Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)

After the 74th Hunger Games, one of the most remarkable games ever, there is an uprising in District eight.

An uprising is when a district try's to fight against the Capital for forcing it to do things, like participate in the Hunger Games. One other district did this, District 13, which got destroyed by the capital, proving that the Capital has all the power.

Meanwhile, things get complicated for the victors (winners of the 74th Hunger Games) because now they have to prove to the president of the Capital that they are in love, which involves getting married, when they are not truly in love.

The Capital seems to be angry at the Districts because they are being even cruller to them as usual. The Peacekeeps (who try to prevent uprisings) are being forced to be cruel to the people who live in the districts or they will become Avox's (slaves to the Capital who get their tongs ripped out).

Every 25 years' of the Hunger Games a Quelf is held. A Quelf makes the Hunger Games have a twist to it. The 1st Quelf (25th anniversary of the Hunger Games) had it so a draw was held to see who the tributes were. The 2nd Quelf (the 50th anniversary of the Hunger Games) had twice as many Tributes. The 3nd Quelf is this year, and this twist may change everything about the Hunger Games forever.

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The first half of this book is so dumb and pointless! But then there is a major twisted in the plot and then it gets really good.

The ending is really confusing, I had to read the last 2 pages twice before I figured out what it means...Let’s just say, the last book is already loaded on my kindle and is ready to be read.

I really liked the last half of this book because I had no idea how it was going to end- the first one, you could figure out the ending after the second part- you could not for this one. I thought I knew how it would end, but I was wrong.

However, the first half was totally pointless! Nothing exciting happened! It had hardly anything to do with the last part of the novel. It seemed like the author was trying to add characterization, but failed.

The suspense it this novel was even better then it the first book, but the emotional setting was very week. Personally, I did not mind too much, but I can understand why someone would not like this book because of it.

It is a good thing the last half was so good, or else it would have been a bad book.

4.6 out of 5 stars.