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I'm lost between thinking 5 stars might be a hair too many and 4 isn't quite enough but bottom line and needless to say, I love this series and all the hype is in this case warranted.
I'm not going to recount the plot because I'm one of the last people in the Goodreads-verse to crack the spine on this, clearly. In brief: the Capitol is angry about the last Games, the districts are rebelling, President Snow is a bastard, more muttations, Quarter Quell, power to the fence. I'd like instead to highl ...more
I'm not going to recount the plot because I'm one of the last people in the Goodreads-verse to crack the spine on this, clearly. In brief: the Capitol is angry about the last Games, the districts are rebelling, President Snow is a bastard, more muttations, Quarter Quell, power to the fence. I'd like instead to highl ...more
The second book in the trilogy, which in my opinion, does not disappoint. Catching Fire takes the reader directly to what happens next after the end of the Hunger Games, the first book in the series.
Some have criticized this book as providing the reader with more of the same as the first book. Respectfully, I disagree. Although some of the premises aren't new, Collins manages to breathe fresh life into their details. I listened to this one on audio. The reader of the book wasn't very good, but I ...more
Some have criticized this book as providing the reader with more of the same as the first book. Respectfully, I disagree. Although some of the premises aren't new, Collins manages to breathe fresh life into their details. I listened to this one on audio. The reader of the book wasn't very good, but I ...more
This book was my favorite of the trilogy, I think. I realized while I was reading it that Katniss's personality reminds me a lot of the protagonist in one of the most beloved books of my adolescence: Meg, in The President's Daughter (and White House Autumn, and a couple of other sequels I didn't discover until last year).
I do find it difficult to get interested in the love triangle in this series. Maybe because they are all teenagers. Maybe because Katniss is so (understandably) prickly and dist ...more
I do find it difficult to get interested in the love triangle in this series. Maybe because they are all teenagers. Maybe because Katniss is so (understandably) prickly and dist ...more
This shit is crazy!
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The second of the Hunger Games trilogy seems to have lost some the urgency that I experienced in the first book. I'll still go on to the finale. Still an interesting and thought-provoking tale. (Put in this situation, what would I do? How would I play this "game"?)
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9/28/2009: This sequel was good but not nearly as good as the first book in the series. I'm not sure what I was expecting but the book definitely took some twists and turns that I didn't see coming. Overall, I enjoyed the book but missed the feeling that The Hunger Games gave me while reading it - that seat of your pants adventure that you don't want to put down for anything. That wasn't here in this book. Again, overall, it was good, but not as good as the first book. I am eager to read the nex
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The first book was better. This one kept me hanging just enough to have to buy the next one.
8.15.10 - 8.18.10
Re-reading in anticaption of the release of Mockingjay ... the wait is almost over!
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update: Finished!! Loved this more than The Hunger Games. It's going to be agony waiting for #3.
Loving this one more than The Hunger Games. I'm feeling edgy and tense as I read.
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Re-reading in anticaption of the release of Mockingjay ... the wait is almost over!
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update: Finished!! Loved this more than The Hunger Games. It's going to be agony waiting for #3.
Loving this one more than The Hunger Games. I'm feeling edgy and tense as I read.
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So. Good. I'm glad the next one is coming out in a few weeks!
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Also read 9/29/2009
Worthy successor to The Hunger Games and another wonderful read by Carolyn McCormack. Just have to get ahold of part three now because the end was a major cliffhanger.
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What a great read! The story definately keeps you interested. Sometimes I yelled at the book because it is a cruel world that they are thrown into.
The writer makes you like (or dislike) the characters.
This series is a quick, easy read with a catching story.
The writer makes you like (or dislike) the characters.
This series is a quick, easy read with a catching story.
For the second book in a trilogy it was a real page turner.
reread again-- march 2013
Reread March 2012-- just as good as the first round.
Reread March 2012-- just as good as the first round.
Better than the first!
