It’s been weeks since the horrific Hunger Games; Katniss and Peeta are trying their best to adjust to this new life as victors. Just as things start to become normal, or as normal as they can be, their world is shifted when the 75th Quarter Quell games are announced and it’s the surviving victors who must go into the Games once again. This novel starts off slow, with a lot less action and a lot more exposition as to what is potentially to come. It isn’t until about the halfway mark that the action really starts to pick up again. The plot was good, and fast-paced near the end that when the reader finally did get there they craved more. The characters have definitely grown a lot since the first book, and the reader can see the love triangle Collins is trying to form; it has its good and bad moments, but for the most part it’s been done well. The ending leaves us with more questions than answers, which only means that the next book will be quite the ride. For the most part, this novel was set up well, even if it did take its time to start; it was full of drama and unexpected alliances between characters.