Hunger Games fans rejoice, we have a prequel in our midst! The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes follows Coriolanus Snow—yes, that Snow!—during the tenth annual Hunger Games. Snow is one of 24 Academy seniors chosen as a mentor, but has been given the embarrassing task of mentoring the girl from District 12.
Read MoreOf all the books assigned in English class over the course of my high school career, this is the only one I read in its entirety. I remember relishing the dystopian setting and praising Huxley for his scarily innovative views on what the utopian future would look like, considering he wrote Brave New World in 1932. Naturally, I was excited to pick up this title for a bit of light summer reading, but quickly regretted this decision. Though the dystopian society was everything I remembered and more, I could not get past one glaringly abhorrent character: John.
Read More"In an all-too-realistic near future, the government has placed a limitation on the speech of women and girls - one hundred words a day. The price for exceeding one's daily quota is a painful electric shock administered via the counter adorning each female wrist…. If you had only one hundred words a day, what would you do to be heard?”
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