When I saw the film trailer for The Hunger Games it was enough to grab my attention and to make me decide to purchase The Hunger Games books written by Suzanne Collins. There are three books and the second in the trilogy is called Catching Fire and will be the focus of my review today. Catching Fire is, as I mentioned, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy and it picks up on the lives of Katniss and Peeta as they adjust back to life in District 12 after The Hunger Games and begin to prepare for their victors tour of the other eleven Districts in Panem as winners of the games. What Katniss is relatively unaware of initially is the fact that her spur of ...  Read the complete review

Catching the Fire is the second book in the Hunger games trilogy written by Stephanie Collins, the books are aimed at young adults set in a dystopian world. The hunger games introduces us to Katniss Evergreen who lives in District 12, a district controlled by Panem a police state run by President Snow. Every year there is a hunger games; where 2 tributes are chosen from each district who fight to the death in a televised extravaganza, last year Katniss and her colleague Peeta play the star crossed line and both manage to survive the games. Catching the fire continues the story of Katniss and Peeta after the games; there actions in the games have sparked ...  Read the complete review

WARNING! This review contains spoilers for the first book in the series "The hunger games" After reading the first book in the series, i was really quite pleased that i had purchased the series of three books as a whole, as i was ready to find out what happened next straight away (unlike some books that i feel i have to take a break from first before continuing). The book starts weeks after the initial hunger games tornament, Katniss and Peeta have defied the Capitol by not playing by the rules after trying to both kill themselves in the arena, thus turning themselves into a tragic "Romeo and Juliet" couple, which the Capitol ...  Read the complete review

I recently wrote a review of the first book of the Hunger Games Trilogy and I couldn't recommend it highly enough. So, after finishing the first rather quickly, I launched straight into the second book in the trilogy: Catching Fire, the title based around the concept that Katniss Everdeen, the girl who survived the first Hunger Games is the fire, that is now causing havoc in the Capitol. When I first started this book, I somewhat expected it to be a let down, given how good the first one was. I expected it to drag, and to lose my attention quicker, but instead I found I couldn't put this one down either, and every spare second I had, usually when my ...  Read the complete review

Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. After reading the first book I was keen to find out what happened next so started reading Catching Fire pretty much immediately! Katniss and Peeta have both managed to survive the gruesome Hunger Games and are thus housed in special residence not far away from Haymitch, their mentor before and during the Games. Their families live a life of luxury, and gone are the days where Katniss wondered where her next meal would come from. But life after the Games is not exactly simple. Katniss and Peeta are under close observation and constant threat, especially as it is believed that their ...  Read the complete review