Catching Fire By Suzanne Collins

This is the second book in the Hunger Games Series. In this book we again follow Katniss through her struggles just to have a normal life. She has won the Hunger Games and no longer has to work just to feed her family. She and Peeta have been given homes and anything else they could want for having won the games. The catch is that the Capitol is pissed these two won. Normally in the Hunger Games, much like in Highlander, there can be only one. Katniss and Peeta have cheated the Capital.

As a result they end up having to go back to the Hunger Games. This time they are going up against people who have all won previously. This is something the call the Quarterly Quell where there are new rules for the Hunger Games every 25 years. This year it so happens that the people chosen to go to the games have to be from the winner pool. This means there are so seriously people to seriously crazy people in the competition. Without ruining anything for anyone I will say that these preparations for the Games are more interesting than the first book. I will also say I liked the character development in this book better than in the first.

There is an interesting twist of events at the end of the book that I didn't really see coming, well at least not the way that it did. I don't want to have any spoilers here so I will just say you may want to have the third book handy when you read this one as it ends on a cliffhanger.

I recommend this book for anyone who has read the first. I would not recommend this for young children as there are definitely some mature themes what with all the death of the Games and all. I would also recommend this book to fellow Political Science majors or anyone interested in fear tactics that governments use.