Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2)

Another amazing book in the trilogy! If you read the first book in the trilogy reading the second is a must read! I absolutely loved it and I'm sure anyone else will also love love love it.

Unexpected things happen in the book and it will really just make you want to read more and more and more. Really I wouldn't understand how anyone can not like it.

If you haven't read it I suggest you get your hands on it fast!

All three books in the Hunger Games are extraordinary and entirely worth reading, the characters are real and deep and well developed; but be warned the love story between Katniss and Peeta, as well as the love triangle including Gale is not what this book is about, and maybe that's the point. Like the rest of the selfish, corrupted and twisted people in the capital I'm so sucked into their love story in the Hunger Games that I overlook the senseless death that surrounds them, and I think that says something. But their relationship is something that I wish the author had given us more of. Instead the sweet moments where Katniss gets a brief moment to share with Peeta or Gale are somewhat rushed past or skipped over.

I didn't find this book as traumatizing as the first one, but I think that's because the underlying current of terror was pushed to the surface and you were faced to deal with it square on, just as the characters were. My heart ached for them all, especially the tributes/victors. Hadn't they experienced enough pain and suffering? The author is amazing at writing characters that break your heart and characters that you would be terrified of if they existed in real life. I knew something like the ending was going to happen, but I hadn't quite figured it out before it happened. I cannot wait to read the next book.

the series continues and can't be any better. reading these books is one of the best ways to spend you time. i read this in a day

This is one of the most amazing trilogy that I have ever read. The Hunger Games is one of my most favorite books just after The Knife of Never Letting Go, and Catching Fire is right up there with them. I loved the idea of the quarter quell with the winners of the previous Hunger Games coming back into the arena. I thought that this was a brilliant idea that keeps the Hunger Games spirit flying.

In this book, Katniss gets a bit wacko. The reality of the whole Hunger Games thing comes crashing down onto with a lot of force, causing her mind to get screwed up. Peeta was really the one who kept with it, but he still was different since they came out of the arena.

Catching Fire is the stunning sequel to The Hunger Games. Its full of gore, politics, and so much more. Catching Fire is the most you can ever hope for, and maybe even better.

Whoa.

Just as good as the first one!

This was my favorite out of the three!
Peeta

I love this book I cannot wait to do a review for MockingJay

This was definitely my favorite out of the three. I thoroughly enjoy the additional characters and plot development.

I loved THE HUNGER GAMES, and I immediately picked up CATCHING FIRE to see where Katniss's story went next. While this was my least favorite of the trilogy, I still found the story compelling and heartbreaking. The arena in this book was particularly fascinating and terrifying!

Reader reviewed by darklightkid

"The Hunger Games" was only the beginning. Six months after the events of the first book, Katniss and Peeta are about to go on the Victory Tour of Panem when President Snow visits them in the Victor's Village, the ultra-luxurious neighborhood in which the two winners now live. Snow gives them an ultimatum - convince him that their actions at the end of the Hunger Games were done out of hopeless love, and not rebellion, or he will have their families killed.

During the tour, it becomes apparent that pockets of rebellion are popping up all around Panem, and Katniss and Peeta are the unofficial figureheads. They do their best to pretend they are a deeply devoted couple, but Snow remains unconvinced by the time the tour ends.

This year, for the 75th Games, the Capitol is organizing a Quarter Quell, an every-25-years special event when a different horrifying twist is applied to the choosing of tributes. This time around, the twist is that all tributes must be previous victors - a sick variation on all-star editions of reality competitions. As District 12's only female victor, Katniss will have to compete again. Even worse, Peeta tries to spread sympathy for Katniss by lying on live TV and announcing that he and Katniss were to be married, and that Katniss is pregnant.

The fight for life has begun, again, and it is most certainly a more thrilling thrill ride than the last installment. Without a doubt this is up near the top on the list of best teen novels of 2009. Read it, if you dare.