The ballad is not a love story

My thoughts on the newest Hunger Games tale

Historically a ballad is a way of telling a story. A little song and a little rhyme, a way to recount history or to entertain in the dark nights of days past. Ballads often contain tragedy, maybe of the protagonist's own making.

When I first read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes I understood that it was a prequel to the massively successful Hunger Game…