Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins

     This novel by Suzanne Collins is truly one of my favorites.  Catching Fire was one of those books that you just do not want to put down.  I read Hunger Games around two years ago, and then I immediately moved on to this second book of the trilogy.  However, I only got up to around twenty to forty pages before I had to go to football camps in the Summer, so it was then put off up until a month or two ago.  Now I love the trilogy again and I will probably start reading the third book, Mockingjay. It is nearly impossible to discuss why this second book of the three is so amazing, but the story does not slow down at all throughout the entire novel.  At no point are there any over-analyzations in the main character’s interior monologue, as is with way too many books these days.  The main character, Katniss Everdeen, has so much on her plate.  Even during times when she is sleeping, she could be mentally debating whether or not to flee the government, kill all her friends to save them from a more devastating death then a syringe to the throat, or clawing the face off of someone who she once thought was someone she could trust.  Plus, after all of the pondering of ridiculously crazy situations that she finds herself in or that she might find herself in, everything goes topsy-turvy eventually, revealing a whole new plethora of possibilities for Suzanne Collins to write up for Mockingjay.  This trilogy is a must read for anyone and everyone.  The first book was amazing, the second even better, and the third I am expecting to top it all off like the cherry on an ice cream sundae.