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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

Suzanne Collins

Start date: June 1, 2020

Finish date: June 30, 2020

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Apr 18, 2025 Susan rated it it was amazing

I didn't think I would like this book because Pres. Snow was a character I really didn't like and I didn't think I would care about how or why he became the way he was. I still don't care but I did like the book. Towards the end when we saw how brutal he could turn that's when I really liked the book.

I was surprised when he was a mentor to a tribute and the tribute was from District 12. I was even more surprised to find out he was sentenced to becoming a Peacekeeper after some of the things tha ...more

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Apr 21, 2022 Catsalive rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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Ugh! So awful. There was a lot to be irritated with in the Hunger Games trilogy, but at least it was a good story. This mess is incredibly boring & so very long, it could easily have lost half & been a better book for it. I don't care about Snow's motivations, he was a villain then & a villain now. ...more

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Dec 05, 2023 Keri rated it liked it · review of another edition

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This was feeling like a solid 4 stars, but that last third—the weird rushed ending, the lack of payoff for the looming dread, it felt like the book suddenly needed cut off. All of that sadly took me down to 3 stars. I’m still glad I read it.

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Mar 01, 2021 Marie (UK) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This book precedes the narrative we all know as The Hunger Game with Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellerk. A young Corialanus Snow at the Academy is a mentor for the first hunger games to be held on live television. The games themselves are brutal for both mentors and mentees. For me this is a book of two halves There is real pace around the televisual element of the games. around its competitors and mentors. The ending of the games and its victor is also the ending of several life plans. The seco ...more

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