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Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

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Series: The Hunger Games (2)

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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.
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  Presagios | Nov 27, 2023 |
This is a sequel that is just as good or better than the first book. I pay this book the highest compliment: I couldn’t put this story down and kept wanting to turn the page. The embers of a revolution start here.

For the longest, we have known Katniss and Gale's distaste of the Capitol, but we finally get other characters with the same viewpoint as well.

Touching on the romantic element briefly, I still prefer Gale with Katniss, but I love how Peeta is the epitome of kindness isn't a weakness. But sometimes, he could tone down the confessions of his undying love. Way to guilt her to love you, bruh. The love triangle never gets in the way and enters and departs smoothly when the book calls for extra drama.
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  DestDest | Nov 26, 2023 |
I guess anyone reading this has already read and enjoyed The Hunger Games, so I won't bother describing it. Personally, I enjoyed this slightly more than its predecessor. The first book had a simple purity of teenagers just trying to murder each other, whereas this one has much more back story and exposition, which worked well and filled out the dystopian future world just enough.

The climax was a touch rushed and even a little confusing, but it's set up very nicely for the last book.

Enjoyable, for those (like me) who quite like this kind of thing.
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
TikTok made me buy it! The second book in the international No.1 bestselling series (Hunger Games Trilogy 2)
  Ardscoil | Nov 23, 2023 |
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  Law_Books600 | Nov 3, 2023 |
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Collins has done that rare thing. She has written a sequel that improves upon the first book. As a reader, I felt excited and even hopeful: could it be that this series and its characters were actually going somewhere?
added by Shortride | editThe New York Times Book Review, Gabrielle Zevin (Oct 11, 2009)
 
The author describes her wearing a series of Cher-worthy costumes in which she confronts poisonous mists, deranged monkeys, and a flock of ''candy pink'' birds equipped with long beaks used to skewer human necks. Great stuff, this. Unfortunately, such startling apparitions too quickly appear and disappear, baubles randomly affixed to a story that's been stretched to gossamer thinness.
added by Shortride | editEntertainment Weekly, Jennifer Reese (Aug 26, 2009)
 
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Collins, Suzanne—primary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bützow, HeleneTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fournier, GuillaumeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hörl, HannaIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hachmeister, SylkeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Jonsson, LenaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Klöss, PeterTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Koschny, MariaSprechersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
McCormick, CarolynNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
O'Brien, TimCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Parisi, Elizabeth B.Designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Põhjala, PriitToimetaja.secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Postema, Maria—secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ramírez Tello, PilarTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schapel, EvelinTÕlkija.secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schierbeck, CamillaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Tello, Pilar RamirezTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Timmerman, SiiriKujundaja.secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Yanar, Sevinç Tezcan—secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Canonical title
Catching Fire
Original title
Catching Fire
Alternative titles
Original publication date
2009-09-01
People/Characters
Katniss Everdeen
Peeta Mellark
Gale Hawthorne
Coriolanus Snow
Haymitch Abernathy
Important places
District 12
The Capitol
Panem (fictional)
The Arena
The Seam, District 12
Important events
75th Annual Hunger Games
Quarter Quell
Related movies
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013 | IMDb)
Epigraph
Dedication
For my parents,
Jane and Michael Collins,

and my parents-in-law,
Dixie and Charles Pryor
First words
I clasp the flask between my hands, even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air.
Quotations
As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
King, Stephen
Meyer, Stephenie
Green, John
Original language
English
Canonical DDC/MDS
813.6
Canonical LCC
PZ7.C6837
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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.
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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.
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Katniss and Peeta
fight the odds once again, but
rebellion's afoot.
(passion4reading)

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813.6Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 21st Century

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PZ7.C6837Language and Literature › Fiction and juvenile belles lettres › Fiction and juvenile belles lettres › Juvenile belles lettres

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