{"id":21186,"date":"2024-02-28T05:21:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T11:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21186"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:48:25","slug":"book-8-of-52-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/book-8-of-52-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 8 (of 52) &#8211; The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BoSaS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21187\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BoSaS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BoSaS.jpg 220w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BoSaS-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Sixty-four years before the events of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/book-13-of-52-the-hunger-games\/\">The Hunger Games<\/a><\/em>, the future President Snow is chosen as a mentor to a tribute for the 10th Hunger Games.\u00a0 Looking to secure his place in the Capitol after the Snow family lost everything in the war, he skirts the rules, sneaking food to his tribute, helping her sneak in rat poison to enhance her chances in the arena, and helping her avoid the poisonous snakes sent in to kill the tributes.\u00a0 After his tribute wins the Hunger Games, he is found out and forced to join the Peacemakers, sent to District 12 and hopeful of reuniting with his tribute.\u00a0 He eventually finds his way back to the Capitol and finds himself on the fast track to power.<\/p>\n<p>A full decade after the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/book-7-of-52-mockingjay\/\"><em>Mockingjay<\/em><\/a>, the third and final entry in <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> trilogy, Suzanne Collins is back with <em>The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/em>, a prequel that takes place 64 years prior to the events of the main series.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t appear as though Collins had much success with anything else in the intervening years, which I guess explains why she went back to the well after all this time.\u00a0 The story, focusing on the 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow a mere ten years after the rebellion and the tribute he fell in love with, wasn&#8217;t necessarily.one anyone was looking for and one that moves very slowly.<\/p>\n<p>What comes next, both for Collins and the franchise?\u00a0 Nothing announced, and we are four years out from this book&#8217;s initial release.\u00a0 I guess we&#8217;ll see if this is now the end of the story for Panem and its residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, the future President Snow is chosen as a mentor to a tribute for the 10th Hunger Games.\u00a0 Looking to secure his place in the Capitol after the Snow family lost everything in the war, he skirts the rules, sneaking food to his tribute, helping her sneak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2246,793,11033,792],"class_list":["post-21186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-mockingjay","tag-suzanne-collins","tag-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes","tag-the-hunger-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21188,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186\/revisions\/21188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}