Grace Heriegel

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Admittedly, I have already watched the film multiple times… but, as always, the book is SO MUCH BETTER!!

Snow is a carefully curated unreliable narrator. A character like this takes a certain kind of delicacy which Collins absolutely nails. She is the master of morally grey characters, Plutarch being my favourite (can you tell I’m currently reading SOTR…). In the book, Snow does – in my opinion – turn from a malicious villain to a morally grey man. You watch his descent into madness with the crazy justifications of his decisions.

And my favourite, FAVOURITE part of the novel – is when you realise he is entirely his father’s son. When he gifts the compact, ruins the powder and loses the picture of his family, the only thing left is the compass from his father. Perhaps, this was always meant to be his path. I do find it very curious about the different outcomes he could’ve had in life, very much relying on the difference between how each parent would’ve raised him.

Collins isn’t subtle at all. The book is so inherently political and that’s what makes it one of my favourite books of all time. Literature is meant to be political, to say that about the world and our society that we can’t coherently deal with or make sense of; to point out the faults.

I absolutely love reading different, wild and crazy theories on Lucy Gray. From people believing he actually drowned her body and not the weapons, to others stating how she never intended any of this and was always planning on going back to Snow.

I would love to hear any and all wacky theories either in the comments below, or on my Instagram @graceisobellebooks.