I enjoyed the story but didn't like the ending. There were lots of ups and downs throughout the story. But the end felt like it was cut short. Some of the twists at the end felt like they were just trying to hurry up and end the book. In a way, this book felt like multiple stories tied together. ( )

3.5
Stone cold snow the narcissist.
I really enjoyed the hunger games series so I picked this up - but being in Snows POV wasnt that great, plus it could have been cut down to improve pacing.
I still read it in one sitting but you can definitely skip it and just read hunger games. ( )

Not me reading this and somehow thinking that Snow would be a good person, after literally *just* having finished rereading the original trilogy. ( )

Ich schwanke zwischen 3 und 4 Sternen... Der erste Teil während der Hungerspiele hat mir sehr gut gefallen, das hat mich wirklich gefesselt. Warum mir dann der Rest nicht so gut gefallen hat kann ich gar nicht so genau sagen. Zu viele Zufälle vielleicht? Wobei der Charakter von Coriolanus Snow sehr schön hervorgearbeitet wird. Er ist auch als junger Mann schon echt skrupellos... ( )

Since finished, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this one bit of dialogue that Sejanus gives Coriolanus when they're peacekeepers in district 12. Basically Sejanus goes 'I remember that about you. How in school, you’d watch people and pretend you're not watching then choose when to involve yourself.' Paraphrasing, not a direct quote. I've tried putting it into words but end up waffling each time.

Think it's b/c of the book being told from Snow's perspective that I got as much whiplash from it. Cause throughout the book, it's shown that Coriolanus doesn't give much thought to those around him unless they can be of use to him. He thinks of people akin to pawns. Furthermore, the facade that he uses as a sort of armor isn't fail proof. There's too many cracks in it to the point it's more porcelain than chainmail. And it reminds me, the reader, that I don't truly know anything about Sejanus other than what Snow has given me. And he's never been the most reliable narrator, not even in the original trilogy.

Could possibly parallel that of the future version of him & Coin, where he focuses so much on Katniss that he doesn't see that Coin is using Katniss as a misdirect. That he focused so much on Lucy Gray that he missed Sejanus. But thinking all this, I feel just as paranoid as he does at that moment. Cause not everything in this book is directly correlated to Katniss. Granted this has probably been hashed out seeing how late to game I am. Or it some captain obvious shit.

All that said, I think Collin’s did a marvelous job interweaving elements from the original trilogy into this story while making it a separate story. ( )