I strongly recommend that you
have Mockingjay in your possession before you start Catching Fire. That way, when you finish Catching Fire at 2 am on a Wednesday (and your yoga alarm is going
off in 4 hours and you’re exhausted from work but you still couldn’t even
consider sleeping until you read to the
end), you can rest in the comfortable knowledge that the third book in the Hunger Games Trilogy awaits your
voracious reading appetite instead of going into minor Hunger Games withdrawal
for the week it takes to get the next book.
Just me?
Agreed.
You may recall that I read
the first book, The Hunger Games, when I was in India. The series is best
described as young adult dystopian fiction – don’t judge me, they’re awesome.
Books 2 and 3 are just what
you’d expect – the same gut-wrenching, fast-paced, action-packed emotional
rollercoaster that sucked readers into the first book of this super-popular new
series.
You must read these books. This reviewer
put it well: I’ll get the
hyperbole out of the way first: if all young adult lit were as well-written as The
Hunger Games, I might never
read adult fiction again.
Suzanne Collins does a great job
of creating real characters. They
live in a world like ours, but also distinctly unlike ours (it’s North America,
but many many many years in the future). Despite the totally different setting,
I really felt myself in each character. As I read, I wondered how I would react in the situations these characters are put in... (Full disclosure - it gets a teeny tiny bit teen angst-y at some points, but not annoyingly so.)
The second and third books are definitely darker than the first, and at times can be really creepy...but once you start you cannot stop!
And if you need another
reason to read these books, there’s a movie coming out this November and I am
SO PSYCHED. The character posters look just like I imagined them, and you can
watch the trailer here.
