She felt that her father had a sort of urgency to teach them, so they spent many family outings at one battlefield or another. He was always very open to his children about his military career, including his time deployed to Vietnam Nam. Influenced by her college history teaching father, Suzanne learned about history, and especially war history, at a very early age. Her works have sold more than 87 million copies worldwide. Instead of falling into that trap, Catching Fire starts out leisurely to let us catch up with the characters and get familiar with the consequences of the actions in the first book, only to become a fast-paced story well worth the listen.Best known for The Hunger Games Trilogy, author, Suzanne Collins, from Hartford, Connecticut has risen to star status in the literary field. That being said, the Catching Fire audiobook may actually be my favorite of the three-rare for trilogies, which tend to have saggy middles like any other story. This installment of the trilogy is more about character development and world-building than about the life-or-death action of the original.

Previous narration by Carolyn McCormick has received mixed reviews online, so we recommend ensuring you get the updated version. The audiobook of Catching Fire was re-recorded and released in 2019 with narration by Emmy Award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany who does an amazing job. After the Tour goes horribly wrong, things just get worse as the special theme of the 75 th Annual Hunger Games is announced. But as glamorous as the Tour might sound to outsiders, Katniss sees it for what it truly is: a dog-and-pony-show meant to prove that even Victors, forced to face the families of those they killed, are subject to the Capital’s whims.

Katniss now lives in a swanky new house in the Victor’s Village and is preparing to embark on the mandatory Victory Tour throughout all twelve districts of the country of Panem. The Capitol hasn’t (yet) taken revenge for her rebellious actions in the Games.Īs the story opens, we see that six months have passed since the Games. Her mother, sister, and best friend Gale Hawthorne (who completes the triangle) are safe.

Against all odds, both she and Peeta Mellark (one side of her love triangle) have managed to survive the Games. At the start of the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen is failing to enjoy the so-called spoils of being a Hunger Games Victor.

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