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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

253 reviews

smartie_5748's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal death, Violence, and Alcoholism

Minor: Drug abuse

lqne's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Pregnancy, and Alcoholism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, War, Violence, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, and Genocide

ivi_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

It's rare for a second book of a trilogy to keep up the momentum of the first but this book did exactly that. We get to know the characters more in depth and find out more about the resistance in the districts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Medical content, Grief, Drug use, Classism, Murder, and Misogyny

a_wandering_thinker's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Torture, Child death, Police brutality, Alcohol, Blood, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Johanna and Finnick Oh The Things I Would Do For You.....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Police brutality, Death, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Genocide, Body horror, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Minor: Classism, Cursing, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Vomit, and War

ladybanecourt's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

✨4.5/5✨
More tense than the last book, for sure! The second book in the Hunger Games is a brilliant combination of deadly and tense, woven with intricate character motivations that really gets you. I just can't help but want a little more time with some characters because I got attached too, but still. Wonderful! Series definitely made its way to my heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, and Panic attacks/disorders

totallywickedruth333's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

isabelle_mary's review against another edition

dark inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is the perfect sequel and to ‘The Hunger Games’ and I could not put it down! Seeing the rise of the rebellion grow was so inspiring and it was written so realistically. The introduction of the past victors was cool and hearing their stories of how they won was also very cool to read. Joanna Mason will forever go down as one of my ALL TIME favorite hunger games characters and Finnick is also a plus.

The fact that this whole hunger games was part of the rebellion was amazing and how all of the tributes were in on it was so cool! I love how Katniss and Peeta didn’t know though and we find out what the plan was all along at the end.

Overall this book was amazing and I cannot wait to read the final book!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Blood, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Vomit, Violence, Torture, Pregnancy, and War

loveisabird's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

my god this book is a banger. was suzanne collins sent the story in a vision from god because i would believe that

she still very evidently has her limitations as a writer of prose and i still so desperately wish i could hand off the hunger games to any number of writers and say “write the exact same story but write it better.” but i can’t deny ms. collins was working on another level storywise with this one. worldbuilding is still strong, and the character work too. 

can’t wait to get to mockingjay, which i recall being received as a letdown of a finale when it was released in my circle (of 14 year olds). i have a sneaking suspicion that mockingjay should have been two books (meaning in a roundabout way that two movies was actually correct…) but we’ll see!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Murder, Animal death, Classism, Violence, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Addiction, Police brutality, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Vomit

paloverdepages's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I finished this book in a matter of hours. The first time I read it, I was much younger than Katniss. Now that I'm older, I can see how young and lifelike and nuanced she is. I don't know how Suzanne Collins does it, but it's so easy to see each character and fall in love with them immediately. Even the ones that we don't see for long, it's still meaningful when they're mentioned. I love the way she writes. 

I forgot

how little time we actually spend in the arena

. It's so jam-packed that I remembered it more than anything else. And Peeta! When he

mentioned the baby

, I could just barely see it coming in my memory and it still absolutely shook me! I love his dramatic ass TToTT

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Death

Minor: Vomit, Drug abuse, and Mental illness