Snow is shocked to find, first, that his tribute Lucy Grey Baird has some surprises up her sleeve. The tributes are not treated as royalty prior to the games as they are in the trilogy, so soon tributes and mentors are dropping like flies, and Snow believes that Lucy may actually have a shot at winning. I don't want to spoil too much of the story, but there it is definitely a love story, and I was worried that Snow may actually still be likable at the end of the story, and then how do we reconcile that with the President Snow we all love to hate? Never fear, by the end of the novel, Snow is as despicable as we all know him to be. A satisfying addition to the trilogy.
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The book was fascinating on so many levels. The descriptions of different individuals and groups who choose to live in the wild and what they have to do to survive each year was supremely interesting to someone who spends all summer canning, and Hannah's characterizations are spot on. The family dynamics at play with the Allbrights was harrowing, as we see how Ernst's PTSD gets increasingly worse each winter and how Cora refuses to leave him, even if the survival of her family depends upon it. I found myself stressing out for Leni every time she decided to sneak out to see Matthew, her teen love and the son of Ernst's bitter enemy. I guarantee the novel will have you on the edge of your seat until the final, bittersweet ending.
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