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.
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