Comments on: Recent Reads: Catching Fire

By: kt literary » Blog Archive » I Have Not Forgotten

kt literary » Blog Archive » I Have Not Forgotten — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:12:17 +0000

[...] giving that it came out that weekend. If you didn’t check out the links in the comments on my Recent Reads post, you can read some of the other reviews for Catching Fire here, here, here, here, here, and here. [...]

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:31:58 +0000

Next September feels so far away! Yay Team Peeta!

http://lizzymason.blogspot.com/2009/09/feeding-be...

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:16:36 +0000

Yay Daphne for catching up on all my favorite books!

Review here: http://wildcat.arizona.edu/wildlife/catching-fire...

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Recent Reads: City of Bones | kt literary — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:01:23 +0000

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By: Katee

Katee — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:49:16 +0000

I loved Catching Fire as much as Hunger Games (which is saying something). My review is here: http://redqueen1.livejournal.com/32762.html

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:34:17 +0000

I finished CATCHING FIRE yesterday, and I'm going bonkers because of the cliffhanger ending. My review was posted on 50bookchallenge on Livejournal and also on LibraryThing, which you can read here:
http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?v...

George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" books are ones I probably could have waited to read. I only read the existing books last year, so it's not as though I've been waiting from the beginning, but still. The last book didn't even touch on several of my favorite characters.

I'd say that C.E. Murphy's Walker Papers series works very well. Each book can stand on its own, but the series is very cohesive as a whole. And no cliffhanger endings that make me want to rip out my hair!

By: Sherrie Petersen

Sherrie Petersen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:26:09 +0000

Getting to the end of Catching Fire left me with more questions than answers so yeah, I'm a little frustrated about having to wait a year for the next book.

I love the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. I think he did a good job of satisfying readers with each book but still leaving something to anticipate with the next. Like with Catching Fire, I was there the day The Last Olympian came out. Only with the Percy Jackson book I had to fight with my 9-year-old for a chance to read it!

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:16:07 +0000

The series that I wish I had discovered after the last book was published is Diana Peterfreund's Secret Society Girl series. I had to wait for the last two and it was pure torture!

So, Daphne, are you Team Peeta or Team Gale?!

By: jjmcgaffey

jjmcgaffey — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:49:05 +0000

Two that really bothered me – Linda Evans' Far Edge of Darkness, which is clearly the first book in a series and she never wrote the next! Those poor people have been falling into the Seine for – what, 13 years now?

The other is Duainfey by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. I _love_ most of their stuff, so I grabbed Duainfey as soon as I could – and then found that it just sort of stopped. No conclusions, no even temporary safe place for either of the protagonists – for that matter, by the end of Duainfey they hadn't even _met_. Lots of story but no sort of ending. I haven't managed to read Longeye, which completes the story, yet, largely because I was so disappointed by Duainfey. I will read it, eventually. But that is definitely one book cut into two random pieces. They've done successful cliffhanger sort of endings before – I felt no great pain waiting for Carpe Diem, although the previous book (Agent of Change) had them making a hyperspace(ish) jump in a crippled ship under crisis conditions – they'd escaped that problem, the next set could wait. But Duainfey just didn't work for me.

Note that I'm a lot more upset about Duainfey, because I like and trust the authors, than I am about Far Edge of Darkness – although it is a case of once burned twice shy. Even writing with David Weber, I'm not reading a Linda Evans again until the series is complete (and maybe not then).

By: Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:33:21 +0000

Actually I was glad that I waited to read the Mortal Instruments series until after they were all out. As much as I loved the books, the characters, the world, and the series as a whole – I definitely felt like I was left hanging at the end of the first book! I had to wait a few days to get the second and third from Amazon, and I was not a happy camper.