Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (REVIEW) -- The Girl Who Led a Revolution
[ Please note that this review is for the third book in the Hunger Games series... and, while there are no spoilers for this book, some key events in the previous two books are mentioned. So, if you haven't yet started the series, you'll want to read the two earlier books before continuing on in this review... ] John Lennon might have believed a better future was within reach when he penned "Imagine" nearly forty years ago, but my considerably-more-pessimistic take on humanity causes me to conclude that his vision was little more than a sweet-but-naive pipe dream. (I mean, sure, I enjoyed all the various iterations of "Star Trek"--with the wholesome "Prime Directive" and the "we're-all-equal-pals" federation--as much as the next sci-fi geek did... but it was all those other TV shows and movies set in outerspace--the grungier, nastier ones free of any lyre-playing--that I actually found sort of believable.) So, while Lennon'...