ars3n1c

It’s a bit of an unpopular take and just a personal frustration of mine, but I don't think the prequel-era books (specifically the Snow one, i am not interested in reading the Haymitch one) were very well thought out. I mean, they’re great — I won’t lie, they’re good — but the fact that Suzanne wanted everything to be interconnected or have some deeper meaning makes things feel kind of... tedious (to me). I would have loved to see Suzanne focus on any other aspect of Panem in the books besides the Hunger Games themselves.

It was just a personal frustration of mine, but when she announced the Snow book, as a law student, I was expecting something more political. I wanted to see the politics of Panem and its legal system—how he became president, his campaign, how he dealt with rivals, the election laws, whether there was a senate, or how he managed to stay in power for so long. Was he democratically elected? Did he stage a coup and become a dictator? I had so many questions, so when I picked up The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I was just like... 😐😐😐. Is that it? It’s good, but like I said, it wasn't what I was expecting, you know?

i honestly think that if there is another prequel it has to be about plutarch. with the way he climbed up the social ladder it would give incredible political insight into panem. and also, since he filmed a lot of the games there is an opportunity to see a lot more of panem other than the capitol/d12.