NPR book editor petramatic shares her book suggestions for summer reading, including: 📖 'Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' - Suzanne Collins 📖 'Get a Life, Chloe Brown' - Talia Hibbert 📖 'The Giver Quartet' - Lois Lowry
"If you remember, President Snow was — up until the very last minute — the Big Bad of the original Hunger Games series, and he was pretty gruesome with his bloody breath and his fixation on roses. So this is his backstory, and Collins does an interesting job of building the world of Panem just after the rebellion, long before the Capitol was the sort of glittering, Nero's Rome palace of decadence it became.
And if you enjoy it, the sequel is out next month, about Chloe's sister Dani.""I feel slightly odd recommending this series because I feel like EVERYONE ought to have already read it — but if you haven't, get you to a library! Lois Lowry’s The Giver is the grandmommy of the recent YA dystopia boom, and once you've read it, you'll see its influence all over the place.
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