The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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My first encounter with the Hunger Games was what I would call a normal college experience. Me and some friends decided to get high and go to the movies. After basketball practice of course! Homework and studying was usually done in the mornings during breakfast or between classes. I became a fan of the Hunger games adventure through my love for friends, weed and entertainment. Along with a perceivable attraction to Jennifer Lawrence. And the more I watched I saw how close the society that we live in today is too Panem.

After only watching the first two movies I decided that I did not want to wait for the next movie to come out to continue the tale so I purchased Mockingjay and completed the novel in days. I watched the movie as if turning the pages. I wanted the same experience with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes so I purchased the book a day or two after if came out and finished it in about a week and a half.

I was drawn in the entire time I was reading the book. It gives great detail and includes plenty of unforeseen outcomes which was considerable for me, because like before I am anticipating the movie just as much as I was the book. Knowing who Croyo was as a person in the later years of his life gave the book a certain confounding taste which I enjoyed to the end. And expectantly can continue beyond this book.

When the movie comes around I am eager to see the details laid out in the book about elements like the condition of the Penthouse and the appearance of the capitol and the rest of Panem so close in date to the end of the war. The differences between the arenas, the looks of the people, and the academy between the previous movies are all things that have me enthusiastic for the newest movie, but the end of the book to Snow’s timely death by riot is what keeps me charged for the the rest of the story.

There is so much more to this “not so” fiction venture!