The pacing on this was honestly poor, and I was disappointed that this read much more like a YA book than I think the OG ever did. Suzanne Collins you’re better than this</3 I couldn’t get a good grasp on WHY the characters did what they did and I LOVE a diabolical narrator. Instead Snow just seemed pushed around by everything in his life rather than the calculated villain he could’ve been, which would’ve been much more interesting. Also this read a bit like Social Contract Theory for dummies and there is just a much better way to do that than making a teacher literally ask Coriolanus “why do you think we need a state to control chaos?” A letdown to the rest of the series methinks, but intriguing to read about things on the other side