The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games)

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XD This book was right up my alley and the carefully hidden Slytherin/Dark Court faerie in me was a happy camper! But The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes makes it impossible to root for its protagonist because he is the ultimate antagonist, because we know what he will become. The mentoring system begins with students of the Capitol’s Academy, Coriolanus Snow being one of them.

Since then, Highbottom never forgave Crassus for this and adds that he sees much of Crassus' deceitful, manipulative nature in his son. I loved reading the moral based arguments that eventually abandoned themselves for a fear-conditioned dependency on the power structure between the districts and the Capitol.Gaul that voice record and even though he tried to reason with himself he ultimately knew that he had made the wrong choice. Gaul’s favorite acolyte and “adopted” by the Plinths, who finance his ventures and support his remaining family; they know nothing of his betrayal of their son Sejanus. There he learns that, while Highbottom did indeed come up with the Hunger Games, he never intended for them to become a reality.

Coriolanus’s mother died in childbirth right after the rebels bombed the Capitol at the beginning of the war. Persephone is one of Coriolanus’s classmates; she’s assigned to mentor Mizzen during the Hunger Games. A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.Gaul was actually my favorite scene, because I enjoyed the slow, dreadful dawning of what was about to take place in the snake habitat. what if everything that made the hunger games so appealing and well-done - the action, the satire, the quiet and subtle moments of revolution - did not exist here? Snow's family is bankrupt nobility, a contrast with his school rival, Sejanus, who's family is nouveau riche.

Yes, Coriolanus Snow is neither a hero nor an especially likable person but he’s cunning and knows how to use his strengths. He's selfish, ambitious, proud and generally doesn't care about anyone unless he can get something out of having a relationship with them - whether this be power, money or advancement in society.He then comes across former classmate and rival Sejanus Plinth who hopes to rescue a prisoner and flee as part of a plot—presumably to fan the flames of rebellion. As much as you pity his circumstances, and are impressed with his ambition, he would be distinctly unlikable even without the foresight of his future in The Hunger Games Trilogy. Snow wants Lucy, wants to possess her, wants her to be his — and wants it only as far as it suits his comfort.

It meanders here and there, bloated, unfocused, wordy, boring, misguided, treading the same water on and on and on, to the point of tedium. I never truly emphasized with him (cause, hello, he was appalling) but he was riveting to watch and provided such an interesting perspective.

Fans will be happy to hear that Mockingjay is every bit as complex and imaginative as Hunger Games and Catching Fire. She spoke to you, the girl who volunteered, the girl who defied her own self-preservation instinct to stand up for what’s right. However, his father, Crassus Snow, lost his munitions empire in the war with the rebels and died, along with Coriolanus’s mother.