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I have lost track of the number of times I've read this.
It's as good today as it was on first reading as a sixth grader many years ago.
I wanted to like this. I really did, but it was not to be.
I made it to page 127, put it down for the night and it sat there for a day and a half. I just didn't care enough about any of the characters to go back for more. So, DNF'd at 33%.
I like a lot of YA, this wasn't one. The characters were flat, the dialog was pithy and there were no surprises, no sense of building excitement or risk. I continued listening only because I had a lot of busy work to do that could be easily accompanied by an audio book.
Monsters aren't born - they're made.
They are the sum total of all that happened to them.
Now we know where President Snow's journey into monster-dom began.
We first meet Snow as a more or less typical kid concerned with school, friends, getting into college ... he may not be entirely likable, but he is just a kid. A kid who already has his eye set on becoming President.
What happens in the pages of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes are the first few steps into what created the monster who eventually ruled Panem.
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