The writing style was just as distracting and unappealing as it was in the first book, [b:The Hunger Games|2767052|The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)|Suzanne Collins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1326003698s/2767052.jpg|2792775], though by this time I was able to mostly ignore it. The story was gripping, and the plot was mostly enjoyable.

I still admired Katniss Everdeen's desire to take care of those around her, and I appreciated her willingness to sacrifice herself for Peeta. Soon, however, my positive opinion of her was eclipsed by her lack of empathy and her abrasive personality. She had also seemed, up to this point, to be remarkably slow-witted when it comes to issues related to the revolts and to her (terribly overdone) love triangle. This is one of the dangers of a first person narrative; since the reader and the narrator have the same information, the reader can never come to a conclusion too far ahead of the narrator without risking making the narrator seem unintelligent or blinded.

By the end of this book, I was ready for the series to be over, and for Katniss to die.