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

by Suzanne Collins

[chrisoatham]

Suzanne, why. Just why did you write this. I was so disappointed with this story. You're taken back to the 10th Annual Hunger Games where Snow is a mentor, but just centres on him trying to get himself more attention because he is broke. He is confused with his feelings and falls "in love" with Lucy Grey from District 12 but not from district 12, yeah ok hun. You've known her like 5 minutes, it don't work like that. It just felt forced.

THE SONGS. SO MANY SONGS. OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I can understand the origins of the songs used in the Hunger Games Series, but SO MANY OTHER SONGS. They took up so many pages, it was just eh.

The Names of the Characters, WHY WHY WHY do all these names have to be flamboyant or Roman, is there really a need - it just made it hard to keep up with the PLETHORA OF CHARACTER'S in this book.

So much fluff, so much stuff that just didn't need to be written. This book is so confused on what is trying to be. It only really picks up in the last few chapters and even then was anti-climatic.

I had such high hopes for this book, loving the original series but yuck, yuck, yuck. YUCK.