I had doubts about this book before I ever picked it up.
There was a list of things in my head that it could never do.
- It could never be as amazing as the first one.
- They would NEVER go back into the arena and therefore, it just wouldn't live up to book #1.
- The arena was it for me -that's where Katniss's character developed into a person I cared about and without that, there was no possible way Suzanne Collins could make the second as interesting as the first.