Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)

"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the best HungerGames movie of them all" USA TODAY"Everything you would expect from Collinsis here: fraught teenage love; plenty of violence... the themesof friendship, betrayal, authority and oppression will please andthrill" The Guardian "It works beautifully... please don'tmake us wait another decade" The Times pre-order Sunrise On the Reaping - the fifth bookin the Hunger Games series - coming March2025  Ambition will fuel him.Competitionwill drive him.But power has its price.It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenthannual Hunger Games.In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparingfor his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mightyhouse of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on theslender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit,and outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.The odds are against him.He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the femaletribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fatesare now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes couldlead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin.Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside thearena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and mustweigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to surviveno matter what it takes. Three books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon, TheHunger Games original trilogy changed the face of global YA.All three of the Hunger Games original novelshave been made into major feature films, starring Jennifer Lawrence,Josh Hutcherson & Liam HemsworthThe best-selling prequel to TheHunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirdsand Snakes, was a global number one feature filmin autumn 2023 and a number one New York Times and TheTimes bestseller in hardback in May 2020.  OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES The Hunger GamesCatching FireMockingjaySunrise On the Reaping - thefifth book in the Hunger Games series- coming March 2025 & a filmadaptation is slated for November 2026 The Hunger Games illustrated edition is releasing inOctober 2024