Much like it's predecessor, and still the story of Katniss kicking ass, far too busy to take names. However, I did find it somewhat less satisfying. Perhaps it's because, as Katniss herself is aware, Katniss is mostly a sidenote to the main action. She's no longer alone, and she no longer thinks she's alone; many other people are helping her to survive and trying to help her win.

I do like, still, that Katniss is more moved by loyalty and friendship than love and romance. Teenage romances are pretty dumb (I speak from experience) and not something that particularly interest me, and they don't much interest Katniss either.

This book was structurally a bit weird; the pace did not at all follow the line of punctuated rising tension we are accustomed to finding in novels, and there's a point at which one could practically have split the book in half and called it two books.

Also, at several points, I knew what was going and Katniss did not, which was a little disappointing to me, because Katniess is not stupid. However, to be fair to her, I have the benefit of knowing she is in a book, and am familiar with narrative.

So, all in all, satisfying, with a few bumps which although I have enumerated them, were actually pretty minor.