{"id":12203,"date":"2023-12-04T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosterlibraries.org\/?p=12203"},"modified":"2023-12-04T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:30:18","slug":"a-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-by-suzanne-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/?p=12203","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes&#8221; by Suzanne Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kylie recommends:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/em>&nbsp;by Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre:<\/strong>&nbsp;Dystopian <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reading Level:<\/strong>&nbsp;YA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;This is a prequel to <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> following President&#8217;s Snow origin story and the 10th Hunger Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kylie says:<\/strong>&nbsp;This was a really interesting read. It was quite long and I was not really sure were it was going even though you know that Snow ends up as President Snow. I liked to see Snow&#8217;s backstory and how the war lead to the creation of the Hunger Games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snow throughout the book but especially at the end gave me psychopath, anti-hero, and vibes of Joe from <em>You<\/em> by Caroline Kepnes and June from <em>Yellowface<\/em> by R.F. Kuang. These stories are very deep to me and I like to see how their minds work even though they do terrible things, and you know as the reader that they are wrong but how they rationalize their perspective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ending was so good, I could not stop reading for the last like 20% of the book!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>This title is available at Foster Public Library. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/61kMbMCmXIL._SL1213_-Kylie-Hart-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12204\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a prequel to The Hunger Games following President&#8217;s Snow origin story and the 10th Hunger Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_recurring":false,"_piecal_recurring_interval":1,"_piecal_recurring_frequency":"","_piecal_recurring_exact_position":false,"_piecal_recurring_end":"","_piecal_color":"","_piecal_text_color":"","_piecal_global_color_master":false,"_piecal_rsets":"[]","_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29,41,45],"class_list":["post-12203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-recs","tag-kylie-recs","tag-sci-fi","tag-ya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}