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You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

Previous Hunger Games book review:

• The Hunger Games

# Review

The story of Katniss Everdeen continues, and both herself and Peeta Mellark are called back in the arena for the Quarter Quell, a special edition of the Hunger Games.

The story is interesting but loses a bit of the novelty from the first book. I do like how there is a bit more focus on the other contestants as well as Collins’ method of worldbuilding where she drips small tidbits of information about the world, in this case about the civil unrest occurring across Panem.

This book was much more focused on Katniss’ feelings and I found it harder to identify with her than in the first book. She felt overly emotional at times and frustratingly irrational and stubborn. While in the first book, those traits were endearing but since then, she’s had basically no character development in the maturity department and without the novelty of the situation justifying her actions, it becomes much harder to sympathize with her character. There was interesting character development from the other characters, though, including many of the supporting roles such as Haymitch Abernathy and even Effie Trinket.

# Conclusion

The novelty wears off a bit.

# Overall rating: 7.6

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