The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)

\r\n\r\n\r\n Everything you would expect from Collins is\r\n here: fraught teenage love; plenty of violence... the themes of\r\n friendship, betrayal, authority and oppression will please and thrill\r\n The Guardian \r\n It works beautifully... please dont\r\n make us wait another decade The Times\r\n\r\n \r\n Ambition will fuel him.\r\n Competition\r\n will drive him.\r\n But power has its price.\r\n\r\n It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth\r\n annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus\r\n Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games.\r\n The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its\r\n fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able\r\n to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor\r\n the winning tribute.\r\n\r\n\r\n The odds are against him. Hes been given the humiliating assignment\r\n of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest\r\n of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - ; every\r\n choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph\r\n or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside\r\n the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute...\r\n and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire\r\n to survive no matter what it takes.\r\n\r\n\r\n Three books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon,\r\n The Hunger Games changed the face of global YA.