The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

You know the sentiment when you are sitting in an unnecessarily long meeting and think “this could have been an email”? Well, this could have been a novella. Instead it's drags you along and loses it's momentum all the time through repetition. Coriolanus is unlikable, which isn't a bad thing - I love me a good villain - but being stuck in his head for 500 pages is too much, too frustrating and not exciting enough. He's too much of a wimp. He's giving major Draco Malfoy in his third year vibes. But without moving on from it. While I enjoying being back in this world and appreciated all the little easter eggs, I wish this book was half as long.