tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this was pretty interesting to read. a different perspective on the hunger games. a villain origin story.

ATP anything to help me hit my reading goal
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional tense fast-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
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DID NOT FINISH: 68%

I don’t know what I expected because we clearly know from Hunger Games that Snow is the bad guy, but the way Suzanne wrote him in this book, you kinda like him. Then he truly becomes the character we know and loathe. I was so disappointed how he treated Sejanus especially when he was kind and really a true friend to snow. Due to this betrayal I just didn’t like this book much. Betrayals are such a turn off for me. 

The overall story and the games was interesting seeing how Snows expresses shaped how he behaved and overall opinions of other. How though the entire thing he looks down of people from the districts despite being friends with one and falling for another. How murder is framed as people are desperate to survive and how they are demonized for how they react to there lives being threatened. The cruel reality of the hunger games and how they use it to push there own beliefs. 

Snow really sees the worse in everyone and thinks he is the best. Thinks he is above manipulation while being manipulated by someone else then he thinks. How curl he is. The justification of his actions and thoughts. The complete disregard for other once they no longer benefit him. 

Would be 3 stars if I had to read it over a longer period of time. It really sets up The Hunger Games and I enjoyed it.
adventurous tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes