Catching Fire (The Second Book from the Hunger Games) [Kindle Edition] review

Starred Review. Gr 7 Up--Every year in Panem, the dystopic nation that exists the location where the U.S. used to be, the Capitol holds a televised tournament where two teen "tributes" from each of the surrounding districts fight a gruesome battle for the death. Within The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the tributes from impoverished District Twelve, thwarted the Gamemakers, forcing them to let both teens survive. In this rabidly anticipated sequel, Katniss, again the narrator, returns home to locate herself more the midst of attention than ever. The sinister President Snow surprises her with a visit, and Katniss’s fear when Snow meets together with her alone is both palpable and justified. Catching Fire is divided into three parts: Katniss and Peeta’s mandatory Victory Tour from the districts, preparations for the 75th Annual Hunger Games, as well as a truncated version in the Games themselves. Slower paced than its predecessor, this sequel explores the country of Panem: its power structure, rumors of an secret district, as well as a spreading rebellion, ignited by Katniss and Peeta’s subversive victory. Katniss also deepens as a character. Though initially bewildered from the attention paid to her, she comes almost to embrace her status because the rebels’ symbolic leader. Though more with the story occurs beyond your arena than within, this sequel has enough action to impress Hunger Games fans and instead gives off enough questions tantalizingly unanswered for readers to get desperate to the next installment.
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Reviewers were very happy to report how the Hunger Games trilogy is alive and well, and looked forward for the third book inside series after this one's stunning conclusion. But they disagreed over whether Catching Fire was as well as the original book Hunger Games or needs to be viewed as somewhat of your "sophomore slump." Several critics who remained unconvinced by Katniss's romantic dilemma made unfavorable comparisons for the human-vampire-werewolf love triangle in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. But most reviewers felt that Catching Fire used to be a thrill because Collins replicated her initial success at balancing action, violence, and heroism inside a way that will enthrall young readers without providing them with (too many) nightmares.





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Catching Fire (The Second Book in the Hunger Games) [Kindle Edition]