After reading Mockingjay and giving some additional thought to Catching Fire, I lowered my initial review from 4 stars to 3. This book starts to shown the terrible plotting that culminated in the worst ending ever. 
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 Katniss' performance in the Hunger Games is starting to cause rebellion. So what does Snow do? Put her back in the Hunger Games. Why the hell would he do that? Collins says it's because he can't kill her outright because that would cause suspicion. But he can change the rules to drag her back into the games without repercussion? 
 And what's up with a rebellion we're supposed to believe is powerful enough to topple the Capitol but couldn't arrange clandestine communication between the victors before the games started so they would all know what was going on? 
 I'm not even going to talk about the whole marriage and pregnancy stupidity. 
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 Collins does an outstanding job with pacing, but her grasp of believable motivations is very tenuous. So as soon as you pause to think about what she's written, the whole plot falls apart like a house of cards.