A review by madisongturner
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

If you are into the other Hunger Games books or just general dystopian books, this would be a great book for you. I feel like this wasn't my top of the Hunger Games books, but was very good nonetheless. Suzanne Collins does a great job with the main characters reflecting how flawed we are as humanity, even with inherent good in all of us. I managed to avoid spoilers for this, so several of the main points were shocking to me-even though I knew the eventual outcome for Snow, I had no clue how he'd get there. I think it was a great look into how even someone with inherent goodness can repeatedly make the wrong choice in interest of power and greed for themself. It also gives a lot of perspective into how Snow behaves in the other three books. I always feel like these books cause me to look inward and at humanity as a whole, and this book was no different. 
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