Catching Fire

 Book Review

Catching Fire

By Suzanne Collins

Do you like action and romance? Are you the kind of person who would take a book out to dinner with you and read it under the table it’s so stinking good? And one more question, do you like cheese buns made by the best dang cake decorator in The Seam? Well, this book will be just the perfect one for you. (But this is the second book, so I think you should read the first book before this.) Suzanne has brought the si-fi book to life with descriptions that will have you crying, cringing, and every once and awhile, you’ll have to put down the book so you can stop sobbing a take it  all in.

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When Katniss steps into her new home in the Victors Village, she thinks she is done with trying to kill other people for the Capital’s entertainment . She visits Peeta, a boy with blond hair that falls in waves over his head, and star crossed lover from the very start, even though she does not know it yet. She and her friend Gale, hunt for his family every sunday, even though Katniss can make rich with just a tiny bit of her fortune she got for winning the Hunger Games, a survival show and a fun game for the rich and snooty people in the Capital, Panem. And she tries hard to erase all the memories that still feed her nights dreams and taint her soul of The Hunger Games, but then the Quarter Quill comes. The Quarter Quill is every 25 years, and it is The Hunger Games with a twist, always unfair and always deadly.

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    Suzanne Collins has so much perfect writing that it was hard to choose just one to write about, but I think the best thing she did was really make Katniss and Peeta come alive, (Description) with her writing so it’s like a movie in your head. She also writes the book in the present tense so it’s like it’s happening then and there. She has an amazing way of describing the poisonous fog when she says,

The elusive rain shuts off suddenly, like the storm did last year in the arena.

Moments after it stops, I see fog sliding softly in from the direction of the recent downpour. Just a reaction. Cool rain on the steaming ground, I think. It continues to approach at a steady pace. Tendrils reach forward and then curl like fingers, as if they were pulling the rest behind them. Then I inhale, it seems out of place. Something sweet, no, sickly sweet, is in the air. I scream, trying to wake everyone up, and thats when my skin started to blister.

It just painted a picture in my mind that stayed there for a long time. And that’s just a taste of what will happen in, Catching Fire...

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I realized when I was reading Catching Fire that I loved si-fi and that I could keep up with new people easier than I thought I could. As soon as I started reading I was hooked and could not put the book down even when I was sleeping I had one hand on the book so when I woke up then I would not have to spend time looking for it.

Usually, when there are so many new and old characters in the book, I have to go back in the book to find out who they are. But in Catching fire, it was easier to remember them because Suzanne does such a good job at telling you about each and every person and creature it’s so easier to recall them. She also does a great job at making the characters come to life by giving them traits that make them stand out, like this

When I hear screams in the crowd, I think it’s because I must look stunning. Then I notice something is rising up around me. Smoke. From fire. Not the flickery stuff I wore last year in the chariot, but something much more real and devours my dress. I begin to panic as the smoke thickens. Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and the pearls clatter to the stage. Somehow I’m afraid to stop because my flesh doesn’t seem to be burning and I know Cinna must be behind whatever is happening. So I keep spinning and spinning. For a split second I’m gasping completely engulfed in flames. Then all at once, the fire is gone.

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This book is truly one of the best books ever. I would totally recemend this book to anyone from age 10 to 110, but this is not the book for the faint hearted. Remember that hundreds of people die in this book, (Some more dramaticly than others).

I think the message of this story is that even though you’re living a broken life, and you’re looking death in the face, fight as hard as you can, because it can always get better.

So after you read this book, you can answer all the questions that you are dying to ask. Sooooooo, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR???