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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

Suzanne Collins

Why we're reading this: Part 2 of The Hunger Games trilogy!
[close] Part 2 of The Hunger Games trilogy!

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Jan 26, 2012 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, young-adult-teen-new-adult, library-has-a-copy, best-books-read-in-2012, dystopian

So, so, so, good! The ending was incredible! And so unexpected!

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Aug 31, 2010 pianogal rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

This book almost got 5 stars, but it suffers a little from what I like to call Empire syndrome. In the Star Wars trilogy (the originals), Empire is a good movie, but b/c it is the middle flick, we don't get enough resolution to make it totally satisfying. So it is with Catching Fire. Excellent story...I didn't want to put it down once I started. (Unfortunately I had to, thanks to work, a migraine...you know the usual.)

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I didn't get the end of the story. Did we stop in a spot where I can at ...more

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Feb 22, 2011 Sharon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: adventure, fantasy

This is a continuation of The Hunger Games. To my mind, these books should be read in order. Someone reading the second or third in the series would miss a lot in background material and characters if he/she hadn't read the first book. Again, I love the story. The language is simple, told from a first person point of view, so the voice seems right to me.

Katniss, the main character, continues her journey in a strange world. The end of this book reveals that things are not as they seem, at least ...more

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Sep 09, 2009 Cathy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: teen-book, thriller, dystopian

This sequel to the Hunger Games is hard to put down. You feel like you just caught your breath again and you're back on a roller coaster. ...more

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Mar 19, 2011 Khim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2011

Je kunt echt merken dat dit een tweede boek is, dus een tweede deel. Het eerste deel moet je wel lezen om dit tweede deel te kunnen begrijpen. Dit boek gaat niet echt meer over de Hongerspelen, maar meer de politieke en machtspelletjes die met Katniss worden gespeeld. Niet echt verrassend is dat Katniss voor de tweede keer de arena in moet en moet spelen tegen alle oud spelers. Spannend is het wel, maar minder boeiend en pakkend als het eerste deel.

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