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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

70 reviews

wallflovver's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Vomit, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcoholism

martereadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Slavery, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Drug use

sudatot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Death of parent

jay_jade736's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.75

My review might contain spoilers so be warned‼️‼️

Things I liked about the book:

•Peeta/Haymitch/Katniss trio dynamic
The reason why I'm putting this here is that it sets up a big twist in the end of the book that creates a BIG emotional turmoil and development in the third book 

•Katniss' Mom finally has character!!
Rather than Katniss telling what she does, her mom actually does the nursing!! Yehey!!!

*Gale
Although I dislike him, he actually has use here and sets up Katniss questioning her morality not just in this book but in the third book as well 

Things I did not like:

•The "I'm not like any other girls" is really annoying. I don't want to say the pages but it is highlighted on 3 pages 

•I think as tho as Katniss in this book has gotten dumb. She has gotten so reckless to the point of not thinking that the government won't punish her family

•The whole subplot for love was stupid to me. I know that Suzanne was forced to add it but still

•There was this whole chapter/s about the victors being friendly with one another and while it is the last time they can be friendly with one another...since alot of them will die, I just think it should not have been added if there wasn't even a single emotional turmoil

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Deadnaming

madflatt's review against another edition

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Classism, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

lucilaroife's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, and Gun violence

paularize's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

5.0

middle book syndrome who? I only know the best book of the hunger games trilogy

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

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

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

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