The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

I did not love this book like I did the Hunger Games when I first read those books. This book is the prequel to that series, about President Coriolanus Snow when he was a teenager, so it provides some interesting backstory to the Hunger Games, but it was missing the fun romance and any sort of likable and relatable characters that you get in the original trilogy. I really disliked Coriolanus, felt no interest in his romance, and I felt like the ending was weird. I had to force myself to finish it, honestly.