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A solid sequel.

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Catching Fire is the second book in The Hunger Games series and it's just as good, if not better than the first novel in the series, The Hunger Games.

In this book we follow Katniss Everdeen and her cast of returning allies and antagonists, as well as new characters that shouldn't be judged at first introduction. This book was action packed and the suspense was ever growing. 

I remember enjoying this the first time I read it over 10 years ago, and now that I've read it again I love it just as much as I did back then.  I can't wait to dive back into the third book, Mockingjay. 


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katniss is actually so funny bc one minute she’s convincing herself she doesn’t love peeta and the next she’s talking about how much she loves his eyelashes like GIRL???? how repressed are you 

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This sequel! SO. GOOD. I still cannot believe I have never read this trilogy before. The pacing is amazing. Reads like a train we say in Dutch and we'll it really does. Like on of those high-speed ones that just don't stop because it's hard to put these books down. 
Though I will say, I'm fully convinced Katniss is on the ace-aro spectrum.
Like first of all, she's been faking the whole thing with Peeta and feels barely anything about it except for it being a great strategy. They have a few real moments, but nothing that really stands out to me as romantic. Secondly, I feel like she wants us to think she's torn between Gale and Peeta. But we, the reader, don't really know Gale and her time with him. It's making it hard to see anything romantic between them. Whereas with Peeta we do see them together so much, yet Katniss is only thinking of how to use him to her advantage. 
Anyways just my thoughts on that.
I love these books and I'm so excited to read the final one.

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I loved the first book in this series and was eager to carry on with this. I wanted to read this book because I love the rest of the 2012 – 2016 dystopian books including Divergent, Twilight, The Maze Runner and the Mortal Instruments. I wish I had read these during the hype of my childhood but I thoroughly enjoyed this book as a young adult.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all she has returned to her family and her best friend Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at arm length and Peeta has turned his back on her completely. Also there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol – a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fuelled an unrest she’s afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol’s cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can’t prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. This book is a young adult dystopia fiction.

I enjoyed this storyline and it was so action-packed but also romance and you didn’t know where it was going. I would have LOVED multiple POVs especially with the ending chapters because then we would have known what the inside plan was, but I also liked the big reveal and Katniss’s shock and thoughts. Again, I love Katniss – she is in the group of kick-ass women who I want to be and how strong I want to be.

The book left you with enough drama that it didn’t feel rushed but also left you wanting more that it keeps you hook to read the next book. I don’t believe they isn’t any weakness to this book I just don’t think it’s going to be the best of the series and it took me a while to get into. I would recommend this to anyone who likes kick-ass girls, fantasy novel and dystopian novels. I cannot wait to read the next book of the series. 

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as a kid, i thought this was the best of the trilogy, and i still think i’m right. the exploration of katniss’ trauma is fully realized and the beginning of the uprisings feels realistic to the established universe. there are SOME contrivances, but they keep the story moving at a brisk pace, so they can mostly be disregarded.

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