Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins reviewed by Jonathan S.

After winning the Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellarka return to district 12 from the Capitol, where the Hunger Games are held. The Hunger Games is an annual “game” in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from districts 1 through 12 are forced to fight to the death on live T.V. Also, they have to fight in an arena that is different every year, and it is filled with challenges such as poisonous food and flaming-rock catapults. The problem is that there is only supposed to be on winner of the Hunger Games, not two. The only reason Katniss and Peeta got out of the games with both of themselves alive is that in the arena, there is poisonous berries, and Peeta and Katniss planned to eat them simultaneously so they would both die, and save each other from a mournful future. Right before they ate them, an announcer announced that they would both be winners of the Hunger Games. The announcer did this because if there was no winner of the Hunger Games, he would have been executed.

The Capitol is very mad at Katniss and Peeta because their attempt to sabotage the Hunger Games was, of course, on live television, and everyone from the Capitol to district 12 saw it. Ever since ten, a rebellion has been brewing in the districts, and it could erupt into something huge! The only was Katniss can keep herself and those she loves alive is by pretending that she only pulled the berries out because of her undying love for Peeta (which she doesn’t really have). Can she do it? Will there be a rebellion? Read this book to find out!