Catching Fire Blog 2

SPOILER ALERT!you may think you want to read this anyway but don't even think about it unless you have read Catching Fire. This blog tells major turning points of the story so for your own safety, DO NOT READ ON!

I finished Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and it is soooo good, but I HATE the ending. I'll talk about it more later but everyone who has read this book probably knows what I'm talking about. 'Till then, here is my summary. When I left off, Katniss was just thrown into the arena. While she was looking around, she saw lots of water and the only way to get to the cornucopia is by swimming. Her mission is to protect Peeta so when the gong strikes, she swims to the cornucopia. There she forms an alliance with Finnick and Mags, who are both very good swimmers. They grab weapons and rescue Peeta who is stuck on land because he does not know how to swim. After, they run to the jungle and hide. One night, acid rain drives them out of their camp and Mags sacrifices herself to save Katniss. After, they meet up with Johanna Betee and Wiress who are covered in blood from a tremendous blood shower. Wiress is running around in circles saying,"Tick Tock" over and over. That night, Katniss understands it. The arena is like a clock with a different terror in each sector at the same time each day. The kids spend the rest of the time in the arena discovering the different terrors. Meanwhile, they lose Wiress when the ground starts spinning really fast, but Katniss retrieves a wire from him before he dies.

Betee ends up with the wire because he is from the district that makes electronics. He comes up with a plan to blow up some of the remaining tributes which includes blowing up the lake. When they put this plan into action, Katniss and Johanna run to put the wire by the lake but Johanna tackles her and cuts her. Katniss is hurt but she manages to make it back to the lamp post to save Peeta. Betee was hurt and can't do anything about the wire so Katniss takes the wire and plunges it into the force field surrounding the arena. It blows up and she is picked up in a hovercraft with Haymitch and the head game maker in it, but not before Peeta is taken by a hovercraft run by the capitol. This is where things get confusing. Katniss wakes up in bed in a room with Betee. She thinks that she is going to be tortured by the capitol and she runs out of her room. She meets up with Haymitch and the game maker and they explain what happened.

Apparently they were all part of a secret group made to destroy the capitol. All of the other tributes were in it and agreed to risk their lives to save Katniss and Peeta. When Johanna attacked Katniss, she just pulled out the tracking device. Katniss gets really mad until she sees Gale. He says the last line of the book. "Katniss there is no District 12." !!!!!!

How can that sentence not make you go crazy????? I mean, how am I supposed to wait until August for the next book to come out with that information hanging over me! I HATE the ending! What happened to her family? Did Bonnie and Twill make it to district 13? Who died from the revolts? Come on! I cant live like this! Anyway, apart from the ending, Catching Fire is REALLY good. It is just as fun, scary, and even more suspenseful than the other book. I take back what I said in my previous blog about not liking Catching Fire so much. I would say that it's equally awesome with Hunger Games. The beginning is worse but the ending is better. I think that the book is at its best part during the games, and during all of the rebellion parts. Catching Fire is no doubt one of the best books I have ever read and I recommend it for everyone. If you like death or not (even though there is a lot of it) I still recommend this book. I was entirely turned off when I heard it was about a bunch of people who try to kill each other. Most people who know me know I'm not that kind of person, but I loved it anyway. I especially recommend it to people who don't love reading because this book will change your mind. Please comment :P