Response to Catching Fire

           No worse than the first, Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. This is to say, it was as good as the first, to rephrase. Many sequels are disappointing, but this book did not fail my expectations...at least in writing technique. To be honest, it was slow. Really slow. It got started action-wise on page 270. And I'm not saying the pages and chapters before that were dull. They were leading up to the action. But a lot of it was just unnecessary. If you ask me, this whole book was captivating but unnecessary. SPOILER ALERT: Did Katniss really have to enter the Games again? That was a little pointless. She entered only to be rescued. It would have been a lot more efficient just to have the tributes on the train to the arena and then have Katniss rescued and Peeta captured. That would've chopped about 200 pages off the book and it could've been so much more worth it. That would've been a much better lead up to the third book. Honestly. But make no mistake, I recommend the book. Just don't expect wonders.