What is the third Hunger Games book called? Are there 4 Hunger Games books? Why is The Hunger Games a banned book? It has become one of my favorite series of all times!!! Oct 05, Lauren rated it really liked it. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.
The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin.
Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute Oh dear. I loved the Hunger Games trilogy so much. I have to say, I was never really looking forward to this book. I did not want to like Coriolanus at all of feel remotely bad for him.
This book started off really slow and did not get any better. I really didn't expect to like it as much as I did, i was pulled into the story and the characters right from the beginning and the story kept up its momentum throughout the entire book. The concept is similar to Battle Royale but the execution of the idea is done very nicely by Collins. Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive.
Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely.
And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever.
If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before Hunger Games number 75 has a very surprising and artfully crafted twist, not just with the actual game but with the characters as well. I think I was pulled in more by this book than the first book of the Hunger Games because I was already drawn into what was happening and this second book just managed to carry things into a whole other level.
Catching Fire gives the reader a greater perspective on what is happening around the whole area and how the political upheaval is being played out everywhere. Readers also get to see more of the love triangle with Peeta and Gale where it was not really apparent in the first book. Katniss has to figure out whom to trust and make a lot of decisions.
I liked how throughout Katniss does not realize just how important she is and has become to everything she is standing for. This book shapes her into the leader that Panem needs. Mockingjay The Hunger Games 3 - 4 Stars I was looking so forward to this book after the previous two but it seemed like Collins just wanted to get this one over and done with. Maybe I was expecting too much, it was an interesting read but it just didn't seem like she was trying as hard with this one.
Oct 01, CorgiLover13 rated it it was amazing. I have to read it. All of Suzanne's books are fantastic, but my favourite was the Hunger Games. Collins proves that the sequel doesn't have to be bad. IMHO, she is the most descriptive author.
Love all the books. Oct 06, Tabatha Asbury rated it it was amazing. I loved this series, very well written. I look forward to more possible Panem backstory books. Nov 07, Lydia rated it it was amazing. This series is my all time favorite. I read it first in sixth grade and it was good, but it grows on me every time I read it. May 04, Lynda added it. Oct 07, Adriana CE Marghescu rated it it was amazing. It was something new. And I very much enjoy new ideas.
Oct 04, Brie Elle rated it it was amazing. Oct 06, Kassandra Joy Mullin rated it it was amazing. I enjoyed this book. Mar 28, Stella Andrade rated it really liked it. Sep 29, Angie Bradee rated it liked it. He pinches the bridge of his nose when I see Silver's eyebrows raise in question-even though her bangs are across her forhead-I can still tell.
He sighs about to answer but stops him by putting her hand up as if to say "don't explain yourself and go. He moves and I'm about to follow when she stops me. You have a family, a husband, who loves you dearly! Do you want to mess that up by cheating?! Now I see coin. Don't you see that? Don't fall into his arms again, Katniss! I nod my head. Things were awkward during dinner between me and Gale I felt tired so I went to bed early.
I'm too tired to get dressed in my night clothes so I pass out in my bed. Peeta, Cinna, Prim, and Haymitch are all lined up against a wall bloody. I cover my mouth to try and not make a noise and leans against the doorway for suport.
I kick and scream. It hisses my name. I roll on my back as it pulls me down the stairs. I grab onto anything I can get my hands on but the force it causes is to strong. It stops and I sit up. It pushes me down and puts it foot on my chest. I try to pull it off but it doesn't budge. The thing that pulled me down and faught me turns into a silhouette that connects to the foot. It leans down and whispers something in my ear that I can't make out.
I turn my head away from it in disgust. I laughs and pulls out something. It is shiny and a knife. I can tell it uses all its force to fight the air and push it down in me. I scream at the top of my lungs. Something shakes my shoulders and I wake up and my vision is blurred. I see Peeta. He stokes my hair back and hushes me telling me it's okay. My vision clears when I hear his voice and I now know it's not Peeta.. He pulls me up and hugs me, hushing me and telling me it was a dream.
I see Silver and Effie looking worried with a few of the servents. That dream keeps getting deeper and deeper in my head. During breakfast I still feel embaressed by my screaming even though it was hours ago. Gale volenteered to sleep in my room to make sure I'm okay.
Silver shot him a look and he took back his plea of volenteering and Silver ended up g on the floor in my room. I feel eyes on me and take my focus off me pushing my food around on my plate and see Gale staring at me. Once he noticed I caught him staring he looks away and down at his plate. I look atSilver and she rolls her eyes and shakes her head.
Effie stopped eatting and is writing, checking, and reading things in her planner. The television flickers on. Gale imideatly rises and goes to it along with Silver. Me and Effie stay turned in our seat to get a better veiw of it. Hello Panem! Hello Katniss. I get up and slowly make my way to the television with Gale and Silver.
I see Peeta tied up, blind folded, and tape on his mouth. I sink to my knees and dare not to faint. I've done that enough and I know I can't miss it. My mouth is ajar and I can't remove my eyes off Peeta. I touch the screan, wishing I can touch him.
Prove you can still fight. Then the television goes black. I missed everything she said. I look at Silver for a hint of what she said and she looks at Effie and Gale. Just let me finish. Gale will "get hurt" and I will do a Katnissy-thing-to-do and shout his name and rush to his aid!
Causing Snow or Coin to notice me and jump out of their pretty little hovercraft and rush to get me. And I wounld'nt shout his name and rush to his aid! It is the Oh-you-know-it's-ture look. I sigh and sink back into my bed. And I can fight! And why wouldn't they have weapons? That's a waist of a hovercraft during a war.
One more question burned in my mind, "How will we get Peeta and my family? Me, Gale, and Silver start training immediately. We work with knifes, bow and arrows, hand-on-hand combat, and everything in between. Silver aces the knifes and hand-on-hand combat, not so much witht he arrows. Me not so much on the hand-on-hand combat, and Gale aces just about it all. We have one more week with the training. I'm in the red dress with the orange ribbon.
She, Silver, and Gale try to work the lights and cameras outsid ein the Capitol to film my message at the place where he started his rebelion. I feel bad so I ignore them telling me to sit down and get up to help them. I lift my head and turn around. Gale sent me to help with the fighting. Johanna helps get the light's working to the right brightness then helps on the camera's. I sit down on a low tree, crossed legged and little make on thanks to the help of Effie. I go over my lines as they try to work the camera's and get control over the televisions.
I miss them though, I wish I could see them both again. Now let me do you hair. I feel it and it brings back memories. And Silver We don't have muchh fancy things since my filiming team is gone. It's just going to be Effie filming for us. I give my speach. The scars on their bodys, the nightmares in their mind. And you caused this! I see Silver gesture for me to stand and mouths the word 'walk. I continue with it walking and touching the dead plants to bring effect.
So here it is! What if you get hurt in the hovercraft? What if-" she cuts me off by covering my mouth. She sits on the foot of it. It is very very short but it is also the only one I really remember If I was gone, then you would see Harder I try, more you have to know I may seem strong, but that's the surface you see I'm hiding inside, I'm stuck underneath.
She sings the "I'm stuck underneath" part three more times, holding the last note, before ending the song.
My eye lids grow heavey, and I fall alseep with her soft voice still in my mind, and I wonder if this is how Rue felt when her life slowly past on when I sang to her.
I roll over and get up. The silhouette curses under their breath then yanks the knife out of the gound. I turn around and run away. I push through the broken back door. I make a left and run through District 12s town center. I look back and it isn't far away. I pick up my pase and quickly go to my spot in the fence. The fence has a slight hum and it shocks me a little. My finger tips are burned from the slight electic shock but I have to keep going.
I push forward in the medow. I can go to the clif where I met Gale the day of the reaping I can grab one of my hidden bows and attack it I end up running to the lake.
The water is murkey and swamy. I decide to dive in. I perfect the dive and rise my head above the water. Something brings me back down. I kick and swim uo. The silhouette is drowning me. I scream and end up going deeper into the water, kicking and watching my air bubble rise to the surface of the water.
I fall out of bed and wake up instently. I look around with no one here to be by me after this nightmare.
I hear whistling and my door opens. It is Silver eatting breakfast. He's here downstairs wrestling Gale for the alcohol. I get up and walk downstairs. She follows me with her food. We turn the corner to enter the kitchen and Gale has Haymitch in a headlock, while Effie trys to get the knife out of his hand.
I laugh and Haymitch looks up and smiles and asures me everythings fine. I shake my head and take the bottle off the table and get the knife. Gale lets Haymitch up, prepared if he trys anything funny. This moment reminds me of the train ride, for some reason and I throw the knife. It hits the wall, right in the middle of two kitchen cabnets. I turn and hugs him. He was probably going to say sorry about my family, but thought it would be better not to mention it since today is going to be our first war.
Her hair is in a side braid with a read ribbon weaved through it. I look at her and see a younger version of me. She looks around nervous. Something tells me she is not used to attention, let alone wearing a dress. Effie comes in behind Silver. We follow him out. We make our walk to the hovercraft. Silver trys to board the hovercraft and lifts her dress up. Effie comes quick and swats Silver's hands away.
They start yelling at the same time making it hard ot understand either of them. Gale taps their sholders and they turn at him and scream, "What?! Silver snaches it from him and boards the hovercraft, pulling her dress above her thieghs like I did on the train ride to the capitol, making me laugh. Besides going over the plan, the ride is quiet until Haynitch can't stand it anymore and burts out screaming out, "Where is the alcohol?!
Is there any alcohol in this flying saucer?! Us girl turn around and watch for a few seconds then turn back to focus on the plans again for the th time.
We get relesed by the lader in the outskirts of district 2. Hovercrafts come and person after person drains down from them. Some I recognize from the past rebellion, others not much. He just laughs and walks on. I follow and figied around with my bags. Silver comes out of no where behind me laughing. I ask what and she just laughs on. Effie comes and nudges he and she quiets instently. Effie leaves and she giggles. I shake my head and move on.
We stop to get everything orginized. Gale helps get comunication devices on me and my other wepon captians. Gale introduces me to the spear's captian-Jacob, the cross bow's captian-Aveara, and many more captians for the other weapons. Each weapon team, has about people on it. I nod and a boy hands me a bag of knifes. Silver is you. I make a face and he just laughs and pinches the side of his nose. Silver slides off her coat reviling the red dress with orange flames.
I forgot how she looked in it even though I just saw her in it a few hours ago She talks to one of the people on the bow and arrow team as he helps get her arrows organized. I can't help but not fight the smile that forms on my mouth. Silver gets on a small chariot pulled by a white horse holding my-her-bow and arrows, in the center of the crowd. I press a button on the small machine on my forearm to connect me to only Silver and say, "Your not doing a good job hidding your fears I nod and she looks down and away at the trees.
The district is diserted. We enter quietly and Silver whispers directions in her wrist to all of us. We're almost here and there has been no sound besides Silver's voice in our earpiece and the wind. Your breaking up I can't hear you! I try to contact Silver when I hear a snap. We all freeze and I hear Haymitch in my ear telling me-or us all-to hold our fire. I look up and notice a hovercraft that has been following us with the cameras.
Haymitch must be in there also. I see something bright reflect off the sun and I know what weapon it is and what direction it is aiming at. She grabs the bow and her quivers and divers foward away from the flaming arrow. Everyone springs into action and fires their weapons orderly as Coin and Snow's rebelion charges twoard us.
We all colide in fight. I slash someone's throat with the knife. I hear Silver scream and turn her way. The flaming arrow caught her charitot on fire and she is holding on for drear life of the wild moving horse. I grab my knife by the blade and throw it cutting the rope that connected the horse to the charriot.
She uses the blade of her arrow to trim the dress to make it eassier to ride the horse. She moves around on the horse, helpping the wounded get out of the way with the horse. She aims her arrow and shoots flawlessly, hitting every person she is aimming at in the face, neck, or chest.
Things go incredably wrong and many hovercrafts fill the air, surounding my hovercrafts. I see sparks and from my hovercrafts and relize they are using the weapons inside to defend themselfs.
Shard of the machinary fall from the sky. Silvers horse gets hit in its neck. It lets out a horrible noise and falls on its side. Silver falls with it. Gale and Haymitch quickly tell me to "stand my ground. The comunication devices go stadicy and I look up to see the hovercraft that held the service for the devices falling down to the earth. I rip the device from my ear and arm and throw it to the floor. I look and see a knife in his arm. I can tell this is Silver's part to be seen. I wish her luck in my head and she screams Gale's name, hitting my pitch of voice so perfect, I think she practiced it every night.
One of the hovercrafts releses a lader, letting go people who attack around Silver and Gale and lift them up. Silver kicks and screams, her hair falling out of it's braid and her ear peice slipping down the side of her face with some tears. I know she is in pain and that things aren't going as planned. Someone hits the back of my head and I fall foward. I black out and lay of the cold wet ground. I hope the ground isn;t wet because of blood My vision is blured.
I see I blink a few times, but that doesn't help. I feel like I've been here before I hear whispers. I listen closely to the voices and could only make out one, Gale. He shouts something I think it was, "You can't do anything right! You knew what you were to do and you screwed things up as you always do! Your here for show, that's it! The voice answers low again, it sounds like a mumble. I don't care about how you want things to pl--" He stops and lets out the same noise he did when he got hit in the arm with the knife I blacked out in the middle of fight!
And is still alive I hear the other voice say someting that sounds harsh. I try to get up but something pulls me down. I know that pull I'm connected to machines again. Must be in a hospital. A door opens and people come and try to pull me back down to lay.
A nurse comes and jabs my arm. My vision blurs more and I black out again. I wake up, again. My vision isn't blured. And my head is throbbing. I lift up my arm and touch my head. A sharp pain shoots through my head and I drop my arm as fast as I lifted it. I walk a few steps and stumble back a few steps and sit back on the hospital bed. I get up slowly take a look at my surroundings. There's one bed, a door to the left of the bed, two tabels-one holding clothes, the other pills, needles and medication-and then a pair of shoes under the table.
I walk slowly to the table and change into the clothes and shoes. I walk out the door skowly and hear talking. I poke my head around the cornner and see Effie and Haymitch talking. I back up a little and listen.
Effie hits Haymitch's arm lightly as if to say, "stop laughing, your drunk and shouldn't be joking around like that! I heard Gale talking to someone just last night outside of the hospital room. I'm only a little light headed is all.
She sets me on the bed and lays me down. They both go outside my door and talk. They enter and sit in two chairs Haymitch brings in with him. Effie gives him a look and he rasies his arms up in surrended claiming that she would have gone on and on about a story that would go no where and waste his time. Snow and Coin have your family and Silver and Gale were captured by them.
She makes them sound like animals traped in a snare. I shake my head and rest back, trying to soak in the information. We'll be here when you wake up. I close my eyes and hope everyone is fine and alive. Wake up. I slowly open my eyes and see Johanna, worry creasing her face. Johanna looks at Effie, Effie looks at aymitch Haymitch looks at a telivision that must have been wheeled in.
He hands me a wireless phone and I answer in it. Glad to hear you. How was your sleep? I look at the telivision and see a small screen on me and th wider screan with Snow. He moves and shows Silver and Gale get thrwn next to Peeta and my mother.
They all have a cloth tied over their mouth and their eyes. The cloth on their eyes are damp and just for seeing their noses, they look scared. Coin holds their phone up to Peeta's cheek. I get she means me for them. Me gone means they can regain control of Panem and make everyone work under the harsh conditions.
I think of my Primrose having to go though the reapings in a comunity home with Cinna. No one to care for them. Everyone's life depends on it. I look up at Effie, Haynitch, Johanna, and the rest of the people in the room. They just look away or put their heads down, and wal out the room.
I curl up on the bed and try to remember where they could be. You could hear a pin drop. Silence is settled over the sitting room at Snow's house. The people who survived the rebelion that went down in a fail, but is still not over, are staying in the ruins of the capitol. Most of the buildings haven't been too harmed so they are able to live in them.
They have to stop by here for food, but otherwise, their places are livable. A clue, maybe? I get up to get a glass and Haymitch gets up right away and stops me from grabing the bottle of liquid. He grabs it and pours him a shot. I wish desprately for one, right now. Figuring out where they could be is driving me insane! Haymitch pours her a glass and she takes it down like a shot. Johanna holds out her glass of orange juice and Haymitch pours some of the alchoal in it. She stirs it with her finger and drinks it.
I'm waiting for Effie to say something about the finger stiring but she is too caught up on trying to sit stright. I roll my eyes and settle for a glass of orange juice, myself with no alcohol.
As they get tipsy, I try to think back. Maybe Silver really did give me a clue. Maybe just in case things went wrong like how they did, she did. How would she know where they would keep them, though? She did work with them before I need to relaxe. I set the orange juice down and lay back. My head rests on the sofa's armrest as a pillow and I think of Silver's delicate voce, singing me asleep with her song.
If I was gone, then you would see Harder I try, more you have to learn I may seem strong, but that's the surface you see I'm hiding inside, I'm stuck underneath. Eventully, he does and pulls himself up on the chair near the sofa. I ignore their stares and put the song together. I'm hiding inside, I'm stuck underneath. She is hiding inside where? I don't know what the middle means I would see what? Harder she trys, more I have to learn?
What is that supose to mean?! I may seem strong, but that's the surface you see, must be refering to as she is weak, and is scared. How will she defend herself like how Effie said? I explain it to them. They seem to understand and try to pull the puzzle together, dispite the headache they must be getting, right now. She has had one too many shots, apparently. Effie sticks her toung out, trying to ctach the liqud as Johanna gets up and moves the bottle more as she speaks, "How could she be under here?
Under our feet?! They are hiding inside this house?! The drunks are going somewhere, I think to myself. The corner of my mouth curls up and I get up and go to my room. I lay in my bed, knowing for sure what the plans are the next morning. I close my eyes and try to imagine the plan in my head, and trying to dream of it going well, in hope it will. A passed out Effie foot of the stairs, arm spread out, head on shoulder, a dead looking Johanna, hanging halfway off the couch, and a sleeping Haymitch, laid out across the eatting table.
Glass chips everywhere, broken bottles, cabniet door hanging off its hinges. Looks like they had a fun night, and I'm glad I wasn't apart of it! I go to the kitchen and carefully look for food. I cook a couple of eggs and toast, then pour glass of milk in half a glass. I put a straw in it, so I don't cut myself on the sharp edges. Effie sits on a stool near the counter, looking like she is about to bang her head on the counter. Haymitch's bed of a table fell to the side.
I raise my glass to all of them and go in the sitting room. Johanna crawls her way back to her sofa and Effie follows behind and Haymitch is on his back, seeking help getting up. He must have been sober for so long, he forgot how a hang over felt, let alone being drunk. As kind hearted as I'm feeling this morning, I get up to help him stand. And without rolling me eyes!
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