Tag: prequel
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Kill Joy Book Review
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is not looking forward to her friend’s 1920s-themed murder mystery party. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder. As Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue by clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn’t the only…
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Sunrise on the Reaping Book Review
When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12,…
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The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Book Review
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus…
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Movie Review
Coriolanus Snow, an 18-year-old student at the Academy, the most prestigious high school in the Capitol, is assigned, with 23 other students in his grade, to mentor the 24 tributes of the 10th Hunger Games, where the winning tribute’s mentor will be awarded the Plinth Prize, a full-tuition scholarship to university. Coriolanus, son of the…