Brings it home at as searing a pace as the first two books. Doesn't flinch from the implications of the violence and layers upon layers of manipulation that it depicts, nor from the moral greyness of the choices that are forced on Katniss, and in doing so finds a satisfying resolution not only to the machinations of its plot but also to the Kat-Gale-Peeta triangle that had loomed as the series' weak point throughout.