A review by merelbennet1910
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins
2.0
I could write better fanfiction than this...
First of all, I get that the 10th hunger games wasn't as fancy as the 74th, but I thought it was pourly done nonetheless. A lot of technology might have been lost during the war, but it has been 10 years... There could at least have been more camera's in the arena. And they could all have the same uniform or something, to keep it coherent. How did they even leave Al the tributes to die before the games? That is supposed to be the idea during the games right, not before it. You can't tell me that they have been doing it like this for 10 years... And do you really not gain anything when you win? What's that about. I also hated that half the tributes had already died before the games begun.
I didn't like Lucy Gray at all, nor the effect she had on Snow. Their conversations where boring, I didn't feel much chemistry.
On a more positive note, I was surprised by the third part. Up and until the Snow and Sejanus moment. We all knew Snow was gonna be a dick, but I expected something to happen that made him who he was in the original story. Turns out he was an ass by birth. The ending was very fast-paced, while the beginning was so slow...
But now something that I actually did like! The originstory of The Hanging Tree and hearing Deep in the Mellow again was really nice. Although I did listen to the audiobook, in which they could better have just spoken the songs in my opinion.
First of all, I get that the 10th hunger games wasn't as fancy as the 74th, but I thought it was pourly done nonetheless. A lot of technology might have been lost during the war, but it has been 10 years... There could at least have been more camera's in the arena. And they could all have the same uniform or something, to keep it coherent. How did they even leave Al the tributes to die before the games? That is supposed to be the idea during the games right, not before it. You can't tell me that they have been doing it like this for 10 years... And do you really not gain anything when you win? What's that about. I also hated that half the tributes had already died before the games begun.
I didn't like Lucy Gray at all, nor the effect she had on Snow. Their conversations where boring, I didn't feel much chemistry.
On a more positive note, I was surprised by the third part. Up and until the Snow and Sejanus moment. We all knew Snow was gonna be a dick, but I expected something to happen that made him who he was in the original story. Turns out he was an ass by birth. The ending was very fast-paced, while the beginning was so slow...
But now something that I actually did like! The originstory of The Hanging Tree and hearing Deep in the Mellow again was really nice. Although I did listen to the audiobook, in which they could better have just spoken the songs in my opinion.