Friday, September 11, 2009

Catching Fire Review

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I want to start off by saying that I LOVE this series. This book didn't disappoint me the slightest and I KNOW readers will love this book. A short summary: rebellion is brewing and Katniss and Peeta have to pretend they're desperately in love with eachother. They even go so far as to fake a marriage proposal.I jumped at that part. This book is plently of shocks and twists, though I wish page 174 had been more of an orginal punishment. I was slightly irriated that the plot had to be recycled in that way. One the contrary there's more of the Peeta/Gale/Katniss love triangle. I'm totally Team Peeta and this book satisfied me (though Team Gale fans will also get a wiff out of it).  This book reminds me of Star Wars in so many ways. What the heck, everything is Star Wars these days: Percy Jackson, the Mortal Instruments, the Inheritance Cycle, and now this!  It all related back to the hero's journey. There's a humongo jumbo cliffhanger at the end so get ready! Speaking of the previous spoiler (hlighlighted in yellow, mind you), there's lots of deception in this book. That whole "love thingy" in the last book is a potato compared to what happens here.  At least every chapter, Katniss makes something up.  It was relieving having some secondary characters. I was close to congratualting Johanna or slapping her in the middle of the book. Finnick was a character I also liked, but he seemed so...dull. There's a bit more of Madge in the book (A Midsummer Night's Dream, anyone?). Readers are going to be crying at the end wishing for the sequel of this book.

2 comments:

  1. I think I got a couple of books by her from the library. I'll look into this series. So the fingers are crossed that the library cooperates with me.

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  2. Thanks for visiting this site. It is a really good series!

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