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Chapter 1
Katniss is back in District 12, living in the Victors' Village with her family but feeling hollow. She hunts with Gale and tries to pretend life is normal, but the memories of the…
Chapter 2
Snow's visit sinks in. Katniss tells her mother and Prim nothing, trying to protect them, and she meets with Peeta to coordinate their story before the Victory Tour.
Chapter 3
Katniss visits the Hob, District 12's black market, and sees Peacekeepers behaving more aggressively than usual. She learns that Gale was publicly whipped for poaching by a new He…
Chapter 4
Gale recovers at Katniss's house and, in a moment of pain and frustration, tells her he wants to run away with their families into the wilderness rather than keep living under Cap…
Chapter 5
Katniss and Peeta begin preparing for the Victory Tour in earnest. Their prep team and stylist Cinna arrive, and Katniss leans on Cinna as someone she actually trusts.
Chapter 6
Katniss, Peeta, and Haymitch arrive in the Capitol for the Victory Tour stop. Katniss notices that two of the prep team members, Octavia and Flavius, let slip something about a sh…
Chapter 7
Back in District 12 after the tour, Katniss throws herself into hunting and tries to settle back into normal life. She and Gale spend time in the woods, and Gale pushes her to thi…
Chapter 8
Gale recovers at Katniss's house, and the experience forces Katniss to confront her feelings for him more directly. Meanwhile, the new Peacekeepers shut down the Hob, the black ma…
Chapter 9
Katniss learns from her mother and Prim that people in the district are whispering about her and looking to her as a symbol.
Chapter 10
The engagement announcement does not satisfy Snow. Katniss sees him at a Capitol event and reads his expression: it is not enough.
Chapter 11
Katniss and Peeta arrive at the Capitol for the Victory Tour stop, and the tension from the districts follows them here.
Chapter 12
The Victory Tour ends and Katniss and Peeta return to District 12. The trip has not gone the way Snow demanded, and Katniss knows it.
Chapter 13
Katniss learns that the Quarter Quell is coming. Every twenty-five years the Capitol holds a special edition of the Hunger Games with a twist designed to remind the districts of t…
Chapter 14
The specific twist for the seventy-fifth Quarter Quell is revealed: the tributes will be chosen from each district's existing pool of victors.
Chapter 15
Katniss and Peeta begin preparing to go back into the arena. Katniss spends time with her family and with Gale, knowing these may be final goodbyes.
Chapter 16
Katniss and the other tributes are now in the arena. She wakes in the jungle and immediately starts assessing her surroundings.
Chapter 17
The alliance holds the water source near the Cornucopia and tries to stay safe while processing the clock theory. Wiress is killed by Gloss before she can contribute more.
Chapter 18
The alliance moves through the jungle carefully, using the clock pattern to avoid hazards. Katniss and Finnick have a tense, revealing conversation during which he shares informat…
Chapter 19
The alliance continues to work together in the arena. Peeta and Katniss have a quiet moment that feels almost normal, which is deliberately placed against the violence around them.
Chapter 20
The alliance moves to execute Beetee's plan. They begin stringing wire from the lightning tree toward the water.
Chapter 21
Katniss and the other tributes are deep in the jungle arena. After the tracker jacker attack and Peeta's near-death, the group scrambles to regroup.
Chapter 22
The group moves through the arena with the clock pattern in mind. Katniss is still watching Finnick and Johanna carefully, unsure whether they are genuine allies or working an ang…
Chapter 23
After the jabberjay ordeal, Katniss and Finnick sit together and she asks him about Annie. He tells her Annie's story: she won her Games after a flood killed most of the other tri…
Chapter 24
Beetee proposes a plan to use the lightning tree, a specific tree that gets struck every hour as part of the clock, to electrocute the tributes in the water around the beach.
Chapter 25
The plan falls apart and the arena explodes into chaos. Johanna knocks Katniss out and cuts the tracker from her arm, which Katniss initially reads as betrayal.
Chapter 26
Katniss wakes up in the hovercraft after being extracted from the arena. She's disoriented and piecing together what happened: the arena was destroyed, the rebellion is real, and…
Chapter 27
Katniss learns the full scope of what has happened. Plutarch Heavensbee was a rebel all along, and the Quarter Quell arena was designed to be destroyed from the inside.
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