I went into Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes thinking it would be a real eyeroller as I’m not to fond of YA dystopian sci-fi, but seeing as how the film adaption was around the corner and the time I sank into the Hunger Games trilogy (and being the unapologetic asshole who believes the words “the book was better” to be Mosaic Law), I said fuck it and gave it a read.
And I was surprised be how I wanted to keep going after the end of every chapter. I enjoyed getting into the head of Coriolanus Snow and his possessive infatuation with Lucy Gray and the inner working of Capitol class structure.
That’s not to say I don’t have issues with the book. The pacing is inconsistent, the actual Hunger Games are a relative bore, and some characters could have benefited from more focus.
But through it all, I don’t feel my time has been wasted reading it and am curious to see how the film adapts it.
Any books you’ve read that you thought you’d hate but ended up enjoying? Why?
‘The first to die at the end’ by Adam Silvera and this book is the prequel to 'they both die at the end ’ .the reason I thought it might not be very good is that I don’t keep very high expectations from sequel/prequal coz I believe the story deteriorate as many parts it has ( I don’t have such thinking coz of books, I’ve also read a sequel and I pretty much liked it, I just got such expectation from series and shows) but truly the prequel is better than the first book even though I dropped the book after not gaining much intrest due to the not so new starting, but it slowly becomes interesting and super addictive as you reach the middle of the book😊.