Some things I noticed after reading SOTR
Haymitch blabs, like a ton, we get just a small picture of what 12 is like from Katniss's POV but it's more like her internal monologue. The entire time I'm reading the story it sounds like Haymitch can't physically say enough about these people he once knew.
The epilogue talks about how Katniss and Peeta eventually drug all of this information out of him and I really think it did come out like a geyser. He'd spent so many years trying to forget them hoping that his love wouldn't kill them like it did Lenore Dove or his family, Burdock, or more specifically, Burdock's daughter is all he has left even if it's just a mental thing
In contrast in TBSBS, the entire story is told from a third person point of view. I think that Collins did this because Snow inherently is incapable of being a reliable narrator. He's manipulative in the very way that he sleeps, in the way that he eats. There is literally nothing he does that isn't for people to see and react to. For us to actually get the true story it has to be third person. Haymitch on the other hand is dying to say anything at all, the fact that he gets too after all of these years is a blessing. He's safe, Lenore Dove is safe in his heart, and no one can take her memory.
