Gale is now referred to as her cousin despite that being far from the truth. ![]() He is made to feel even more alone than he did at the start of the games while Katniss deals with her own set of issues. They are locked into a false romance where Peeta now realizes that his affections towards Katniss are only reciprocated when the pair are in front of a camera. They've done the impossible together and now they have returned home, but things will never be the same. Katniss and Peeta are back for another adventure. It is an improvement on Collin's already fantastic narrative that feels fresh and more mature while also allowing readers to spend more time with her fantastic characters, world, and story. The book version of this story impressed me exactly as I hoped it would. And so I went into this book with timid excitement, hoping I would feel the same way. That's not to say that it made me like the first any less, just that I felt it had improved in all aspects. The CATCHING FIRE movie adaptation was one of the few movie sequels that I ever thought to be drastically better than the previous film in every way possible. ![]() I think this is part of the reason it took me so long to pick up Suzanne Collins' CATCHING FIRE (The Hunger Games Book 2) despite having read the original and seen both of the respective movies a long while ago. For this reason, I often stay away from sequels and even series in general, at least in terms of books. All too often, I find that sequels just don't provide a worthy follow up to the original or that sometimes the original story is just so incomplete that I hardly have any desire to move forward for fear of never receiving a satisfying conclusion.
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