Reviews

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

ahhhhginger's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

allielh23's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

stitches_and_scribbles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

mretust21's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

gonna tell my kids this is “Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes

redumph64's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

i hate snow too much to give this book the 5* it deserves

readingwithchristina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

vhungw's review against another edition

5.0

A MASTERPIECE. I really enjoyed the philosophical/political aspects of this book because they happened to align with what I’m learning in one of my classes rn and so reading this book made me feel like such an intelectual LMAO

Like literally the first page had quotes from Rousseau, Locke, Hobbes, and Shelley who are all authors that I had to read for the class. And I’d also happened to have cited the same quotes for my essays?!

frankie_vega's review against another edition

5.0

Lessons learned
-power hungry people are manipulative as fock
-singing has the potential to move people and spread knowledge and feelings
-never lie when asked about cheating
-corruption begets corruption

tabi_reads's review against another edition

4.0

book is really good. I liked how we could get the story of Snow’s origin story. I saw the movie before I read the book and I definitely like the book better. It gives so much more details into how things played out. Suzanne Collins did a fantastic job of showing Snow getting more and more crazy as the book went on. I liked how she show us obsession vs love. Snow was obsessed with Lucy Gray, he didn't love her. If he had loved her he wouldn't have tried to kill her in the end of the book. Even though i was twirling my feet and kicking my hair about he, it did help me realize how evil he is. Which I think the movie didn't do as good a job with.

caitlin_h98's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0