After I finished Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, I ran up my stairs to my mothers room and grabbed Mockingjay to start reading, I was captivated by the story of Peeta, Katniss, and Gale and their hopes to bring down the Capitol.
When you leave Catching Fire, Katniss finds out after she has been saved by the rebels the Capitol has bombed District 12, her mother, Prim her sister and Gale and his family have survived with around 800 other people, everyone else has died in the fires.
Katniss is grief stricken and asks to go see District 12 once she has recovered. She finds her home in ruins and the victor homes still in places. She takes things that are hers and her mothers along with Prims cat, along with finding a white rose.
The rose is from president Snow, he is said to have lived in a room full of roses to mask the smell of his decaying form after taking poison. Katniss is sick and leaves quickly.
While in District 13, Katniss rebels against the Districts rules and regulations, choosing to wander, sleep, and not do what she is supposed to do. You get an inside look on how she is feeling about Gale and Peeta. Peeta is still being held by the Capitol and being brainwashed into thinking Katniss the enemy.
Mockingjay keeps you in the world Katniss lives in till the very end, this trilogy shows you how the world is like after years of war, and even then war is continued through the Capitol and the rebels. Katniss is never the same after this, she is a different person, different being, and a different soul after everything has happened. The end of Mockingjay will shock you and please you at the same time, it puts you to rest over the plot of the book and essentially has a good ending, it doesn't leave you wanting more, it gives you what you need and enough to think about it after.
I would recommend this trilogy to anyone, it has everything. A love triangle, action, suspense, mystery, betrayal, political issues, sci fyi, fantasy, realism, and all in young girls point of view.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Catching Fire By Suzanne Collins
I finished Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins yesterday and I was floored! Such a great second to the Hunger Games.
Katniss is trying very hard to keep President Snow from thinking she was trying to rebel by not killing Peeta in the Hunger Games, she has to keep up pretenses that she is in love with Peeta and not Gale (which we find out she really isn't...romantically at least) Katniss doesn't realize that she is in fact in love with Peeta and tries her hardest to keep up the act.
When the Quell Games come up, Snow shocks everyone and says this year the Quell Games will be with past victors...which means Katniss, Peeta and Haymitch are in the running for going back to the arena.
Peeta tries his hardest to get all of them to train and be like the Careers. When the Reaping comes, Katniss and Haymitch are chosen, but Peeta volunteers for Haymitch...oh course.
The Quell Games go on like the Hunger Games did, but this time Katniss joined up with some fellow tributes and they figure out the point of this arena and try to kill the rest of the tributes.
It never gets that far, one of the allies knocks Katniss out, cutting her arm and leaving her, Katniss wakes up in a hover craft.
There was a conspiracy the whole time Katniss and Peeta were in the Hunger Games and when they were the first two victors, Haymitch kept this from them, he saved Katniss, and the other tributes Katniss had allied. Peeta was taken by the Capitol and Katniss cant handle this.
She is labeled as mentally unstable when she arrives at District 13, they live underground in secrecy.
They plan for Katniss to be the Mockingjay, the symbol the people of all the districts as the rebellion against the Capitol.
Overall the book was fantastic, I finished Mockingjay the same day because I couldn't put it down.
The ending of Catching Fire makes you want to read Mockingjay even more, you want to find out what happens between Katniss, Peeta, and Gale along with the downfall of the Capitol and how everything ends.
Katniss is trying very hard to keep President Snow from thinking she was trying to rebel by not killing Peeta in the Hunger Games, she has to keep up pretenses that she is in love with Peeta and not Gale (which we find out she really isn't...romantically at least) Katniss doesn't realize that she is in fact in love with Peeta and tries her hardest to keep up the act.
When the Quell Games come up, Snow shocks everyone and says this year the Quell Games will be with past victors...which means Katniss, Peeta and Haymitch are in the running for going back to the arena.
Peeta tries his hardest to get all of them to train and be like the Careers. When the Reaping comes, Katniss and Haymitch are chosen, but Peeta volunteers for Haymitch...oh course.
The Quell Games go on like the Hunger Games did, but this time Katniss joined up with some fellow tributes and they figure out the point of this arena and try to kill the rest of the tributes.
It never gets that far, one of the allies knocks Katniss out, cutting her arm and leaving her, Katniss wakes up in a hover craft.
There was a conspiracy the whole time Katniss and Peeta were in the Hunger Games and when they were the first two victors, Haymitch kept this from them, he saved Katniss, and the other tributes Katniss had allied. Peeta was taken by the Capitol and Katniss cant handle this.
She is labeled as mentally unstable when she arrives at District 13, they live underground in secrecy.
They plan for Katniss to be the Mockingjay, the symbol the people of all the districts as the rebellion against the Capitol.
Overall the book was fantastic, I finished Mockingjay the same day because I couldn't put it down.
The ending of Catching Fire makes you want to read Mockingjay even more, you want to find out what happens between Katniss, Peeta, and Gale along with the downfall of the Capitol and how everything ends.
Monday, December 26, 2011
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I finally gave into reading The Hunger Games, I bought the boxed set from work and set on reading The Hunger Games, which is book one.
The book is written incredibly well. Suzanne Collins knows how to be descriptive without sounds childish or cluttered.
S. Collins sets up the atmosphere for the novel(s) instantly. You get this whole new world where there are 12 districts after the world we know has failed, and that The Capitol, a dictatorship in its finest, and that ages ago district 13 rebelled and was destroyed.
The Hunger Games are an event The Capitol has set up to show all the districts that if they rebel like District 13, they will be punished.
Katniss Everdeen is the main female character and resides in district 12 with her mother and younger sister.
Peeta Mellark is the male tribute for District 12.
On a day each year, names are drawn for one male and one female "tribute" to represent District 12. The number of names are determined for each year eligible and you are able to put your name in more for basic needs. District 12 is a poorer coal mining district, many children have their names in the pool dozens of times.
Without giving away anymore, The Hunger Games are a fight to the death battle with the 2 tributes from each district killing one another till one is left and is the victor.
An adventure, dramatic, thoughtful novel with 2 more novels after continuing the story, this book is not one to be missed. I have started Catching Fire, and I will review that as well, it is just as good as the first if not better, with a different plot it is hard to put down.
I finally gave into reading The Hunger Games, I bought the boxed set from work and set on reading The Hunger Games, which is book one.
The book is written incredibly well. Suzanne Collins knows how to be descriptive without sounds childish or cluttered.
S. Collins sets up the atmosphere for the novel(s) instantly. You get this whole new world where there are 12 districts after the world we know has failed, and that The Capitol, a dictatorship in its finest, and that ages ago district 13 rebelled and was destroyed.
The Hunger Games are an event The Capitol has set up to show all the districts that if they rebel like District 13, they will be punished.
Katniss Everdeen is the main female character and resides in district 12 with her mother and younger sister.
Peeta Mellark is the male tribute for District 12.
On a day each year, names are drawn for one male and one female "tribute" to represent District 12. The number of names are determined for each year eligible and you are able to put your name in more for basic needs. District 12 is a poorer coal mining district, many children have their names in the pool dozens of times.
Without giving away anymore, The Hunger Games are a fight to the death battle with the 2 tributes from each district killing one another till one is left and is the victor.
An adventure, dramatic, thoughtful novel with 2 more novels after continuing the story, this book is not one to be missed. I have started Catching Fire, and I will review that as well, it is just as good as the first if not better, with a different plot it is hard to put down.
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