Leda’s Reviews > The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes > Status Update

Chilling. Loving it. What's striking to me is that the quality of writing is so simple it feels below average. Where I once considered it off-putting, now it's easy to see it's a perfect choice as it both enhances the concepts – all brilliant from Roman naming to colony-empire relationships, the allegories are genius, the world building is a masterpiece – and makes it readable for young people and non-readers. Genius