From WSJbooks: A return to the dystopian landscape of the Hunger Games trilogy, where 'human decency' is a contradiction in terms. MeghanGurdon reviews “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”
“May the odds be ever in your favor!” The phrase entered popular culture in 2008, when readers went wild for “The Hunger Games,” the first installment of a dystopian trilogy by Suzanne Collins. With its teen-warrior heroine and gory mashup of Greek mythology, Roman entertainment and modern mass media, the book caught fire, so to speak, with the trilogy selling some 100 million copies in 54 languages.
The books are set in a high-tech feudal society, Panem, built on the wreckage of what was once North America and consisting...
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