Here it is! Part three of three, the final installment, the wrapping up of the trilogy, the concluding episode that readers of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games have been waiting for.
The trouble is – while everyone has been nervously anticipating the arrival of the book, it appears a large percentage don’t want to read it right away. It’s like the last chocolate bar on the deserted island – your mouth waters at the thought of devouring it, but you know once it is devoured, it is gone forever.
One of my young customers expressed the sentiment, and I just read a column by a Wall Street Journal writer who not only admits to having been completely drawn in by the series intended for young adults, but goes so far as to compare the effect of the serialisation to Charles Dickens. (His titles were often publishsed in segments in the newspaper, drawing out the suspense, but also increasing the letdown when the story was finally ended.)
Mockingjay is already sold out here – but come on down and I’ll order you up a fresh copy!