Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2) by Collins, Suzanne(September 1, 2009) Hardcover

My son liked it

Was in great shape.

just what my grand daughter wanted

Arrived as descibed

Came used. ordered it brand new and it came scratched and the pages are wrinkled from water damage.

This book was obviously used as many pages have ink written on them. Very disappointed!

In my written review, that I wrote in my journal back in 2018, I gave this book 5 stars. Re-reading it, I really don’t see why I did that. My review is no help either, so I’m just going to go with my thoughts right here without writing them down.This was…really slow. Like, even the intense parts were slow. There’s hardly any reaction to anything and I’m just thankful to the movies for putting those reactions there. I don’t remember how other book holds up, I can only guess it’s the same? I feel like the reactions were better in The Hunger Games and it just seemed really dialed down. I hardly anything to work with.Slow. Very slow. It takes forever to get to the action, but I guess it’s the buildup for the next book and it’s a buildup for Katniss resigning herself to helping the rebellion. The love triangle thing feels forced in, but I guess that’s not completely the authors fault, if what I’ve seen around is true about her publisher wanting to shoehorn it in. This is life and death, there should be no thought to relationships at this time.I do still enjoy this trilogy, and I believe this book just suffers that of the middle book. It’s there to set up the story’s ending, the final book. Will I be re-reading this book when I re-read the trilogy? Yes, of course. Even though I have my issues with it, all of them seeming to stem from how slow the pace is, I still wouldn’t leave out such a vital piece of the puzzle.Thank you for reading my review!

$38 for this supposed new condition book and it have scratches and creases and the front cover has been bent at the corner. Not new condition.