Ambition will fuel him.
Competition will drive him.
But power has its price.
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth
annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus
Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games.
The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its
fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able
to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor
the winning tribute.
The odds are against him. He's been
given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute
from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely
intertwined - ; every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to
favour or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be
a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel
for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the
rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
Three
books, four films and one WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON, The
Hunger Games changed the face of global YA.
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.
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