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Catching Fire

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Author Suzanne Collins
Illustrator - No Illustrator
Publisher Scholastic, 2009
Genres Action / Adventure / SportsEmotions / FeelingsFamily & FriendsFantasy / Make Believe
Age Range 6th through 9thHigh School

Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's no entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

Catching Fire
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Better than the first!

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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins was an impressive second installment in the Hunger Games series. The writing has reached a more mature level and the twists in the story are truly surprising. I find myself often able to guess what is going to come next in most stories - but Collins really throws a few curve balls that I did not see coming.

The story picks up a few months after the original story ended Katniss and Peeta are back home and have been moved in to the special area of town designated for victors. While their lives have become more comfortable with nice homes and plentiful food - they can tell that a foul mood and tension has entered the community. I really don't want to say much more of the plot than that because the surprises come pretty early on in the story.

I finished this book in about two evenings time, mostly because I couldn't put it down. I'm very glad that the third installment to the series, Mockingjay, is coming out shortly because the ending of this book is extremely abrupt. It had the feel of the end of a chapter - not the end of a complete story.

There are the same issues in this story with violence and adult themes of war and oppression - but nothing that I don't think anyone above 6th grade couldn't handle. In fact, I think it's actually better to have a child read about violence in a way where a character dies; there is blood and damage; and consequences follow; then the way many video games and tv shows have people being killed without anyone batting an eye or having it be no big deal.

I would definitely recommend this book to both parents and kids alike.
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Reviewed by Mamma B
July 19, 2010
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