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 Catching Fire was absolutely amazing. If I could give it 6 stars I would! Poor Katniss just can't catch a break. She survives the first Hunger Games which is barbaric at best and is then sent home to resume a "normal" life. only her life is anything but normal. She is tormented by her thoughts and memories, by the nights she lived in the arena with little hope of survival for both her and the boy that had become so important to her. And to top it all off everyone she knows and loves is put into danger because of a choice she made that at the time wasn't a big deal, but ended up being seen as a major act of defiance for a government that was trying to control its people with a very short leash. She does everything in her power to try to make things right but what she slowly realizes is that it's too late. She has no say anymore in what will unfold because it has already been decided. She will enter the Hunger Games one more time and she will enter with 23 other victors including her love Peeta. 
 It's a story about what you really can survive when your back is against the wall and what becomes important to a person that has everything on the line. Lives are lost, friendships severed, secrets explode. You can feel everything Katniss feels, see everything she sees and understand all the decisions she makes. The end will leave you gaping in shock as you try to piece together exactly what was happening and who was behind it all. 
 Peeta and Katniss broke my heart in this book as they tried so very hard to keep the other alive even if it meant the loss of their own life. 
 A definite must read. This book will stay with me for a long long time.