Hey guys! Like I promised, I’m back at it again, with another post. Yesterday, I posted a review on the first book of The Hunger Games. If you haven’t read that post, I suggest you do so, because it explains all the basics of the Hunger Games. Also, don’t read this post if you haven’t read the first book. Unfortunately, it is really hard not to spoil what happens in the first book, when you write a review about a sequel. So, there will be spoilers from the first book in this post. Also, today I’m gonna try to write about the third book in the Hunger Games series along with the second book, but we’ll see how it goes. Yesterday’s post was really long, and it takes me a surprisingly long time to write regular posts because I type really fast. It literally took me an 1 1/2 to write that post. So we shall see. Also, side note, I’m not completely sure if the second book is called The Hunger Games: Catching Fire or just Catching Fire, so if you’re confused about the name, that’s why. I just don’t feel like googling it soooo. Anyways, after yet another insanely long intro, let’s dive into it!

1. Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

So, I googled it and the book is called Catching Fire, and the movie is called The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Now, for a quick flashback to The Hunger Games, just in case you didn’t read the first book. In the first book, Katniss and Peeta go into the Hunger Games as common enemies with everybody else. Katniss and Peet are also having a kind of awkward moment because during Peeta’s interview with Caesar Flickerman, Peeta confessed his love for Katniss, which was absolutely heartbreaking, because even if Peeta won, that would have to mean that Katniss was dead, and vice versa. Then, halfway through the Games, the announcer for the Hunger Games, Claudius Templesmith, announced that the boy and girl tribute from each district could team up, and if they both killed everybody else, they would both be announced winners. So, Katniss finds Peeta, they act really in love, and they win the Games. But, at the end of the Games, when Katniss and Peeta are the last ones alive, Claudius Templesmith announces that there can only be one winner, and Katniss and Peeta are devastated and then they decide that they should just both kill themselves, and then the whole Capitol panics, and Claudius Templesmith just shouts that there can be two winners. And that’s basically the end of book one. Now you know basically everything that happened in Book 1. And I have to start doing a little bit of explaining so that things actually make sense when I’m telling you about Book 2. So, the Tribute that wins the Hunger Games, or in this case the tributes that win the Hunger Games have to go on this thing called the Victory Tour. The winners go around on a train to each District and they have to say a few words, and they get to eat special dinners and stuff. Then there’s a parade where people cheer for them, but the people at the parade all secretly ate the winner because they killed the Tribute from their District. They also do the Victory Tour about halfway through the year so that it reminds people of the Hunger Games. Also, I forgot to say this before, but the Hunger Games is on live TV and everybody is mandated to watch it, and Peeta and Katniss were acting like crazy in love on the cameras, you know because they’re supposed to be star-crossed lovers. Now we can get into Book 2. So, first there are these people called Peacekeepers and their like the policemen of Panem. District 12 gets a new Head Peacekeeper who is like completely crazy and is really strict. So if you get caught coming in with a bag of illegal meat, you’re probably going to die. So, that happened. Then, Presidents Snow comes to visit Katniss. Remember Snow. That guy from my first post. No? Well, he’s the president of Panem. So, he visits Katniss and he’s kinda annoyed because apparently she’s been starting rebellions all across Panem. The reason she’s responsible for this is because she ate those stupid berries so that she and Peeta would both die and there would be no winner. And that just tipped the people of Panem over the edge, you know gave them that little push to finally start showing how they feel about the Capitol and President Snow. President Snow then ss that if Katniss doesn’t stop these rebellions, he will kill everybody she knows and loves. Then he says that the only way for her to stop the rebellions is to convince people that she was so in love with Peeta that she didn’t know what she was doing, and that’s why she ate the berries. The only way to convince people that she was crazy in love with Peeta is to act crazy in love with Peeta. She essentially has to convince President Snow and all of Panem that she is in love. Which is a pretty tall order if you ask me. So she does that. And then, Gale gets caught with illegal meat, and is nearly whipped to death, before Katniss finds him and actually takes a whipping to the face, so that Gale can be saved. That was kind of a traumatic experience for both of them, and Katniss ends up kissing Gale, and that was not a good move by Katniss, but I can’t do more details that that, because I feel like that’s kind of important. Anyways they go on this Victory Tour and when they reach the Capitol, Peeta actually announces that he and Katniss are getting married, and then President Snow suggests that they have their wedding in the Capitol, and that he would plan and pay for all of it. But, later that night when Katniss asks Snow if she convinced the people enough, and I’m not gonna tell you what he said cuz it’s kinda a big deal. Anyways, Katniss and Peeta make it home alive. When they get home sit down for this mandatory viewing of the Capitol. You see President Snow and he’s reading this card for the Quarter Quell. Oh yeah the Quarter Quell. So, the Quarter Quell is this thing that they do every 25 years, hence the quarter, where they make up a whole new rule for the Hunger Games, but it’s only for that year. For example, the 2nd Quarter Quell the 50 year mark was when they decided to double the amount of players in the Hunger games, so instead of 24, there were 48 Tributes. That was actually the year that Katniss and Peeta’s mentor, Haymitch won. So anyways, on the card for the 3rd Quarter Quell, it says that one female and one male Tribute that already have won the Games must go back into the Games. Now, this is horrible news for Katniss, because there are only 3 people that have ever won the Games in District 12, and Katniss is the only girl, which guarantees her spot in the Hunger games. Now, I’m not going to go into any more detail than that, because SPOILERS you know, but that gives you an excuse to go ahead and read the book, now that you’ve had a little taste of what it’s like.

So, that was a long one. Anyways, Book 3 will be coming tomorrow, along with a podcast, probably. Well, that’s it for today. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!