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whatthedeuce 's review for:
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
by Suzanne Collins
**THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD SO AVOID IF YOU’RE NOT ABOUT THAT LIFE!!!**
I was actually relieved that this book didn’t go the route of making you love and sympathize with the villain the whole time and mourn the fact that they end up turning to the dark side. Like yeah, I do get Snow’s resentment at how he felt unsafe and shaken up seeing the war on his front door in the Capitol, but it also makes sense that he was always out just for himself at the end of the day. He was always about wielding control and touting the Capitol as some noble force that had to keep the lowly district citizens in line to avoid more rebellion. He never once understood why everyone outside the Capitol would want to rebel in the first place because he didn’t see them as humans AT ALL. To him and the other Capitol snobs, the district people are barely above animals and deserve to be miserable. They should be thankful the Capitol’s there to supervise them and maybe let them sneak some moonshine every now and again. The fact that the districts are supplying everything that keeps the Capitol at all comfortable goes beneath Snow and most other Capitol denizens’ notice.
I rolled my eyes constantly whenever Snow conflated his supposed budding feelings for Lucy Gray with ownership, but I also found it refreshing because I don’t want to read some bullshit where he’s magically transformed by love and then turns evil when he’s scorned or betrayed by some young woman. ESPECIALLY not when that young woman is someone he kept alive in a televised murder fest to advance his own standing at school and to ensure a spot at a university. Sometimes people are just cold and calculating and completely out of touch with anyone who comes from an entirely different walk of life. Even someone masquerading as rich, like Snow’s been doing for a decade, would still think he’s above Lucy Gray or anyone from a district.
My real issue with this book is how abruptly the ending comes. Like it makes sense for Snow to be paranoid and mistrustful to some degree since he’s never actually seen Lucy Gray as an equal or even a full human being (more like a pet that’s attractive and talented), but the turn-around when he suddenly thinks she’s out to kill him was written so poorly. Like laughably bad. It sounded like fanfiction at that point. He just starts to sound like some unhinged maniac jumping to conclusions all because he didn’t see her right away when she said she was going outside to do…whatever she was doing. I legitimately already forgot even though I just read it 30 minutes ago. I wish Lucy Gray actually HAD set snakes after Snow’s duplicitous, self-righteous ass. It’s the least he deserves.
I was actually relieved that this book didn’t go the route of making you love and sympathize with the villain the whole time and mourn the fact that they end up turning to the dark side. Like yeah, I do get Snow’s resentment at how he felt unsafe and shaken up seeing the war on his front door in the Capitol, but it also makes sense that he was always out just for himself at the end of the day. He was always about wielding control and touting the Capitol as some noble force that had to keep the lowly district citizens in line to avoid more rebellion. He never once understood why everyone outside the Capitol would want to rebel in the first place because he didn’t see them as humans AT ALL. To him and the other Capitol snobs, the district people are barely above animals and deserve to be miserable. They should be thankful the Capitol’s there to supervise them and maybe let them sneak some moonshine every now and again. The fact that the districts are supplying everything that keeps the Capitol at all comfortable goes beneath Snow and most other Capitol denizens’ notice.
I rolled my eyes constantly whenever Snow conflated his supposed budding feelings for Lucy Gray with ownership, but I also found it refreshing because I don’t want to read some bullshit where he’s magically transformed by love and then turns evil when he’s scorned or betrayed by some young woman. ESPECIALLY not when that young woman is someone he kept alive in a televised murder fest to advance his own standing at school and to ensure a spot at a university. Sometimes people are just cold and calculating and completely out of touch with anyone who comes from an entirely different walk of life. Even someone masquerading as rich, like Snow’s been doing for a decade, would still think he’s above Lucy Gray or anyone from a district.
My real issue with this book is how abruptly the ending comes. Like it makes sense for Snow to be paranoid and mistrustful to some degree since he’s never actually seen Lucy Gray as an equal or even a full human being (more like a pet that’s attractive and talented), but the turn-around when he suddenly thinks she’s out to kill him was written so poorly. Like laughably bad. It sounded like fanfiction at that point. He just starts to sound like some unhinged maniac jumping to conclusions all because he didn’t see her right away when she said she was going outside to do…whatever she was doing. I legitimately already forgot even though I just read it 30 minutes ago. I wish Lucy Gray actually HAD set snakes after Snow’s duplicitous, self-righteous ass. It’s the least he deserves.