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

by Suzanne Collins

“You’re brilliant,” he said earnestly. “And the best cousin ever.” Careful to hold the shirt out of harm’s way, he hugged her with his free arm. “Snow lands on top!”

Snow and Tigris are cousins?!

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.”

“Because most of us are basically decent people,” said Lysistrata Vickers,

although seeing the Covey’s rejection of him was deeply satisfying. It confirmed that Lucy Gray belonged to him.

I think statements like this show Snow was already not a “nice person”.

In some ways, it had been better to have her locked up in the Capitol, where he always had a general idea of what she was doing.

See, already evil.