Another Hunger Games book!!! Yeyy! And it made me so excited about reading again, I really hope I'll get out of my reading hibernation / thesis writing phase soon, but this one motivated me so much!

The storytelling and book itself are great! So amazing to get more background on a few well-known characters and to get an understanding of

how, this early on, there were already efforts for a revolution

. I am not giving it 5 stars because I found it a little dull at times and the story line just too similar to the other books. It might have been necessary to show

how similar Haymitch and Katniss are

but I wish it was done a little differently. I don't know. Going to discuss this in my little book club soon and can't wait to hear the other people's opinions.

Also, I really wonder why there is so much poetry/songs. Does it do anything to the other readers? Do I have to read between the lines and get a deeper understanding of the whole book if I do? I was skipping them sometimes because I just did not understand what exactly they were adding, but I wonder if I might be missing out.