![]() ![]() and makes an even more shocking discovery: she’s not useless at all. When she realizes what is going on – the army is trying to find a cure by experimenting on human subjects – Ruby flips out. Being forced to live with Darius Spratt is bad enough, but if Ruby wants to stay she must keep her eyes – and her mouth – shut. ![]() When a chance encounter lands her back in the army camp, Ruby thinks she is safe – at a price. Three months after the killer rain first fell, Ruby is beginning to realise her father might be dead. “I’ll tell you a weird thing about apocalypses – a thing I didn’t even know until I was in one: they seem pretty bad, don’t they? Well, take it from me: they can always get worse.” ![]() Genres: Young Adult, Teen, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Horror. ![]()
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While the weather has changed, on this day, February 4th, it is hard not to go back to that night when my whole life changed, where my awakening into young adulthood was linked with horror and grief. This January in Prince Edward Island, we have had the kind of frightful cold snap that reminds my me of that childhood night of terror–though the cold has now broken into snow and storm. Here is a little piece on a special day: the anniversary of the death of my father and brother on a villainously cold night when I was fourteen, and on the eve of the anniversary of my mother’s passing in 2016. ![]() ![]() The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will hit theaters Nov. The last Hunger Games movie, Mockingjay: Part 2, hit theaters in 2015, but author Suzanne Collins revisited President Coriolanus Snow for the 2020 prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Collins, Jim Miller, Tim Palen and Mika Saito served as executive producers. Michael Arndt and Michael Lesslie adapted Collins’ novel. 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