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Title: Catching Fire
Subtitle: Hunger Games, Book 2
Author: Suzanne Collins
Narrator: Carolyn McCormick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-09
Publisher: Scholastic Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 39458 votes
Genres: Teens, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher's Summary:
Katniss Everdeen continues to struggle to protect herself and her family from the Capitol in this second novel from the best-selling Hunger Games trilogy.
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©2009 Suzanne Collins (P)2009 Scholastic, Inc.
Critic Reviews:
"Collins expertly blends fantasy, romance and political intrigue (so who needs vampires?)." (
People Magazine)
"
Catching Fire not only lived up to my high expectations, it surpassed them. It's just as exciting as
The Hunger Games, but even more gut wrenching, because you already know these characters, you've already suffered with them." (Stephenie Meyer)
"...enough action to please
Hunger Games fans and leaves enough questions tantalizingly unanswered for readers to be desperate for the next installment." (
School Library Journal, starred review)
Members Reviews:
Almost as good as the first
I assume you have read book 1, the Hunger Games, if not you need to start there.
I liked this almost as well as the first book. SC has a good imagination and surprised me more then once. I did get quite irritated with the main characters' constant whiny attitude. I realize that a lot of teenagers are overly dramatic and whiny, but you would think as much as this girl has accomplished she would be more gung-ho. I would also think that as much killing she has done and bloodshed she has seen that she would be more mature for her age. I did think this book was more YA then the first.
If you like this book then I suggest that you listened to Barbara Demick's "Nothing to Envy". It is real life stories about people in North Korea, which strongly mirror the fictional world in Hunger Games. You may like it even more since, these are real stories.
I enjoyed this book and will be listening to the third book.
Dissent Rules
Katniss and Peeta return triumphantly to District 12. After 6 months, they embark on a tour around the other districts as dissent and tensions rise. An outraged President Snow concocts a special treat for the 75th Hunger Games.
This book is slow to start with the "couple" touring on the train and adjusting to living in their victors' houses in a separate village while the townspeople continue to exist in squalor. The love triangle grows more complicated with Gale now back in the picture. Mid-way through, the story gains speed with an interesting twist and never stops. Couldn't download the third quickly enough.
My only complaint is how old the narrator sounds. I grew accustomed to it in the first book and it doesn't detract too much from the fantastic story.
Even better the second time...
I loved this book and I will talk about content, but first I must give praise to the audio itself. I often read the books before I listen to them, so I don't expect to be so spellbound by the audio. However, with this book, the narrator (Carolyn McCormick) is great and helps to engage me even more than when I read it myself. I had listened to the first book "The Hunger Games" before reading the second, it had the same narrator, and I could hear here voice in my head as I read. I made a point of listening to both back to back and it was pure pleasure. In "Catching Fire", I found myself laughing and crying with the book.
