Journal Entry 1 by crimson-tide from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Saturday, August 20, 2011

Different cover art.

Book 2 of The Hunger Games Trilogy. Suffered a bit from the usual problems that 'second of three' books face, but was still a good read nontheless.


Review from Amazon.com (by Season's Reading):
"Catching Fire picks up right where Hunger Games left off. Unrest in the Districts is growing at an alarming pace and Katniss unwittingly finds herself the figurehead for the movement against the Capitol. The characters you loved return for the sequel and the reader must endure each indignity the Capitol inflicts upon them. It is painful, tortuous, imaginative and motivating. It is everything The Hunger Games was and more. It both answers your lingering questions and creates so many new ones. It challenges you to think and creates such feelings of empathy for the characters that whenever I had to put the book down, I was genuinely worried for leaving the characters hanging and couldn't wait to pick it back up just so they could continue fighting for their lives and freedoms.

Everything I loved about The Hunger Games is present in Catching Fire: the unique and engrossing storyline; characters so thoroughly and beautifully described they start to feel like friends; a fantastical setting that is both real and sad; and language that is easy to read and yet conveys such a profound meaning. It has action, romance, horror, hope, despair and, most of all, humanity. It has sci-fi and politics yet, unlike a lot of books on the market, they are not "in your face" and are completely approachable."


Placed into the Sci-Fi/Fantasy VBB.
 

Journal Entry 2 by crimson-tide at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Chosen from the VBB by elsi. 

Journal Entry 3 by crimson-tide at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Saturday, November 12, 2011

Released 6 mos ago (11/14/2011 UTC) at Balingup, Western Australia Australia

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Off to elsi in the USA as part of the Fantasy and Science Fiction VBB. 

Journal Entry 4 by elsi at Sanger, Texas USA on Monday, February 13, 2012

This came in the mail yesterday along with Mockingjay. Now that I have all three of the books, I can settle down to read them all back-to-back. Thanks for sending them to me.