{"id":760,"date":"2009-09-21T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2009-09-21T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:34:21","slug":"review-of-catching-fire-by-suzanne-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Review of Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/catching_fire.jpg\" alt=\"catching_fire\" title=\"catching_fire\" width=\"135\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-761\" \/><em>Catching Fire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n<p>Scholastic Press, New York, 2009.  391 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>Wow.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/hunger_games.html\"><em>The Hunger Games<\/em><\/a> was gripping, heart-wrenching drama, but in this sequel Suzanne Collins has turned things up a notch.  <\/p>\n<p>Katniss&#8217; troubles and her family&#8217;s troubles should have been over at the end of <em>The Hunger Games,<\/em> but she challenged the power of the Capitol, and those in power were not pleased with her.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Katniss has become a symbol of rebellion.  Could that rebellion be spreading?  One thing is sure &#8212; if it is, it will be brutally squelched.  And if Katniss can&#8217;t convincingly quiet the uproar she started, she knows her own loved ones will suffer.<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely not light, cheery reading.  As if all this weren&#8217;t enough, we&#8217;re stuck reading about the next year&#8217;s Hunger Games, this time a Quarter Quell, for the 75th year of the games, with its own fresh horror.<\/p>\n<p>The story is not complete with this volume.  I will definitely be one of the people clamoring for the third book.  I do join with my friend Farida to say that it had just better offer some happiness and hope for these people!<\/p>\n<p>Even though the topic is unpleasant &#8212; a future repressive and brutal government &#8212; the story is transcendent and definitely worth reading.  The story has a love triangle, life-and-death drama, and people risking their lives for freedom and justice.  The book will keep you reading and then stick with you when you have to put it down.  <\/p>\n<p>The only awful thing about this book is how long we&#8217;re going to have to wait before we can find out what happens next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0439023491\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/catching_fire.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/catching_fire.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press, New York, 2009. 391 pages. Starred Review Wow. The Hunger Games was gripping, heart-wrenching drama, but in this sequel Suzanne Collins has turned things up a notch. Katniss&#8217; troubles and her family&#8217;s troubles should have been over at the end of The Hunger Games, but she challenged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,18,42,55,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-science-fiction","category-starred-review","category-suspense","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}