Suzanne Collins is a writer. Being a writer is obviously what she was meant to be in this world. Her writing is comforting and it draws you along. The one good thing about having a fleeting memory is as the plot unfolded the discoveries of Haymitch were brand new to me. I literally cried at the end because fuck Snow.

The plot felt rushed and there was name dropping galore. While reading I thought the pacing was off, and I hold to that position. I understand that some people were a set-up for the original trilogy, but everyone and they ma made a cameo in this book. The epithets of poetry throughout the book became too much, my eyes skimmed over them (And I LOVE EAP). I would have liked to see more character development, or different characterisations of the characters that we will meet in the original trilogy because they were very similar - compared to how they were twenty plus years later.

Between you, me, and the computer I thought ABOSBAS was the better prequel. SOTR could have been left to the fanfics.