I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to, having heard mostly bad things about it. I thought I didn't care about Coriolanus Snow, but I found out as the book went on that I did.

I began with complete sympathy for him, which presumably was the author's intention, but that diminished as the book went on, and the extent of his arrogance, family pride and self-justification became more obvious.

The consistency in the world-building, and the setting of the scene for the original Hunger Games trilogy in this book is so well done. I really enjoyed this read.