
Catching Fire
Book 2 of The Hunger Games
- 400 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2009
- 118 editions
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1 About this book
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen 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 that 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.
- Fantasy
- Survival
- Dystopian fiction
- Courage
- Science fiction
- Survival Stories
- Survival skills
- Wilderness survival
2 What to expect
The second Hunger Games novel begins after the Games, as unrest spreads through the districts and the Capitol tries to use Katniss to calm it. Rebellion, state control and what people will sacrifice for each other are the themes. The first half is slower and more political, the second returns to fast survival action, and much is left unresolved for the final book. Read The Hunger Games first.
Good for readers who want: dystopian adventure, a rebellion story, and the next chapter of the Hunger Games.
3 About Suzanne Collins
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