Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

loved it, Loved It, LOVED IT! 5 Stars all the way. The only bad thing is I have to wait for the third book in the series to be written and then released.

Book and Author info: Suzanne Collins

I'm LOVING Catching Fire.

It's really that good. I don't want to put it down. I wish I had more hours in the day to read it.

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.

I have a confession...

I'm a 39 year old women and I LOVE YOUNG ADULT BOOKS. It started almost a year ago. I blame my pre-teen. She did this to me. I had not a clue that I was one of them. You know a "Twilighter". It all started one Friday afternoon. I was taking my daughter and her friends to the much anticipated "Twilight" movie. I really could careless about the film but as the wonderful mother that I am, I agreed to escort them. Much to my surprise I loved it. Since I loved the movie and my daughter had the book I decided to read it. Just a little history about me. I was not a fiction book reader.

I loved the book even more than the movie. I couldn’t put it down. When I was done I had to read the next book in the series "New Moon". This is when I visited the public library. I hadn't been there in very long time. I got myself a library card and went to find the book. "Checked out, what?" "Waiting list, what?" I needed to read it NOW! Uh oh, who was that? Me needing to read a book now? So I put “New Moon” on the wait list along with “Eclipse” and “Breaking Dawn“. I might of not have been a big reader but I'm not stupid.

Lucky for me the wait for “New Moon” was only a few days. Read it in a couple. A week and a half later both “Eclipse” and “Breaking Dawn” came in. Read them both in a weekend.

These books changed me. I loved the way they made me feel. The way I couldn't wait to go to bed so I could read. I no longer sat in front of the TV going to bed depressed because of the horrible events being broadcast on the nightly news. I was going to bed with a smile on my face looking forward to tomorrow so I could read some more.

Since I was a new fan of Stephanie Meyer I tried her adult book "The Host". I only got a few chapters in. Just didn't do it for me. So what was it? I liked her style of writing. Was it because “The Host” wasn't about vampires? “Oh no, maybe I'm a vampire lover not YA book lover.”

For my birthday my daughter bought me "Marked" A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast. Wasn't sure at first if I liked it or not. It just wasn't "Twilight". But the more I read the more I started to like it. Of course I had to read "Betrayed" right after. After "Betrayed" I read "Vampire Diaries" by L.J. Smith. I started to think it was a vampire thing until I read “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. I LOVED “Hunger Games”. I’m on the wait list for "Catching Fire” and I can‘t wait to read it. No vampire in that series. So I'm happy to report I might like the vampires but it's the Young Adult books that I love (though the majority of the books I’ve read this past year are about vampires). I'm going to keep this blog as a Diary of all the books I've read and plan to read.

I want to thank my daughter for being a Twilight fan and Stephanie Meyer for Twilight. You've opened up a whole new world to me and I thank you for that.