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adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really really enjoyed this book. A lot. I was very hesitant to begin in, because I thought that nothing could ever be as good as the original hunger games. And this isnt- but its very close to being as good. I can't believe that Collins can still get into the minds of her characters so easily after several years of not writing this story line. Honestly, I dont really trust Lucy Gray and im not 100 percent sure I even like her 😅

Suzanne does it again... what an amazing book. I know most might pick up the book and see that it is a book based on Coriolanus Snow and give it a miss, thinking what is the point knowing what monster he will turn out to be in the hunger games. But that is the point... Snow has been written as such a disgusting man and through this book, it solidifies the feeling.

It's so interesting that throughout Suzanne never once makes you sympathise with him or make you like him, showing you all the facts laid out. It is so cleverly written that it's more Snow trying to convince you he is a victim and that he should be sympathised with.

Lucy grey is such a lovely person and she deserved so much better than her fate. And that's what is the most heart wrenching, how fast someone like Snow can turn on you, and how love never really mattered to him in the first place. He constantly talks about her being his and being jealous of her past lovers, however when she tells him she believes trust has a higher value than love and she tells him she trusts him, he never reciprocated those feelings. When he decided on pursuing her, and she strikes first, he is shocked by her behaviour, saying how he is utterly shocked she would do such a thing, when he himself was going to do that.

Nothing but fame and fortune and the Snow name ever mattered to Coriolanus and that's what makes him a vile man. The book really makes you realise he is a monster.
dark emotional mysterious tense
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No

I had a difficult  time reading this one. I know Snow is bad from the start and I was just waiting for his betrayals. Enjoyed District  12 characters 
medium-paced
adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A empolgação e o impacto ao perceber, logo no inicio da leitura, que o protaganismo será tomado pelo Presidente Snow no inicio de sua vida adulta, e a quebra de expectativas ao se dar conta das condições em que viveu no pós guerra de Panem é uma boa receita pra jogar o leitor de volta pra esse mundo e segurar na narrativa.
Muitos conceitos ja conhecidos da saga são subvertidos ou reaproveitados de formas mais rudimentares pra representar bem o aspecto histórico, por se passar muitos anos antes da trilogia principal.

Nao é preciso muito pro leitor se situar do que está acontecendo e notar os varios parelelos desenhados com a história de Katniss, paralelos esses que ao avançar dos capítulos tornam-se cada vez mais memoráveis.
A construcao de personagem do Snow na primeira parte é impressionante, e até perigosa, nos faz pensar no que precisou ter acontecido mais pra ele se tornar o presidente que foi.
A segunda parte é igualmente bem escrita, o encanto do personagem de Lucy Gray acontece dentro do mundo do livro e também transborda pra fora das páginas. Aqui também acontece os jogos, e é excelente termos uma visão de narrativa por um personagem que está fora dos jogos, foi uma ótima abordagem.

A terceira parte é pra mim, um grande anticlímax. O ritmo perde fôlego, os personagens parecem cansados e sem mais o que entregar, as páginas passam a se arrastar ao invés de fluir.
Não era necessario que tivessemos acontecimentos que explicassem a virada de personalidade do Snow de antigamente pro Snow de Jogos Vorazes, afinal ainda teriam decadas de acontecimentos que perfeitamente poderiam estar nas entrelinhas e no subtexto.
Mas aqui se cria uma situação um tanto forcada pra dar vazão à essa virada de chave. Então além de anticlimática, a conclusão se torna uma ponta solta, e não um final bem amarradinho.

No todo, a leitura é boa, é empolgante em 70% do trajeto e nos entrega personagens icônicos como Dra Gaul e Lucy Gray.

Honesty, she ate. Did I get bored towards the end and start skimming? Yes. The ending was wild. I actually want a sequel