The anthem begins, but there are no faces in the sky tonight. The audience will be restless, thirsting for blood.Sequel to the very impressive The Hunger Games, the second book in the series has our heroine Katniss once again forced to take to the combat arena for brutal contest with the champions of her world. I could see the end coming from about a quarter of the way into the book, so was a bit impatient with the characters who weren't expecting it, but the pace of the writing about short-term survival and loyalty to friends and potential lovers in extreme circumstances carries it. I went and bought the third book yesterday, so I hope it is a decent climax.
June Books 3) Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
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Felaheen; Set This House in Order; Quicksilver
These are the three books that won the BSFA Award, the James Tiptree Jr (now Otherwise) Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2004 for work…
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“Stories for Men” (J Kessel), Light (MJ Harrison), The Separation (C Priest)
Latest in my series of posts about successive winners of the Tiptree, Clarke and BSFA Best Novel awards. Second paragraph of third part of…
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December 2011 books and 2011 books roundup
This is the latest post in a series I started in late 2019, anticipating the twentieth anniversary of my bookblogging which will fall in 2023. Every…
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