Catching Fire
Series: The hunger games #2
Genre: Dystopian
Published: September 2009
Book Description (from Good Reads): Against all odds, Katniss 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 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 in the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before...and surprising readers at every turn.
Thoughts:
There is a lot of emotional drama: relationships, unrequited affection, unforeseen consequences of desperate life-saving acts. So yeah there is a lot of drama, in itself, the plot is not complicated, we have a lot of planning and character development in the way that people try to stay alive, again!
A lot of people have seen the movie or read the book, this is my favorite book. This reread was done again in Spanish, and it does feel like there are slight differences because of the translation ... or maybe because there are some of my favorite lines that do not feel the same in Spanish.... But I still love the drama that issues in this installment.
The relationship between Katniss and Peeta comes to develop a bit more with them both trying to be more truthful to one another. Peeta is the most dedicated man you could possibly find, even if the interest and unrelenting devotion to Katniss are not explained at all.
There are planning for a rebellion, there are powerful political issues but the story is not invested in that, but instead, it focuses on Peeta and Katniss playing their love story. This makes it even more annoying to have Katniss thorn between not wanting to decide if she cares about Peeta or Gale. Personally, not a fan of it but it is done good enough to still be enjoyable.
I will be very honest, from what you can see so far, I cannot be objective in any of the books I have read growing up, nostalgia and enjoyment as reading overshadows everything. I really need to work on that, but not now :)
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