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

by Suzanne Collins

The world still thought Coriolanus rich, but his only real currency was charm,

Dean Casca Highbottom, the man credited with the creation of the Hunger Games,

“And last but least, District Twelve girl . . . she belongs to Coriolanus Snow.”

How to wrangle some success from a dress, a snake, a song?

“It’s just the kind of story that catches fire.”

AAAAAHHHHH

“Well, you know what they say. The show’s not over until the mockingjay sings,” she said.

‘The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird.’

he knew the odds were not in her favor,

Coryo was a nickname for old friends. For family. For people Coriolanus loved. And this was the moment Sejanus decided to try it out? If he’d had the energy, Coriolanus would have reached over and strangled him.

It suggested a tale that could only end in tragedy. Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate. A revenge story turned in on itself. A war saga that took no prisoners.

!!!!!!!!!

Coriolanus felt sure he’d spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.

The symbolism compared to the trilogy is ABSOLUTELY WILD

Clerk Carmine brought Lucy Gray a plant he’d uprooted from the lake, with pointy leaves and small white flowers. “Hey, you found some katniss.