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A review by chronicacademia
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I was expecting The Hunger Games 2.0 But Make It a Villain Origin Story and instead I got the world’s worst protagonist, too many descriptions of cabbage soup, and at least a hundred songs.
The world building was good. This book could have (and should have) been an almanac of information to expand The Hunger Games world about how the games developed over time, which would have been more interesting than 500 pages of Young Pre-President Snow complaining about how much his life sucks in the Capitol because he can’t afford his penthouse rent.
Also, this might be the first book I’ve read in preparation for a movie adaptation where I really hope the movie is not accurate to the book. Because if it is accurate to the book, half the movie is just going to be me sitting in a theater watching Coriolanus Snow sitting in a theater watching the world’s most boring Hunger Games.
I am so disappointed in this book.
The world building was good. This book could have (and should have) been an almanac of information to expand The Hunger Games world about how the games developed over time, which would have been more interesting than 500 pages of Young Pre-President Snow complaining about how much his life sucks in the Capitol because he can’t afford his penthouse rent.
Also, this might be the first book I’ve read in preparation for a movie adaptation where I really hope the movie is not accurate to the book. Because if it is accurate to the book, half the movie is just going to be me sitting in a theater watching Coriolanus Snow sitting in a theater watching the world’s most boring Hunger Games.
I am so disappointed in this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Ableism, Child death, Classism, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, War, Violence, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Death of parent, and Gaslighting