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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

Suzanne Collins

Start date: December 1, 2014

Finish date: December 31, 2014

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Jan 14, 2010 Ahtims rated it really liked it

Shelves: audi, borrowed, young-adult, scifi-utopia-dystopia

This was thrilling and interesting from page 1. The saga of Katniss and her dystopian world continues. She has two suitors - Gayle (or Gail?) and Petah. I prefer Petah to Gayle, but Katniss doesnot seem to think so. In the beginning of the book she is relatively comfortably settled after winning the hunger games and being much richer because of the same, but then her almost tranquil world is shattered when she manages to irk the Capitol once more and is punished for the same by President Snow. A ...more

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Oct 05, 2009 Mark rated it it was amazing

Shelves: re-read, relationships, young-adult-literature, death-and-dying, survival, dystopia

A re-read, since we had just read THE HUNGER GAMES for class, and because I realized that I had raced through this second book, when it first came out a few years ago. I actually think I might like this one a little better than the first book in the trilogy - certainly not as much description of the process behind the Games in book #2, but Collins didn't need to provide that. Instead, readers get much more of a look at the contestants themselves, and the way alliances can shift and evolve during A re-read, since we had just read THE HUNGER GAMES for class, and because I realized that I had raced through this second book, when it first came out a few years ago. I actually think I might like this one a little better than the first book in the trilogy - certainly not as much description of the process behind the Games in book #2, but Collins didn't need to provide that. Instead, readers get much more of a look at the contestants themselves, and the way alliances can shift and evolve during the Games. I particularly like learning more about Haymitch in this one, since he's always been one of the trilogy's most intriguing characters to me.

* Old review (from 2009):

Worth the wait, the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy has just as much action and suspense as the first one. Readers who have not read the first installment will probably want to do so before diving into this one, as it picks up a little while after the completion of the first book's Hunger Games. Katniss, after her bold defiance of the Capitol in book one, is now living in Victory Village, and finding it hard to adjust to a life so rich, after living for years in absolute poverty. And Katniss' actions in the last games have angered the President, riled up people in the other districts, and made her a symbol of the revolution that seems to be lying just below the surface. Collins presents a twist to get Katniss and Peeta back in the arena for the games, and the other combatants are more fully fleshed-out in this book than in the last, even though you know that just about everyone is going to die eventually. No spoilers there - just comes with the territory. By the end of this book, you will be clamoring for the third one just like the rest of us.

Is it a teachable book? Eh, probably not; while the books deal mostly with relationships and issues of trust and friendship, there's just too much violence for these to ever be seriously considered for school use. Too bad - that's the schools' loss, because these books are addictive, and kids will read them voraciously. All teachers, though, should read the trilogy, at least so they can understand what their students are talking about when they breathlessly discuss the latest chapter they've read. Outstanding books, and highly recommended. ...more

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Jan 25, 2012 J. Lynn Else rated it it was amazing

Shelves: awesome-female-leads

Some things are hinted out, but the full affect of what is going on isn't totally revealed until the very end. And WOW! Talk about surprises all throughout. The first book I knew what would eventually happen (you know that somehow Katniss is going to win), but with this book, you have no idea what the next page will bring. It was SO exciting that I could not put it down!!! Great new characters and great new plot twists. I want the next book now! I sense big things!

You know, it's hard to hate Kat ...more

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Mar 20, 2011 Jah H. rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, juvenile-and-young-adult, scifi-spec-apoc-dystop

There are a few other reviewers out there who can express the issues with this book (and the series in general) better than I can (or even have the energy to). Suffice it to say, I really don't get the hype surrounding this series. Perhaps my bar for Young Adult fiction, and particularly Distopian fiction, is too high. I struggled -- really struggled -- to get through this book, and finally finished it on my fourth attempt.

I will still read the third book just to see how it all end, but this is ...more

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Feb 20, 2012 Devin rated it really liked it

Skillfully written page turner and a classic "middle story" of a trilogy. Slightly over-structured for my taste, but it does read along and hurtles the reader toward book 3. ...more

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Mar 24, 2009 Angie Taylor rated it it was amazing

2020 It was so fun to read this book to my kids! They loved it just as much as I did. It’s even better the second third fourth fifth time through.

2013-2016 W-O-W! This was such a fantastic sequel to the first book. I feel just like I did at the end of the first one - I want more. It was awesome. I just wish I didn't have to wait for the next one. ...more

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