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Characters You Can't Stop Thinking About With personality and charm you can only find in 2D, meet...
This Idea Must Die
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Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The...
Somewhere Out There: Indie Authors In Support of Immigrant Families: A Charity Anthology
Blaire Edens, Erin Hayes , Margo Bond Collins, Victoria Pinder, Deb Christie, Skye Malone, Krystal Runkis and Victor Marrone
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Sometimes an anthology is more than a collection of great stories. This anthology is about...
The Ash Doll
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The past had been buried. But now someone has remembered . . . Prolific lawyer Charlie Priest has...
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
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Lady Chatterley's Lover. The Blue Lagoon. Portnoy's Complaint. The Da Vinci Code. For the last...
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
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Putting gamers in the cockpit of the most advanced war planes ever developed, ACE COMBAT 7: Skies...
A Plague Among Us (Mimi Goldman Chautauqua Mysteries #8)
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When Al Martin, the editor of a satiric newspaper in Chautauqua, N.Y., reportedly dies of COVID-19,...
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Whichever Way The Road Leads (The Eastman Saga #1)
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Meet Jesse Eastman, a young man from a powerful and wealthy American family. When he joins a group...
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2607 KP) rated A Feast Most Foul in Books
Jun 8, 2024
I enjoyed the first book in the series, so I was really looking forward to this one. I wasn’t disappointed. We are still in the novellas that started this series, so it is a fast read, but it doesn’t skimp on plot with plenty of twists that kept me engaged. I enjoyed watching the relationships grow for the returning characters, and the new cast are just as engaging. If you haven’t read the first book, be aware there are some hints as to what happened in that book. I also am really enjoying the light fantasy setting of the series. I’m looking forward to catching up with Jax again soon.
David McK (3843 KP) rated The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in Books
May 18, 2025
I watched the movie of this one first, before reading the book.
And, I have to say, that a prequel for President Snow - as portrayed by Donald Sutherland in the movies - was not my first thought on how Suzanne Collins could expand her world.
But that's pretty much who this centres on, with one whole section of the 3-part novel also set during the 10th annual Hunger Games which, here, are still relatively new and with large parts of the novel concerning how said Games could be made more 'entertaining' for the viewers in the Capitol.
Note I said 'for viewers in the Capitol', as their children are never selected in The Reaping to take place in said Games ...
Personally, I found Cornelius Snow (and Lucy Gray Baird, who he is chosen to mentor) to not be as strong or engaging a protagonist as Katniss Everdeen was. YMMV, of course.