Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, 391 pages

Rereading this series gave me a new appreciation of Catching Fire.  Everything I love about Hunger Games is here but sharper and deeper. The stakes are high and always feel so real. You know people will die, but it's still a shock when they actually do, especially when Collins doesn't give us time to sit with the death. My favorite part is the end, because even though it's horrific and devastating, it rings true. 

This is also my first time reading the series after reading Sunrise on the Reaping, which brings series gravitas to the events. 

 

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - 391 pages

Against all odds Katniss 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 the Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.
Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest 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.