Samar El’s Reviews > Catching Fire > Status Update

The plot is so sad right now. Everyone is protecting Katniss and Peeta, they used the voices of their loved ones to torture Katniss and Finnick, Johanna is the only one saying things as they are, mags sacrificed herself, Wires helped than died. And someone still needs to win the hunger games

All these characters are going through hell and this book is about to end..? How can all these be wrapped up in 50 pages?

Been travelling but damn this book is just full of constant motion. Every chapter things happen that I can’t comprehend for a moment, a random morphing sacrificing herself? Finnick letting Mags go? Everyone wearing the gold mockingjay… something is different about these games.

Also, definitely different about these games cause president snow is including less survival stuff… they don’t want a long game.

Woah. Haymitch had one shitty hunger game. He had to go in with 100% more players and he won? Really impressive, also his final kill which wasn’t really his was very cool. His attitude and curiosity really saved him there.

Kind of excited but also not really to read/watch his story. Mainly not excited because I know how it goes but also excited because I like him.

They’re back in the arena?!!!

Also president snow opening some lame box being like “This was organised years ago” I call bull crap on that. You just want Katniss to suffer and want to put even elderly people back in the ring.

Poor Katniss and Peeta, they’re fresh out of the games that they have like muscle memory and are already training, eating right and struggling with the pressure.

Katniss has seen the mockingjay in the footage! I wonder if any of this was planned? Like her wearing the pin, everyone choosing her and this symbol, Cinna possibly making her stand out more?? I’m not sure but I’m heavily interested.

I love Peeta, he understands Katniss so much I actually can’t deal with how much he loves her!

District 8 is the first to kinda start this revolution. They’ve given Katniss an insight to what she’s done for all the districts, what the capital has done to the people.

Scary times of uncertainty and belief right now…

I really like how Katniss is open to a rebellion. It’s not that hard to be convinced of one when her family is/was suffering, her crush was whipped in the square and her life isn’t any calmer since winning the hunger games.

She’s also very human about this. She has her doubts about not being the right person for it, she doesn’t know much to be confident. There’s a lot of depth in these early chapters

(Was reading on the plane and couldn’t update)

Gale was getting whipped for a crime that him and Katniss have been committing for plenty of years and only now he gets caught? Has the capital/higher ups been allowing them to be all romantic together just to find a weak spot for Katniss?

Also, the parallels of Peeta and Gales response to Katniss’ proposal to leave is VERY telling…

How can Peeta and Katniss sleep in the same bed every night and Katniss is still like “I’m conflicted, I kinda like Gale but Peeta has saved me in ways I can never repay. But I’d never confess to either of them.”

Gale kissed you Katniss just to claim you, and he didn’t even have the decency to clarify why he did it. Rude. Poor Peeta is genuinely in love and you are playing with himself