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

Pied Piper!Lucy Gray is really stupid but whatever

“‘He’ll buy you if you let him. Or at least compensate you for trying to help me.’
“Buy away, thought Coriolanus, thinking of next year’s tuition.”

Lmao same

“Oh, no, he starved to death! Somebody get the bread!”

Coriolanus is such an asshole this shouldn’t be so funny 😭

“‘I think your odds get better by the minute,’ said Coriolanus, adjusting a hot pick rosebud in her hair. It matched the one on his lapel, just in case anyone needed a reminder of who Lucy Gray belonged to.”

Yandere!Coriolanus 🤔

Please tell me more about all of the food available at the open buffet in excruciating detail!

“With her dimples and hazel green eyes, she was prettier than any girl in his year, with the possible exception of Clemensia … But the idea of kissing her repulsed him.”

What does this have to do with anything?

So many bits in here remind me so strongly of how I used to write when I wanted to be edgy.

“He buried his head in his hands, confused, angry, and most of all afraid. Afraid of Dr. Gaul. Afraid of the Capitol. Afraid of everything.”

Ad nauseum.

Growing up and falling deeply in love with The Hunger Games makes me hate saying this, and I can’t say the same for the original books because of how long it’s been, but good lord is the dialogue bad. It reads like ChatGPT tried to write a fanfic.