vintagestarship 's review for:

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

3.75

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This book did a good job making a dictator seem... if not sympathetic, than understandable. I can appreciate the difficulty of writing a unanimous villain as a protagonist. The ending felt pretty abrupt - Corio spends so much of the book strategizing his next move and then he just... decides to run into the woods? Hmm.