Catching fire By: Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire is an absolutely stunning book. One thing you should know first, this is the second book in a series. If you want to understand it you have to read the Hunger Games beforehand. Once you read that and Catching Fire you can proceed to read Mockingjay. All three books are astounding and a good read. Ok, on to the book review!

To begin with, In Hunger Games there is 12 districts. Every year a boy and girl from the ages 12-18 from each district are chosen for the Hunger Games. The games are simple, all the kids (tributes) go into a giant arena that can be any climate, size or weather and fight to the death. The last person alive wins and is showered with rewards for the rest of their lives. Horrible right? Anyway, Katniss, the main character defies the Capital (the people who make the games) by having two people win the games instead of one. She doesn't meant to but the Capital takes this as a rebellion. This is what Catching Fire is.

Every 25th Hunger game they do something special/even more awful called the Quarter Quell. SPOILER ALERT!!!!! This Quarter Quell, previous winners of the games are going back in the arena to fight against each other. As you might guess, Katniss is chosen to go back in. The rest is kind of about her in the games and with the help of friends trying to rebel against the Capital. I'll leave the rest for you to read if you haven't already.END OF SPOILER.

I thought this book was written brilliantly. It has plenty of action with a little romance mixed in. I especially like the very, very ending. You would never see it coming in a million years but it happens anyway. I think kind of what the author is trying to say in this book for the most part is that authority is not always right. Just because they are in charge of everybody and they decide what you can and can't do they aren't always doing the best thing for everybody. I don't think putting kids in a fight to the death is exactly good for the people, you don't do you?

All in all I thought the book was great. There are no issues that I think the author should have done differently or changed. It was paced well and had a lot of surprises thrown at you. You never got very bored and it was hard to put it down. I would definitely recomend this to anybody that has read Hunger Games. I hereby declare this book as an A+.