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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

100 reviews

jessicaludden's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.”

This will forever be the best book in the series. Truly iconic. It doesn’t hurt any less the second time around reading it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: War, Death, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Pregnancy, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Drug abuse, Murder, and Violence

parisreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Screaming, crying, throwing up. Can’t believe I didn't like this book when I was younger. 12 year old me had no taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, Child death, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Torture, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Drug abuse

drasticpear's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Torture, Death, Grief, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Alcoholism, Child death, and Confinement

Minor: Drug abuse

bethsroses's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Police brutality, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Genocide, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture

brookey8888's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Everything about this book is perfection. The political aspect, the slow uprising, the alliances. I just really love the characters and I forgot how funny Finnick and Joanna are. I love the slow realization that katniss comes to about the President and the capital as well as the uprising. Also how sweet Peeta is during all the moments of stress and violence. I also love how their relationship forms. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Blood, Classism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Violence

emzilia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Getting through my first reread of the series since I read them years ago. So much I had forgotten, and just like the first novel, so so so easy to read, the pages turned themselves. 

Suzanne Collins is a master with her words, and I pray to the gods I don’t believe in that she releases a new work separate from this world of Panem. Not that I am sick of the Hunger Games, but just to be able to read more of her writing. 

One aspect that did grate on me a little was the way Katniss’ obliviousness and staunchness was conveyed. Not that these are bad flaws to give a protagonist, but that I wish it was written out more as an unreliable narration and not dramatic irony. In my opinion the reader could too easily see through Katniss’ flawed assessment of many moments. It was done SO WELL when the wire snapped and Katniss was genuinely confused about Joanna and the situation at large.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Slavery

brittanyrader13's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Grief, and Police brutality

Minor: Addiction, Cannibalism, Drug abuse, Torture, and Vomit

valereads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This is definitely the weakest book in the trilogy. I did not finish this book the first time I attempted to read the series and I had many of the same problems on this read through.

I'll begin with the positives; I appreciate the way Collins discusses how the trauma from the events of the first book has affected the protagonists and the accurate and thoughtful way it is portrayed (with a couple of exceptions). In addition the feeling of hopelessness Collins creates in the reader even when you know where the series is going, felt real and all-consuming in parts of the first half.

The pacing of this book was off. The first half was boring and tedious, enough that I gave up 1/3 of the way in on my first read through. The second half is much more fast paced but forgettable and never seems to be going anywhere until the end and the ending was weak.

Continuing from the first book, the romantic relationships were once again one of the weakest aspects of this novel. The only reason I do not consider them the weakest part overall is because the rest of this book was lacking.

Honestly, I can't say I recommend this book unless you really want to read on to Mockingjay.

Content warnings: animal death, death, gore, violence, medical content, police brutality, violence, addiction, alcoholism, animal cruelty, child death, ableism, drug abuse, drug use, slavery, suicidal thoughts, torture

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Ableism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Toxic relationship

This book makes a study of the effects of PTSD.

kaylamoran's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I think Catching Fire might be my favourite of the Hunger Games trilogy.  I'll probably never be able to tell you because I can't find my copy of book one anywhere so I likely won't be rereading it 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Police brutality, Vomit, and Slavery