Rating: ★★★☆☆
I actually think this book did Snow's character very well. He is not an enjoyable protagonist to read; he's arrogant, overly ambitious, classist, cruel, narcissistic... but we already knew all that. It was interesting to see how the inner workings of his brain function, especially at such an impressionable age. So no, I didn't *like* Snow as a character, but I appreciated the way he was written, given that it was pretty consistent with his character in the trilogy.
Not all the characters were so great, though. I really liked Sejanus and Lucy Gray, but then all the other side characters were throwaway characters. All of the girls in the story had completely interchangeable personalities, which both made the book more boring and more shallow. Although this may have been a result of Snow's apathy towards other humans. I'm inclined to believe it was just that the characters weren't developed because the story itself isn't even a first person POV (it should've been).
The main reason I give this 3 stars instead of more is because it dragged soooooo much. And I didn't really understand the point of the story. Like... was this supposed to contribute something? That's not being totally fair though because we do get a lot of Hunger Games and Panem history: we learn a lot about the war, the beginning and progression of the games, and the origins of the songs that Katniss sings. But it just felt like the book didn't have a lot of direction, and it dragged painfully.
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