Well... Wasn't that a giant waste of time... 🤦 I'm not going to lie, I LOVED the original Hunger Games trilogy! 💪 it was violent and twisted and intense but god I loved it ❤ people died. Trauma lingered. It felt so real and almost an ominous prediction of humanities future. A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes..... EHHHH 🤷 it started off pretty strong and I was hopeful of discovering something that made me understand and appreciate young President Snow... I had so many hopes...and they all fell flat... 😩 This book was just lacklustre. In my opinion things didn't make sense and were just thrown in there to try and tie in with the sequels - it didn't work 👎 Nothing in this book redeems or really even explains the psyche behind Snow... He just... Is. And when you have such a despicable villain you really do have an opportunity to totally shift people's perspectives or even question their own humanity... But nope. The quote that comes to mind for this clusterfuck of a book is "if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything". There is nothing of substance to satisfy your yearning for more. It is still well written and I was so excited to be back in Panem and get some history on the games but aside from that? BLAH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #aballadofsongbirdsandsnakes #suzannecollins #thehungergames #presidentsnow #corilaniussnow #dystopian #dystopianfiction #yascifi #yalovin #book #books #bookish #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #bookblogger #bookstagram #booknerd #booklover #bookaddict #bookishlove #bookcommunity #bookclub #bookgram #booksbooksbooks #booksofig #bookworm #bookwormlife #welovebooks #readersofinstagram via @preview.app (at Sydney, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDkH8Jcgl4k/?igshid=ikyywab8njp6