A review by aeslis
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
4.0
I wonder if Catching Fire had a different editor, or if I just didn't notice the number of sentence fragments that were in The Hunger Games. There were a lot here, anyway, which I found quite distracting.
This book was not what I thought it would be, and I mean that in a neutral way and in a good way. I thought the entire book was going to be the Victory Tour, and how Peeta and Katniss dealt with that. It turns out, however, that that's just the beginning, and a good deal of the tour itself is shortened down and summarized. Then Katniss goes through a lot of panic, angst, stress, and something of an identity crisis after going back home to District 12.
What Suzanne Collins is really good at is action and intrigue, and luckily, the last third of the book is full of it. Where the middle of the book went through a lull, the last third picked it all back up and took off running.
Though while I say a 'lull', please understand that I still couldn't stop reading. I finished this book in under 24 hours.
This book was not what I thought it would be, and I mean that in a neutral way and in a good way. I thought the entire book was going to be the Victory Tour, and how Peeta and Katniss dealt with that. It turns out, however, that that's just the beginning, and a good deal of the tour itself is shortened down and summarized. Then Katniss goes through a lot of panic, angst, stress, and something of an identity crisis after going back home to District 12.
What Suzanne Collins is really good at is action and intrigue, and luckily, the last third of the book is full of it. Where the middle of the book went through a lull, the last third picked it all back up and took off running.
Though while I say a 'lull', please understand that I still couldn't stop reading. I finished this book in under 24 hours.