Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

The Second Book of the Hunger Games

Pia 

l'ree<3

"You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick.

"No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively.

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making me need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

She gives me a look filled with loathing, like I'm the biggest drag possible on her life. I wonder if this is what it's like to have an older sister who really hates you.

"So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.

"Come on, then," I say, pulling him into my room.

"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back, but I don't quite catch it.

When a sick or dying person is brought to her... this is the only time I think my mother knows who she is.

At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better.

"No. But for me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand," he says.

Micah Sarile

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it. 

Reagan

I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and water. They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

We order a bunch of food, grab some blankets, and head up to the roof for a picnic. A daylong picnic in the flower garden that tinkles with wind chimes. We eat. We lie in the sun. I snap off hanging vines and use my newfound knowledge from training to practice knots and weave nets. Peeta sketches me. We make up a game with the force field that surrounds the roof - one of us throws an apple into it and the other person has to catch it.

 one bothers us. By late afternoon, I lie with my head on Peeta's lap, making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair, claiming he's practicing his knots. After a while, his hands go still. "What?" I ask.

"I wish I could freeze this moment, right her, right now, and live in it forever," he says.

Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints of his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I feel so warm and relaxed and beyond worrying about a future I'll never have, I just let the word slip out. "Okay."

I can hear the smile in his voice. "Then you'll allow it?"

And the more I come to know these people, the worse it is. Because, on the whole, I don't hate them. And some I like. And a lot of them are so damaged that my natural instinct would be to protect them. But all of them must die if I'm to save Peeta.

In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking only of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

Kaitlyn Kuehn 

"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.”

“Everybody seems to know my secrets before I know them myself."

"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him you know."

“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

"But you’ve got to go through it to get to the end of it.” 

PEETA MELLARK IS THE MF BLUEPRINT!!! and these books still hit hard after almost ten years 

mary katherine

“My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I’m okay once I realize you’re here.”

Hope14 

Jagoda

Haymitch supremacy>>>

"You're the mockingjay Katniss, you're the revolution."

Literal chills😩

Caitlin Wellham

Catching Fire (The Second Book of The Hunger Games): Foil Edition

Book 2 (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

So many emotions that this book gave me while reading it. I personally like this book the best among the trilogy.

Dani T

The second book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out ... and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. Then comes the cruellest twist: the contestants for the next Hunger Games are announced, and Katniss and Peeta are forced into the arena once more.

Lacy W

As you can see, I pretty much powered through this book and this series. It continues after Katniss and Peeta have won the Hunger Games. President Snow is not happy and takes Katniss' berry trick as an act of defiance and an invitation to start riots in his peaceful districts. 

In this book, Katniss is trying to live with what has happened in the arena. She is still in survival mode. To be honest though, I don't think she has ever even left survival mode. That girl is wound so tight, it would take years to break through that. The amount of therapy that girl needs though. It's amazing she is as functional as she is.

Anyway, not going to spoil the entire book and talk a lot of details but Peeta and Katniss have to go back into the arena with victors of previous Hunger Games from different districts. Katniss has to learn who the enemy really is and how she is going to get her and Peeta out of this one alive. 

We see Katniss grow a little more. She starts to see the grey area that I had talked about in my review of  The Hunger Games . There were parts were she really drove me mad, though. Like her treatment to Peeta and Gale. It's almost like she just uses him and he doesn't deserve that. I ship them so hard though, even though Katniss is kind of horrible to him. I also never liked that her and Gale were almost a thing. He is a good friend but I could never see them as anything more than friends. 

Sometimes, with middle books of series, it can fall kind of flat. Or they are just filler books to get you from point A to point B. This was not the case. There was action and intrigue and all that good stuff in this book as well. It definitely sets the scene for the last book.

Susan 

If it wasn't for the fact I already had the third book, I'd be so upset with the ending! 

This one took a little bit to get into but once I was hooked, I didn't want to put it down. Again, I knew some of what happen from watching the films when they first came out, but I remembered so little. I honestly can't believe I never finished reading these books before. 

Now onto the final book!

Just as good as the first book. So much love for Katniss and Peeta 🥺

Looking forward to binge reading the last book. 

emma chaffey

Just as good as the first book. So much love for Katniss and Peeta 🥺

Looking forward to binge reading the last book. 

Ashley

Colette Miller

Is it just me or is Katniss totally clueless????

Sonia

3.5/5

at first it was slow but after the first few chapters i couldn’t stop reading

Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And 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 fueled an unrest that 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.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.

The Hunger Games #2

This is my favorite book of the series and makes me completely fall in love with Katniss. She is fragmented and detached from the girl she used to be and the life she used to lead. The connection and bond she has with Peeta and Haymitch because of their shared experience in the Games is really telling here. This book also solidifies how Katniss is meant for Peeta rather than Gale. With Gale, it seems like Katniss feels an obligation to what could have been had she not been so impacted by the Games. But with Peeta, he represents the patience and peace that she now needs after the Games, and Peeta is one of the few places she can find that as the uprising begins, which makes his loss so much more devastating. 

Jenna Thornton

Abdullah

What a ride this book was. The pacing is so perfect. The writing is so easy to go through. Peeta's better in this book than the previous one. It's so dark and gruesome sometimes and still manages to be funny and normal. Instant favourite. Excited to read Mockingjay.

Again 4*'s! I loved this so much! (I feel like it would have been 5 if I hadn't've seen the movie first bc I wouldn't know what was comingggg) 

But yeah I listened to it whilst doing annotations today and it was actually so motivating. 

Also can I just...omg Finnick I love him :')

bella <3

brianna

It is a good continuation of the series. I personally don't love it quite as much as the first one, but Finnick gets introduced in this one. And I adore him.

natalie

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Claire Durand

Out of the three books I can confidently say that this one is my favourite. It’s almost like it’s a combination of the first and last ones, since there’s a little bit of the politics but also the games. I love Katniss as a character especially since you can see the thoughts forming in her head and the connections she makes. She can always tell the message that someone is trying to convey. The first section of this book touches on the trauma they encountered in the games and how it affected their lives, in the second section you get to kind of explore the other tributes as well as the capitol and see how they feel about the quarter quell. The games is one of my favourite games again because so much happens in such a short period of time. What they don’t really touch on in the movies is that the games only lasted like 3 days. So all of the deaths and trauma happens within 72 hours. You can also see how much Katniss cares about Peeta in this book, before she almost thinks of it like she has to save him or district 12 will hate her. But in this one she’s willing to sacrifice herself to save him which convinces the last remaining skeptics that she is in love with him.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. Nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Her longtime friend, Gale holds her at an icy distance, and Peeta has turned his back on her completely. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. 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. -- From book jacket.

henrique

“Catching Fire” is a worthy successor to the first book in the Hunger Games trilogy, and definitely does not disappoint when it comes to all its twists and turns, all the character building (specifically with some more minor characters) and, of course, a compelling unraveling to the continuations of the world’s story.

I honestly believe this book needed to exist as a bridge between the first and last book of the trilogy, as it introduces us to a rise in tension, new characters and much much more.

This is definitely great, welcome addition to the Hunger Games family.

Leah B

❐ Overall Rating 5⭐ | Narration 😍 = Amazing
❐ Narrated by Tatiana Maslany
❐ Listening Length: 11H 3M
❐ The Hunger Games #2
❐ Dystopian
❐ The Quarter Quell
❐ The spark of a revolution


  


This still holds up as one of my all-time favorite dystopian series. It is the series that started my love for this sub-genre of science fiction and I’m actually still drawn to these types of books today. 

The narration was once again top-notch and I highly recommend the special editions of these books with Tatiana Maslany’s narrating. I’m looking forward to listening to the final book in the series, soon.


🅒🅐🅦🅟🅘🅛🅔 9.93/❿
🅒haracters ￫ 10
🅐tmosphere ￫ 10
🅦riting ￫ 10
🅟lot ￫ 9.5
🅘ntrigue ￫ 10
🅛ogic ￫ 10
🅔njoyment ￫ 10

First half of the book was so boring but the ending made up for it👌

Catching Fire

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