If someone cannot be you, they will do everything in your power to put you down. It’s amazing how quickly this character went from admiration to envy to then tearing apart every single thing about her supposed “friend”. Kuang does an amazing job of critiquing the fake “ally” and how they are so blissfully unaware of how their “ally-ship” is fraudulent and performative, but from the perspective of that person. Newsflash, if you have to constantly state that you are not a racist, you may in fact, be a racist 🤪. Her whole life was a dumpster fire that I couldn’t look away from. One bad decision after another 😬 This book is a testament to a character piece, one of my favs from Rebecca.

Idk why this gets the hate it does, I liked it 🤷🏻‍♀️ I know people complain about the pacing, but after reading multiple books over 1000pgs long, that ain’t an issue for me 😬 The setting was great, and honestly had some pretty good prose scattered about where I thought to myself “wow, what beautiful writing” ✍️

4.5 ⭐️ “Don’t let them paint their posters with your blood. Not if you can help it.” Wow Suzanne, rip my heart out why dont ya?? If you weren’t a huge fan of Snow’s book, this one is much more reminiscent of the original hunger games trilogy IMO. Brutal, devastating, hopeless and full of symbolism like no other.

3.75 ⭐️ I def did not like this one as much as the first 😢 Overall the repetitiveness and predictability took me out of it. IMO I kinda wish this didn’t follow the “who will betray who first” and “is this real or deception” bc that’s essentially what the first book was about where it worked a lot better. The side characters also could have been developed a lot more, I hate how many new people were introduced, I got lost in it all. That being said, it’s still an entertaining, quick read!i

No literary masterpiece but just a fun ass time 🕺 Okay I literally haven’t devoured a book like this in such a long time. If I’m being honest, this brought me back to my HS days of all the fantasy and paranormal romances I used to read. Soooo with that being said, this book still has plenty to criticize so for the book itself, I’ll give it 4 stars. But for enjoyment , 5/5 HUNTYYY 😌. I was eating this up! So we will compromise on a 4.5