The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

2010 • 528 pages

Ratings746

Average rating3.7

15

I'd forgotten what an engaging storyteller Collins is and it was fun to escape back into the world of Panem. I sympathize with the impulse to humanize and complicate Coriolanus Snow's character, but his development at the end felt a little forced.
I would also like to lodge a complaint regarding the audiobook. When books are part of a series, or have been made into movies, it seems logical (necessary) to have internal consistency regarding pronunciation. The reader for this book pronounces Panem more like the defunct airline than the dystopian world. He also reads every song in the same cadence (even when songs are recognizably from our time.

October 19, 2020