Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Catching Fire

Catching Fire
By: Suzanne Collins
Reviewed by: JNoto, 14
Rating: Hated it!

After winning the 74th Hunger Games, Peeta and Katniss return to District 12 to begin a Victory Tour around the nation. However, Katniss is visited by President Snow, who says in order to keep her loved ones safe she must Snow that she and Peeta are really in love. Despite their attempts to make their act of love appear genuine, rebellion stirs in the other districts.One year passes and the 75th Hunger Games, or the Quarter Quell, approach. Since it won’t be the average Hunger Games, this year 24 winning tributes of pass games will compete in the arena. While Peeta and Katniss form bonds with other tributes, the talk of rebellion continues and they find themselves in the midst of a rebel organization.A bit better than the first book, but I still didn’t like it. While Collins might have tried to make Katniss more relatable to the readers by making her callous and suspicious, I thought that it made Katniss a shallow, stubborn, stuck up teenager. I couldn’t relate to her at all. Whatever independence or fierceness she was supposed to have was not convincing nor admirable. It was more annoying to me.

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