Until you realize that the author sees both sides as faces of the same coin, both equally evil, you do not realize where she was going with it. All the originality was in the first book.
Until you realize that the author sees both sides as faces of the same coin, both equally evil, you do not realize where she was going with it.'HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1' REVIEW: ACCEPTABLE BUT UNEXCEPTIONAL PLACEHOLDER
Being the Mockingjay is not a responsibility Katniss wants. Our reluctant revolutionary is worried about her family, paralyzed with anguish over Peeta, and still a teenager for crying out loud. The process of being an effective symbol is also a manipulative one involving "propos," propaganda videos manufactured by Plutarch Heavensbee (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman), who is also the chief strategist for President Coin (an icy, strong-willed Julianne Moore).[...]
What is special is Jennifer Lawrence. Although Katniss is too often sidelined from the action and mopes through almost all 123 minutes, without saying a word, the stunning Lawrence communicates the coiled spring that lives inside Katniss, and that's an explosion we want to see. Another unspoken subplot is her simmering distrust in the rebel leaders. Will the new boss look like the old boss?
like "Animal Farm"?
I saw it as a retelling of Theusus and the Monitor, but books two and three stress the damage to children who fight wars: Post traumatic stress syndrome in Katnis and Brainwashing in Peta and the corruption of Dale are three examples of how war can damage the innocent who are caught in the middle of a revolution, no matter how just the war.
One review mocked the fight as being between Stalin and PolPot, and given the dictatorship of district 13 that sounds about right. I presume you read book three about how Katnis solves this...