Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Dec 13, 2010 Daniel rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, scifi-fantasy

In my review of Book One (for which I've taken many pot shots from readers who feel my opinions are wrong) I said that I wouldn't be reading Book Two because I don't like being played for a sucker, and the cliffhanger ending played me big time.

Well, I'm eating those words. I just read Book Two, and of course this time I went in knowing that it was part of a series and OF COURSE it would end in a cliff-hanger moment, so I wasn't disappointed when I read it.

Why did I read it? Because my daughter r ...more

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Mar 27, 2012 Mark rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, young-adult, read-2012

I read The Hunger Games at the behest of my first daughter, the first person in our family to read Suzanne Collins' trilogy and fall in love with it. So I read it. And I liked it. I didn't fall in love with it, however, largely because YA is not, generally speaking, my cup of tea. And, to my daughter's horror and amazement, I didn't continue onward with the series.

Enter Daughter #2. She's a voracious reader, Rowan. Has read the Harry Potter series and all of Rick Riordan's books umpteen times ov ...more

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Aug 03, 2011 Richard rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi, e-book, book-club

I liked it. Next!

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Jun 03, 2010 Celeste rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-1-first

This book continued the amazing rides that we were allowed to board in The Hunger Games. I liked it almost as much, but not quite as the first. I really can't tell you why that is, but I did enjoy it and am looking forward to finishing the series with Mockingjay; although I'm putting that one off awhile in order to finish some of the books already on my nightstand. I do love Suzanne Collins writing. ...more

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