Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
391 pages

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the annual competition described in Hunger Games, but the aftermath leaves these victors with no sense of triumph. Instead, they have become the poster boys for a rebellion that they never planned to lead. That new, unwanted status puts them in the bull's-eye for merciless revenge by The Capitol. (Goodreads)

DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE FIRST BOOK!

I have just finished Catching Fire (the second in The Hunger Games trilogy)and I feel breathless.

I don't know where to start because I do not even want to remotely give anything away. I loved this just as much as The Hunger Games, if not more! I can't wait to purchase Mockingjay and eat it up too.

Katniss Everdeen, after winning The Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark, has found herself an icon of rebellion after the threat of double suicide with the poison berries in the last Games. This has not pleased those who run the Capitol. There are many changes taking place in her home in District 12, and as she learns, the other districts as well.

They are many twists and turns as the 75th annual Hunger Games is approaching, marking a Quarter Quell, in which makes for a sick twist in the way the Games are played.

I don't want to say much more about the plot because it is so exciting. There were many moments I cried and a few I laughed (mostly Haymitch had something to do with it) but I mostly felt solemn and afraid for the whole lot of them. I had a hard time putting this one down and I feel you will too!

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The Hunger Games Movie

Is anyone else excited about this?! I know I am!!




I really like her as Katniss. When I saw the picture of her blonde, I was hesitant, but here I think she looks fantastic. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif


Here is the link to some of the cast set to play in the movie adaptation of the book. Some of them I can picture, others not so much.

The Hunger Games Cast

The Hunger Games Cast 2

In case you don't feel like clicking throught the pictures from the link, these are the characters so far...

Katniss Everdeen - Jennifer Lawrence
Peeta Mellark - Josh Hutcherson
Gale Hawthorne - Liam Hemsworth
Effie Trinket - Elizabeth Banks
Mrs. Everdeen - Paula Malcomson
Cinna - Lenny Kravitz
Primrose Everdeen - Willow Shields
Seneca Crane - Wes Bentley
Thresh - Dayo Okeniyi
Rue - Amandla Stenberg
Marvel - Jack Quaid
Glimmer - Leven Rambin
Caesar Flickerman - Stanley Tucci
Haymitch Abernathy - Woody Harrelson
Claudius Templesmith - Toby Jones
President Snow - Donald Sutherland
Cato - Alexander Ludwig
Clove - Isabelle Fuhrman
Tribute Boy (District 3) - Ian Nelson
Tribute Girl (District 3) - Kalia Prescott
Tribute Boy (District 4) - Ethan Jameson
Tribute Girl (District 4) - Tara Macken

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Whoa. I feel absolutely breathless. Just having finished this novel, I feel as if I have just went through a whirlwind, just sitting here on my couch.

First of all, I love Katniss. She is an unbelievably strong girl, who feels that since her father's death it is her duty to take care of her family. Sometimes she can be a bit headstrong, stubborn, and seemingly emotionless, but ultimately she is a fighter and a survivor in a world that mostly knows hunger and pain.

With The Hunger Games, it will take an emotional toll on you, from the characters you love to the ones you hate, the ones you pity to the ones you wish you could get to yourself. Filled with hope, loss, pain, love, the need to survive, and learning what's really in your heart, it is very thrilling and takes you on an exciting journey that will linger in your mind even after you have finished reading.

I would definitely recommend this book to others and it will probably be one of those books I won't be able to stop talking about for some times. I urge anyone to pick up this book as I feel they won't regret it.

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