UEL English PEN Society Book Reviews

Catching Fire is the second book of The Hunger Games trilogy, starring Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. From reading this book I had a feeling Collins wanted to focus on a wider audience range and this book presented some pretty relevant issues revolving censorship (apart from the whole love triangle thing which I've hated with passion).
In my opinion, Catching Fire was a repetition of the first book, except for Katniss' weird emotionless behaviour (although that's what probably happens to every winner of The Hunger Games). Katniss is seen as a threat to The Capitol as she was the most rebellious person The Hunger Games has ever encountered, from volunteering to take place in the games instead of her sister, to her and Peeta almost taking poisonous berries, which would result in The Hunger Games having no victor at all. The Capitol is afraid that people from other districts will see her as a rebel and join her.
This book is all about Capitol's struggles to control the rebellion, which is why they force victors from ALL the Hunger Games into the arena, to fight until once again only one victor is crowned.There are some twists in the plot of course, which I won't discuss as I wouldn't want to spoil it, but this book was pretty much a repetition of the first one.

Saying that, I do want to see how they'll turn this book into a movie, as the new Hunger Games arena was pretty cleverly designed and is definitely going to be a challenge to recreate.

Until next time and may the odds be ever in your favor,

xoxo Mandy