Effie Fucking Trinket

Her POV it's kinda this: You are living your life without problems and being a Trinket. Your little sister is in a prep team for the Quarter Quell for the school. Suddenly, you receive a call from your little sister telling her that she's going to fail because there was a huge problem. You don't want your sister failing, so you go to help her. Because of your habilities, the current escort presents you to society like the savior for the District Twelve Team, and you can't say no for that even if you try to. You try to be unnoticed, but something happens again, and you can't help but assist the tributes, especially the tribute who help you with the makeup box. He wins, and you're too involved to escape from being part of the team. When your people treat him so badly, the only thing you can do is treat him with dignity like the victor he is, because he earned it. Months later, you receive an invitation to become the new escort since you were so good in Quartell Quell and you can't say no, you don't want your family name being depised again. So, you get on the train and you met the tribute now victor being a disaster for the tragedy (the lost of their family and her girl). You help him but it's not enough and he becomes worse and worse.

In this way, you and him are in the train and there's no way to get off.

Reading this book like:

Ok. We all know I love Capitol stuff and going into this I was apprehensive and then excited when I finally got the book because I wanted the world building and etc and I did get some of that. Fine.  But I have a lot I didn’t really like and so let’s go over that

+ Lucy Gray is 100%, straight up Mary Sue. There is no other way to describe her. She’s so MS that it’s distracting. I hate the songs, and her dress, and I even hate her name.   + The romance (?) is forced and I haven’t been less interested in a relationship since I saw Blackhat + reconning of Tigris who is now 85+ in Mockingjay, based on this timeline + Lucy Gray and the Coveys with an inexplicable Transatlantic-West Virgina hybrid accent + So many songs.  + not enough time explaining the stuff that’s interesting: the bombing of the arena, why Lucy Gray is so good with snakes anyway, the cannibalism, bringing up sex work again but not really delving into any of it… too much time describing food and rose powder  + Snow hating mockingjays for no real reason + I literally exclaimed “NO” when I got to the part about The Hanging Tree song