Catching Fire

Katniss and Peeta won the deadly Hunger Games where kids fight to survive, but now the mean President Snow is mad because people in the poor districts are starting to rebel thanks to Katniss's brave actions. She has to pretend on a big tour that she truly loves Peeta to calm everyone down, but then surprise! They get picked for special Games with other winners, full of tricks like monkey monsters, foggy poison, and screaming birds that sound like family. Katniss teams up with strong fighters like swim champ Finnick, shoots arrows like a boss, and helps secret rebels blow up the bad guys' plans to start a huge fight for freedom.

In Suzanne Collins' 'Catching Fire,' the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark return home as victors of the 74th Hunger Games, but their triumph sows seeds of rebellion across Panem's oppressed districts. President Coriolanus Snow confronts Katniss, threatening her loved ones unless she quells the unrest by convincing the nation her berry-eating suicide pact was an act of lovers' passion, not defiance. During the obligatory Victory Tour, Katniss witnesses escalating defiance, symbolized by the three-finger salute, while navigating her complicated feelings for Peeta and Gale, all under the Capitol's manipulative media gaze. The 75th Hunger Games, a Quarter Quell, twists the nightmare anew by reaping tributes exclusively from existing victors, forcing Katniss and Peeta back into the arena alongside seasoned killers like Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, and Beetee. In a sinister clock-shaped arena unleashing hourly horrors—blood rain, poisonous fog, jabberjays mimicking loved ones' screams—alliances form amid betrayals, revealing District 13's covert rebellion plot. Katniss emerges as the Mockingjay symbol, her escape via hovercraft sparking Panem's civil war, though at great personal cost.