A short review of the book.

District 12 is celebrating the return of Katniss, Peeta, and Haymitch, victors of the 74th annual Hunger Games. Yet, the celebration rings hollow for Katniss who knows her final act of defiance in the arena has made her a target for the Capitol. Unrest is stirring within the districts while the Capitol seeks revenge on the face of the rebellion: Katniss. Relationships are shifting, tension is mounting, and retaliation is threatening in Catching Fire, the second book in Suzanne Collins’ thrilling dystopian series, The Hunger Games.

Storyline

The 74th annual Hunger Games has ended and the victory belongs to Katniss and Peeta. Despite the excitement and celebration of District 12 there is an underlying feeling that the Capitol will find a way to curtail any threat of rebellion. Katniss knows her defiance has lit the kindling of something greater than herself and she is ever alert and anxious about her surroundings.

Attempting to bring some normalcy to her pre-Hunger Games existence, Katniss describes daily life as, “I hunt. He (Peeta) bakes. Haymitch drinks,” but simplicity is not meant to be hers. Katniss returns home to find her relationships with Peeta and Gale strained and confusing. She is trapped between wanting her independence and submitting to her status as the symbol of a rebellion. To further complicate her life, Katniss receives an unexpected visit from President Snow who advises Katniss to calm the uprising. He issues thinly disguised threats warning her that if she cannot stop the rapidly growing revolution, then those she loves most will be killed.

Sixteen-year- old Katniss must now decide if she’s willing to lead an uprising against the oppressive, volatile, and dangerous Capitol or continue a charade that would require her to marry Peeta and for the remainder of her life worry about the threat of the Capitol. Although she wants to run away, Katniss ultimately decides to protect her loved ones by becoming engaged to Peeta and continuing on with the victory tour. Despite her attempts to appease the Capitol, she is unable to stop the districts’ increasing demonstrations of rebellion.

In a surprising change of events, the Capitol announces that for the 75th annual Hunger Games, there will be a reuniting of past victors. Once again Katniss and Peeta are thrown back into the arena where they must fight to the death, and this time their defiance will not be in question.

Catching Fire sets the stage for a major uprising against the Capitol and solidifies Katniss’s role as the symbol of the rebellion. In this second installment of the exciting series, readers will finally learn more about the twisted plots of the Capitol, understand the mystery of District 13, and see a clear development of a love triangle.

Author: Suzanne Collins


Sorce:
http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/5youngadultbooks/fr/Catching-Fire-By-Suzanne-Collins-Book-Review.htm

Visit this pages for more information about The Hunger Games and Catching Fire

http://www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/

http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/

http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire

Enjoy!

One of the charactes

Effie Trinket is a escort for district twelve.
She is responseble for drawing two persons for the competitions that has been.
Then she escorts the two drawn person to the competition ans she is also escorting them where ever they are going to go.
She is responseble for the two she drawn.
She is always dressed in strange colours.
she doesnt have a big part in the book but you will notice her when you read about her, she stands out!

What I read today

Wiress got killed by one of the opponents a guy named Gloss then Kattnis killed Gloss. A eartquake the explosion of the eartquake is huge. She lays on the ground a long time. Kattnis are in chock and she wonders if the others are okey. Then suddenly a hovercraft pics her up. She makes up in a unfamiliar place. She finds a neel to use as a weapon when she is looking for Peeta. She doesnt know where she is. She hears a conversation between Plutarch,Finnick and Haymitch. Finnick sounds upset. Plutarch and Haymitch tries to calm him down. The conversation is about Kattnis and how many at the arena promised that they should protect Kattnis and Peeta. When Kattnis hears the conversation between them she felt betrayed. She also hears that they were not able to rescue Peeta from the arena. Gale waked her up from the feelings by visiting her. Then came Gale with the terrible news. District twelve has been attacked, her family is fine but that she has no home left. The end

My thoughts: I think it was a pretty good ending but it was a bit sad.
It was good that Gale came to visit her so her thoughts could be focusing somewhere else than thinking of Peeta.
If I were Kattnis in this situation I would have paniked.
I also think it was good that she survived and  that some of the opponents saved her!

A really good book. but it was a bit confusing with all kinds of names.

I recommend this book!

What I read today

Wiress and Beetee are in bad shape after the attack of the monkies.
Beetee is fighting for his life and  Wiress is in chock and is just saying tick, tock.
Katniss realizes that Wiress means that the arena is like a clock.
The group are thinking about if the arena has different danger zones that go off on a descided hour. Soon after, Wiress is killed by other tributes.

Katniss and Finnick are separated from the others and have to  hear the screaming of  people they love scream in pain.
Kattnis heard her sister Prim scream Kattnis got terrified and desperate to find her.
Then she finds the source of the screaming, its a bird.
Kattnis and Finna is in chock but they went through it togheter.

The teammates take down some of the enemy opponents, but the rest of the enemy opponents escape when the entire arena  faced a earthquake.



I think it is a good book so far, but its still a bit confusing with all the names.



so far so good.

One of the characters

Haymitch is the one in district 12 that wone The Hunger Games that is still alive.
He won at the age of 16 and in now in the age around 40.
He is a guide for Kattnis and Peeta, he guided them in the first game "The Hunger game" and is also guiding them in the Quater Quell.
Haymitch has a bit of a drinking problem and he is always drunk.
He is sleeping the moste of the days and is awake at nights.
Kaatnis and Peeta  think its hard to have a guide that always is drunk and not concentrated at his work.
He lives in a house next to Peeta and Kattnis.
In the book catching fire his drinking get worse then in the first book "The Hunger Games".

What I read today

Kattnis get dumped at the arena surrounded by water.

When she was free to move she swims to the supply center, racing against the other opponents to get her hands on a weapon.
she finds a bow and arrows waiting for her.
Then the other opponents disperse.

The first mission is to find water, Kattnis finds it in the trees.
When finding water is done she realizes that the arena is forced by a field.

Kattnis, peeta, finnick and mags where envaded by poison gas.
They dont all make it out in time and Mags the old lady sacrifices herself.
The effect the gas had is that they all got scabs that was very difficult to treat.
After that Kattnis, Peeta and Finnick went togheter with Johanna, beetee and Wiress.
Wath Kattnis and Peeta dont know is that the most people in the arena has made an agreement to protect them. 
When they have gone back to wath they thought is a safe place they were attacked by monkeys. 
Peeta almost died but another teammate saved him.
By the end of the day many have already died in the game.

So far so good