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jaceySuzanne Collins: Catching Fire– Hunger Games #2
This carries on a few months aftter The Hunger Games left off. Katniss Everdeen won the last-man-standing, fight-for-your-life games, but she cheated by bringing Peeta Mellark through with her and backing the controllers into a corner. Where there should only have been one winner the controllers were forced to accept two and they aren't happy.
So despite having all the privileges of a winner, a nice house for her family back in District 12 and a regular supply of food, Katniss much watch her step because she is the irritation around which the pearl of a revolution might well grow.
As a victor she should be out of the Hunger Games for the rest of her life but President Snow changes the rules and the all the previous victors including Peeta Mellark, find themselves pitted against each other in the arena. Katniss' drunken mentor, Haymitch, is once more their lifeline outside the Arena and Haymitch and Kat have sworn to make sure Peeta survives this time, which means Katniss will not.
This has a rinse-and-repeat feel to part of it. I wonder whether the author originally envisioned a trilogy when she wrote the first book. In part it's almost telling the same story again, except this time the cracks in society are more obvious, and Katniss has experience on her side. But so do the others. They are all survivors.
But plans are afoot and the games don't have the same ending as last time as the districts head towards revolution. This second volume in the trilogu certyainly keep s up the pace and the tension. I've seen other reviews that complain about the depth of the worldbuilding but for a YA I think this is about right, leaving the reader to fill in the blanks.
This carries on a few months aftter The Hunger Games left off. Katniss Everdeen won the last-man-standing, fight-for-your-life games, but she cheated by bringing Peeta Mellark through with her and backing the controllers into a corner. Where there should only have been one winner the controllers were forced to accept two and they aren't happy.
So despite having all the privileges of a winner, a nice house for her family back in District 12 and a regular supply of food, Katniss much watch her step because she is the irritation around which the pearl of a revolution might well grow.
As a victor she should be out of the Hunger Games for the rest of her life but President Snow changes the rules and the all the previous victors including Peeta Mellark, find themselves pitted against each other in the arena. Katniss' drunken mentor, Haymitch, is once more their lifeline outside the Arena and Haymitch and Kat have sworn to make sure Peeta survives this time, which means Katniss will not.
This has a rinse-and-repeat feel to part of it. I wonder whether the author originally envisioned a trilogy when she wrote the first book. In part it's almost telling the same story again, except this time the cracks in society are more obvious, and Katniss has experience on her side. But so do the others. They are all survivors.
But plans are afoot and the games don't have the same ending as last time as the districts head towards revolution. This second volume in the trilogu certyainly keep s up the pace and the tension. I've seen other reviews that complain about the depth of the worldbuilding but for a YA I think this is about right, leaving the reader to fill in the blanks.
