It is a frightening view of adolescence that accepts constant surveillance as a norm. Nefarious tactics are put into play without question deaths are barely registered. Snow and his fellow mentors are always thinking about how they look on screen, how their actions will be judged. Coriolanus sees his chance to gain glory back for his family name, his eyes firmly fixed on the cash prize and his future career.Įverything you would expect from Collins is here: fraught teenage love plenty of violence character names untethered from their contexts (Fabricia Whatnot Satyria Click) and a pervasive awareness of the power of media. He must guide her to win, pleasing both the spectators and his teachers. The teenage Coriolanus is chosen to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, an eccentric vagabond singer who has been picked as a tribute from District 12. The Games are in their 10th year, and losing their audience those in charge decide to bring in mentors from the city’s elite to increase engagement. Now, with the rebellious Districts quelled, the once-powerful Snows live a precarious existence in a penthouse apartment, concealing their poverty from the rest of the city’s aristocracy. Nature, nurture, or both?Ĭapitol has emerged triumphant from a civil war. Fans will remember Coriolanus Snow as the psychotic president of Panem here we discover his backstory in a novel that discusses the corrupting influence of the societies into which Collins’s characters are born. In this sleek, well-constructed prequel, we delve into the early years of this grim contest. Adolescents are chosen to fight each other to the death in a televised competition. Suzanne Collins’s bestselling dystopian Hunger Games trilogy is set in a future America, Panem, whose capital city Capitol extorts a terrible annual tribute from the 12 Districts it rules.
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