Catching Fire

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Release Date: September 1st, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 432
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.

I received an ARC of this book when a friend sent it to me in the mail after I started my blog. While it wasn’t from Suzanne Collins or Scholastic I was still super excited when I got this book. I have wanted to read this book since I finished reading The Hunger Games little less than a year ago.

Just like The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins threw twists and cliffhangers at the reader left and right. I read this book in one day, staying up until four a.m. simply having to know what happens to Katniss and Peeta. While some questions were answered, she threw out even more questions making the reader beg for an answer before the book is finished. Unfortunately, not all were answered before the book was concluded.

We get a deeper insight into Katniss and her feelings for both Peeta and Gale, which was a big question at the end of Hunger Games. We also see how the two boys respond to her when she comes to cope with her own feelings. We also get a deeper look into characters we thought we had already figured out completely, like Haymitch.

This book was not a disappointment at all. It reached the expectation that Hunger Games left me hunger for, if not excelling it even more. I cannot wait for the next and final book in the series.

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Release Date: October 1st, 2008
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 374
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Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place

I found this book on Stephenie Meyer's website and was iffy about reading it. It wasn't until my friend basically forced it onto me that I picked it up and read it. And I'm greatly glad that I had. It was a GREAT book. I absolutely love it!

The plot was new and original. The creation of the world was one I've never seen before and was enjoyable to learn about. It was intense and made me read into the early hours of the morning. Since it was written in the present tense, there was no way of knowing how it was going to end. For all I knew, it could have ended in disaster. Each of the chapters left a cliffhanger and there was no choice but to keep reading until the end.

The characters were new and original. It immediately made you fall in love with Katniss and Peeta as they fought through the Hunger Games. It made it hard to decide who I would want to win the story because I loved the characters so much.

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