which follow the adventures of Gregor the Overlander and are for younger readers, have that same kind of detailed world-building that makes for a successful sci-fi or fantasy book. Anyway, while I’m really on Team Katniss more than I am Team Peeta or Team Gale, I’m really excited to see more of the world Collins has created in MOCKINGJAY and to finally get some answers about District 13!

In the meantime, School Library Journal has an interview with Collins and Michelle of Galleysmith kicks off the 13 District MOCKINGJAY Blog Tour with her post representing District 1. She’s giving away a boxed set of the trilogy, so make sure to enter the contest! Doug of ScifiGuy.ca represents District 2 and will be doing his post this Wednesday.

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