If you have read my last post you will see that I loved the first book in this series called the Hunger Games. The sec­ond book starts off where the last one fin­ished. It talks about Katniss’s return to dis­trict 12 and how she and Peeta are cop­ing with being back in dis­trict 12. They are now under the watch­ful eye of the cap­i­tal and start to see more and more peace­keep­ers in town. Katniss’s and Peeta’s rebel­lion did not sit well with Pres­i­dent Snow and now Kat­niss may be pay­ing the price.

This book deals with the con­se­quences of Katniss’s rebel­lion and also the chang­ing tide in the dis­tricts. Talk of pos­si­ble upris­ing and rebel­lion comes out. The cap­i­tal forces Kat­niss and all the other cham­pi­ons from past Hunger Games back into the ring. This sends shock­waves to all of the dis­tricts and this act shows that the cap­i­tal is still in con­trol over the dis­tricts. This sec­ond book deals more with the love tri­an­gle of Kat­niss, Gayle and peeta plus the issues of a pos­si­ble rebellion.

I found this book just as good as the first one a bit slower in the begin­ning but then you get caught up again in the story. I am now read­ing the last of this series Mock­ing­jay and will fol­low with another book review.

So far this series does not dis­ap­point and I highly give it four stars! If you liked the first one you will enjoy the char­ac­ters again in the sec­ond and third book of the series.

I have been want­ing for some time to get back into read­ing for fun and not just for busi­ness or school. I found that there was a lot of buzz going around about a book called the Hunger Games. So this made me very curi­ous about the book and then I saw the movie trailer for the movie com­ing out in early 2012. I decided that I was going to read the book series before the movie came out. I wanted to get a jump on read­ing the book first so I went online and ordered it and the next in the series called Catch­ing Fire.

The story is about the future of North Amer­ica and how it goes through some kind of nuclear destruc­tion. North Amer­ica becomes a place called Panem and is made up of 12 dis­tricts. Each dis­trict is ruled over by the cap­i­tal where all of the gov­ern­ment offi­cials live. The main char­ac­ter of the book is a young sev­en­teen year old girl named Kat­niss Everdeen. She lives in dis­trict 12 with her mother and her sister.

They are all very poor in most all of the dis­tricts except the cap­i­tal. Kat­niss hunts to keep her fam­ily alive even though this is a for­bid­den act. The cap­i­tal makes all of the dis­tricts hold an annual event called the Hunger games in which one boy trib­ute and one girl trib­ute from every dis­trict must com­pete. They com­pete to the death and the sole win­ner will be crowned the win­ner of the Hunger Games. The win­ner gets to live a life of lux­ury for them self and their fam­ily mem­bers. The Hunger Games are tele­vised on tele­vi­sion and every­one in Panem is forced to watch these games like they were the Olympics. Peo­ple even cheer for them and pick trib­utes to spon­sor. This is not a vol­un­tary game and every fam­ily with chil­dren between the ages of 12 and 18 must enter their chil­dren into the draw­ing. The cap­i­tal did this to stop the dis­tricts from try­ing to rebel against them like they did a long time ago and so they started the Hunger Games to keep them in line.

The book is very fast paced and you become addicted to the sto­ry­line and char­ac­ters very eas­ily. There are a lot of sto­ries going on with the char­ac­ters of the Hunger Games and also the main char­ac­ter and her rela­tion­ship with each one of them. This is a really good book that paints a very detailed pic­ture in your mind. I am very curi­ous to see if the movie will be half as good as the book since there is so much detail involved. I highly rec­om­mend this book to any­one over the age of 13 who likes to read about sci­ence fic­tion and who liked Harry Pot­ter and the Twi­light type stories.