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A review by vanmeers
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
2.0
what a disappointing reading experience — snow was extremely bland and collins really failed to make you feel any emotions, positive or negative, towards him? like i don’t believe people saying this book is so much better than the film because you get all his inner thoughts like lmao what thoughts? that dude is head empty fr
i might have liked it better if i hadn’t listened to the audiobook but coming from listening to tatiana maslany passionately reading the original trilogy to sabrina fontana bringing nothing to his reading was sooooo disappointing — this dude acts in plays and musicals, yet he monotonously reads all of of the songs like he can’t wait to haul ass out of the studio? he also cannot do distinct voices for shit and either it’s him or collins but the chemistry between lucy and snow was next to zero. like it’s literally ‘go girl give us nothing’. if either one had died, i simply would not have felt it made a difference? i mean i guess snow helped build the hunger games to what it is in the trilogy but it’s shocking his underdeveloped teenage brain could do that when everything else seems coincidental at best.
anyway, maybe this book wasn’t necessary or maybe i won’t dislike it so much if i ever read the paperback/ebook but in the meantime i guess ill check out the film?????
i might have liked it better if i hadn’t listened to the audiobook but coming from listening to tatiana maslany passionately reading the original trilogy to sabrina fontana bringing nothing to his reading was sooooo disappointing — this dude acts in plays and musicals, yet he monotonously reads all of of the songs like he can’t wait to haul ass out of the studio? he also cannot do distinct voices for shit and either it’s him or collins but the chemistry between lucy and snow was next to zero. like it’s literally ‘go girl give us nothing’. if either one had died, i simply would not have felt it made a difference? i mean i guess snow helped build the hunger games to what it is in the trilogy but it’s shocking his underdeveloped teenage brain could do that when everything else seems coincidental at best.
anyway, maybe this book wasn’t necessary or maybe i won’t dislike it so much if i ever read the paperback/ebook but in the meantime i guess ill check out the film?????