Overall, I felt Catching Fire was much weaker than Hunger Games. Part of this is the way (view spoiler)[the arena premise is revisited(view spoiler)[, but the pacing felt much more rushed and sloppy than the first book. There is little chance to linger on the implication of plot events because instead, the implications are just spelled out right for you at the end of a chapter. (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]