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Now that I've read Sunrise on the Reaping, I felt the pull to go back and re-read Ballad, and I'm so glad that I did! Collins does such a mesmerizing job dissecting this series from perhaps the earliest perspective we will get- young Snow. The character lives and breathes right on the page, standing out so differently from the feelings, motivations, and actions of her previous (although future, in canon) narrator, Katniss. The story itself is a mastercraft in timing, payoff, and illustration. Throughout the story, we're treated even further to the strong characterization of not just Coryo, but nearly everyone around him. It's been a while since I read this book for the first time, and to be honest I forgot how little we really hear from Lucy Gray herself. Maybe if I could say one negative thing it would be that- although even that I can excuse by the fact that the book is not from her perspective! I wonder if we will ever know more about her in the canon, her past or her future.
Now that I've read Sunrise on the Reaping, I felt the pull to go back and re-read Ballad, and I'm so glad that I did! Collins does such a mesmerizing job dissecting this series from perhaps the earliest perspective we will get- young Snow. The character lives and breathes right on the page, standing out so differently from the feelings, motivations, and actions of her previous (although future, in canon) narrator, Katniss. The story itself is a mastercraft in timing, payoff, and illustration. Throughout the story, we're treated even further to the strong characterization of not just Coryo, but nearly everyone around him. It's been a while since I read this book for the first time, and to be honest I forgot how little we really hear from Lucy Gray herself. Maybe if I could say one negative thing it would be that- although even that I can excuse by the fact that the book is not from her perspective! I wonder if we will ever know more about her in the canon, her past or her future.