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A review by justliketitanium
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
5.0
So I read the entire Hunger Games trilogy in four days, seven years ago this month, and barely remember them, but the conversations I’d been reading online about the series made me very curious to read this prequel.
I really enjoyed it! (In a ‘this is interesting’ way, not a ‘this makes me feel nice’ way.) It is a well crafted coming-of-age story about a selfish, manipulative, classist, totalitarian, power-hungry man. When I first heard about the book, someone (in some impossible to find thread on some social media platform or other) said that we don’t need this story, and that they wished Suzanne Collins would write about someone more interesting, perhaps one of the many characters in the world with a marginalized identity, instead. But I looked at... you know, current events... and thought, maybe we do need this story, maybe we need to talk about how two people can see the suffering in the world around them and while one wants to ease that suffering, the other works to twist it to their advantage.
Anyway, I super hate Coriolanus Snow (this hatred reached a crescendo at the end, after starting the book with confusing sympathy towards him) and I think I'd like to re-read the trilogy soon.
I really enjoyed it! (In a ‘this is interesting’ way, not a ‘this makes me feel nice’ way.) It is a well crafted coming-of-age story about a selfish, manipulative, classist, totalitarian, power-hungry man. When I first heard about the book, someone (in some impossible to find thread on some social media platform or other) said that we don’t need this story, and that they wished Suzanne Collins would write about someone more interesting, perhaps one of the many characters in the world with a marginalized identity, instead. But I looked at... you know, current events... and thought, maybe we do need this story, maybe we need to talk about how two people can see the suffering in the world around them and while one wants to ease that suffering, the other works to twist it to their advantage.
Anyway, I super hate Coriolanus Snow (this hatred reached a crescendo at the end, after starting the book with confusing sympathy towards him) and I think I'd like to re-read the trilogy soon.