Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel to The Hunger Games that follows Coriolanus Snow during the tenth annual Hunger Games. When I was in high school, I loved the trilogy series, not as much as Twilight, but it was a close second. So, coming into the novel, I knew there would be no redemption for Snow. How could there be when he’s a tyrant 64 years later? No, this was the prelude to it. And I spent virtually the whole book hunting for comparisons between the prequel and the original trilogy. It was an interesting book, albeit it took me over a month to finish.