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A review by beatrizdizon_
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
5.0
I’m not inclined to read series and prequels unless I’m already attached to it, so maybe this is my bias talking. Still, it took me faster than expected to finish this book. It’s marketed as a villain origin story but I don’t think the occurrences leading up to Snow’s most evil form are necessarily what caused him to be who he is in the Hunger Games books. His character is polarizing at times. Howbeit, the bad in people can just be innate.
Sejanus and Lucy Gray was unsurprisingly my favorites. Sejanus’ demise broke me. Frustrating how the only person he considered a friend constantly betrays him, in thoughts and in actions. As for Lucy Gray, at first I wanted to think that Snow never loved her and that he just wanted to possess over her like an animal. But as the story progressed, I would rather believe that he lived a loveless life. That he no longer loved anyone like he did with Lucy Gray, not for the reasons he wished for, but to contradict Lucy Gray’s erasure. In the back of his mind, she will always plague her.
What saddened me most was the relationship between the Snow cousins. So much love and care, only for Tigris to be thrown out when she is no longer of value.
Sejanus and Lucy Gray was unsurprisingly my favorites. Sejanus’ demise broke me. Frustrating how the only person he considered a friend constantly betrays him, in thoughts and in actions. As for Lucy Gray, at first I wanted to think that Snow never loved her and that he just wanted to possess over her like an animal. But as the story progressed, I would rather believe that he lived a loveless life. That he no longer loved anyone like he did with Lucy Gray, not for the reasons he wished for, but to contradict Lucy Gray’s erasure. In the back of his mind, she will always plague her.
What saddened me most was the relationship between the Snow cousins. So much love and care, only for Tigris to be thrown out when she is no longer of value.