Book review #2

Catching Fire (2009)

Collins, Suzanne

Science fiction

Rating: 9/10

Warnings: Violence

Katniss is back in another great hunger games.  In this book Katniss has just won the hunger games and she is now living in victors village and she is rich and her family is safe.  Now victors village holds three people Peeta Mellark, Haymitch, and Katniss.  Katniss is not coping well with the hunger games because of her frequent nightmares.  Also the victory tour is coming up and not to mention her relationship with peeta is a little rocky right now.

The quarter quell is coming up and it only comes every twenty five years, this means that this will be the seventy fifth hunger games and there is something special every quarter quell.  Their is rumors of uprisings and rebellion so President Snow is sure to make an example out of the next tributes.  Will Katniss have to go in again?  Will she survive?  These questions will be answered if you read this book.

The major theme in this book is fighting back for things that you believe in and also rebellion.  Also another theme in this book is the struggle for life and how easily it can be taken away.

This is another intense action novel and it gives a good perspective of what things would be like if your country was in total control of you and what it would be like if the people were finally fighting back.  This book is written in first person and give the views of Katniss and her thoughts on her trials that she is going through.

The intended audience of this novel is young adults and it is appropriate for both boys and girls.  This book is good for girls because it shows what a girls life could be like and also there is romantic scenes in it.  Boys would like this too because of the violence and intense action in this book.

I read this book because I had read the first of the series and wanted to find out what happened next.  Although this book starts off kind of slow it has a very dramatic ending and I enjoy reading it a lot.  John Green of the New York Times Book Review said "Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced.... Engrossing." Stephen King of Entertainment Weekly said "The Hunger Games is a violent, jarring speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense.... I couldn't stop reading."  I would recommend this book to others, it was a good book.