The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a YA prequel novel to the dystopian fictional world of the The Hunger Games trilogy written by American author Suzanne Collins. Its premise is set 64 years prior to the events explored in the first book of the trilogy, 2008's bestselling The Hunger Games. The prequel is stylistically written in the third-person point of view, diverging from the original books of the series which are told using the first-person point of view of protagonist Katniss Everdeen.
