Review: Catching Fire (Part One)

About, eh, too weeks ago I finished reading Catching Fire and I said "Yay! I can write a review for this now!" Well, here I sit, two weeks later, finally writing it. You see, I thought that it would be cool to get the opinions of some of my friends that had read this book. It's a pretty popular series right now, and alot of my amigos had read it.

Caution: Contains minimal spoilers.

Scott, the first person I asked, said he like everything after the announcement of the Quarter Quell. He thinks that everything before that was rather boring. I agree that it did pick up and get better after the announcement, but I wouldn't say the stuff before it was necessarily boring, just not as exciting. He wanted to rate this book four and a quarter of five stars, but I told him he needed to round. So, he rounded up to four and a half of five stars, which is pretty good. I was really happy Scott shared his opinion with me so you guys could get an opinion from a guy's perspective.

Kathlyn, who follows me, (Stalker! Just kidding.) also told me her likes and dislikes. She liked that they went back to the arena and she really liked the arena itself, what with it's clock pattern, and something different happening in each 'zone', if you will. She also liked Finnick, which doesn't suprise me, becasue Finnick just seems like a kind of person Kathlyn would like. She didn't like Gale, however. I'm not sure it's that she didn't like him as much as she's strongly Team Peeta. (I believe that when they make a movie there will be a whole Team Peeta/ Team Gale controversy. So, I've already started using the terms in my brain.) The other thing she didn't like was the strictness of the Capitol. All in all, she thought it deserved four out of five stars, so that's good.

My other friend, who we shall call Gertrude, honestly couldn't think of anything they disliked about this book, and she reads ALOT. She, like Kathlyn, liked the idea of the clock arena. She called it 'genius'. She also like Beetee's character and how they escaped the arena. Both of these things are quite original. She did say it was somewhat slow, but maybe that was a good thing. Gertrude rated this book five out of five stars, a very prestiguous honor from someone who reads so many books.

You probably noticed this post is labeled as 'Part One'. I didn't want it to be too long, so I decided to break it into two parts. The next half with feature my opinion and a summary. I will be posting that soon, along with lots of other post. So make sure to check back for Part Two real soon! Peace, Love, and leftover Steeler cupcakes :P