I really enjoyed this book. The explorations of nature and nurture and how people become products of their environments is endlessly fascinating to me. I really enjoyed reading through Coriolanus’ spiral downwards because you can see him grow more and more paranoid and coddled by his illusions of control. I love how he hates the mockingjays and how Lucy Gray loves them because they’re untameable and a chance creation of nature. It’s so funny how Coriolanus hates nature and how his hatred for lacking control, well, spirals out of control. I really love how Collins does her characters. 

On that note, being able to see all of the different characters be given more depth than they have in the movie was amazing. My favorite part of the book was definitely the first 2 thirds because we get to see so much of the tributes and Coriolanus’ classmates. They each have such interesting character traits that you can compare to Coriolanus, and that only grows more pronounced as Coriolanus grows more paranoid in the final third.