After reading the second installment of Suzanne Collins’s the Hunger Games, I’m left with mixed emotions about this book. Let me state clearly that this is a well written book. No argument there. I guess what it comes down to is the direction Collins went with the story. Now mind you it’s her story, but I personally felt it was almost as if she ran out of ideas. Like maybe the first Hunger Games should have been a stand alone novel and let it be done from there. I will say this though, she finished strong with the last few chapters of Catching Fire and made me want to read the third and final installment of the tale. I’m glad I finished the book because now I want to see how all of this plays out where as during say the middle of it, I almost gave up on it. Enjoy\m/