Catching Fire

The book is titled The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. She is the author of this book’s prequel: The Hunger Games and sequel: Mockingjay. Like the prequel, this book is an Action/Science Fiction book. The message I got out of it is to always try to amend your mistakes and stand for what you think is right. In this book, Katniss and Peeta have just survived the Hunger Games and have returned home with riches and rewards, but their victory could lead to an enormous rebellion outbreak throughout the Districts of Panem. Will they be able to fix their mistake?

After Katniss and Peeta chose to both commit suicide by eating poisonous fruit instead of fighting each other to the death, the Gamemakers had no other choice but to let them both win. The citizens of Panem would not allow for there to be no victor. This is a sign of the Capitol’s weakness to the citizens of Panem’s 12 Districts, and many of them think that they should rebel against the Capitol. President Snow has threatened Katniss and Peeta to promote peace and make things right throughout Panem, or their families will die. President Snow sends Katniss and Peeta into another Hunger Games, this time called the Quarter Quell, with previous winners both as punishment and to hopefully restore peace among the 12 Districts. Can Katniss and Peeta survive another round of the deadly Hunger Games and save their families by preventing another deadly rebellion? “’Safe to do what?’ he says in a gentler tone. ‘Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people-you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it. There’s already been talk in the mines. People who want to fight. Don’t you see? It’s happening! It’s finally happening!”(Collins 99). Gale (Katniss’s best friend) is telling Katniss that any future uprising would not be her fault. It’s what the people of the Districts have been waiting for: a chance to change their lives for the better. He’s trying to convince her to try to encourage the uprising, not prevent it. It is intriguing to me because of how much Gale likes the idea of an uprising.

As with the previous book in this series, I loved this book! It was suspenseful and intense. This book is for readers who like books with adventure, suspenseful moments and realistic settings. So many times I couldn’t help but read just a little bit more to see what interesting thing will happen, but then be led right back to the same feeling. Collins did a great job in making the book riveting. This book has left me more than eager to read the next book in the series. 

Book Review by Greg E.