![]() Where the original movie, while good, also came off feeling like it was feeding that tweenie audience it was aimed at, something about Catching Fire feels far more serious and far more mature. So good that it out does The Hunger Games in nearly every way, something that is quite the opposite of the novel. However, the film has done something I didn't think it could do: not suck. ![]() As someone who takes the content of these books and the things that themes and stories they are trying to tell just a bit more seriously than the target age group might, I groaned and moaned throughout the novels, especially the last one. However, having read the entire trilogy, I feared that adapting the rest of the material would result in something similar to the books: terrible follow ups. Maybe it's the Battle Royale and Lord of the Flies fan in me. Forget Edward and Jacob: by book's end (and it's a cliffhanger), readers will be picking sides Peeta or Gale? Ages 12 up.I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan of the books, but I did enjoy Hunger Games, despite it's tweenie appeal. (About her staff of beauticians she quips: "They never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.") Collins has also created an exquisitely tense romantic triangle for her heroine. But the star remains Katniss, whose bravery, honesty and wry cynicism carry the narrative. Characters from the previous volume reappear to good effect: Katniss's stylist, Cinna, proves he's about more than fashion Haymitch becomes more dimensional. If this second installment spends too much time recapping events from book one, it doesn't disappoint when it segues into the pulse-pounding action readers have come to expect. ![]() ![]() Before long it's time for the next round of games, and because it's the 75th anniversary of the competition, something out of the ordinary is in order. But trouble is brewing President Snow tells Katniss directly he won't stand for being outsmarted, and she overhears rumbles of uprisings in Panem's districts. Scholastic Press, (400p) Fresh from their improbable victory in the annual Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta get to enjoy the spoils only briefly before they must partake in a Capitol-sponsored victory tour. Suzanne Collins follows her bestselling dystopian novel, The Hunger Games, with a sequel that's certain to cement fans' commitment to the trilogy.Catching FireSuzanne Collins. ![]()
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