If you do not like reading songs in books this book is NOT for you. Suzanne Collins is a master of weaving interesting symbolism into her stories. It gives very 'a high schooler could dissect this for a class and not want to gouge their eyes out'.  I, in general, like to root for my narrator/main character, so it was an interesting internal battle going back and forth between ‘this is just a super traumatized  17 year old and i feel bad for him’ and ‘okay but this is president snow and i read the trilogy i know what he becomes'.  Overall this book gives a really cool background and foundation to the main trilogy and attacks similar societal issues but from a slightly different lens. It's interesting to see the ways that the capitol changes from this book to the trilogy and some of the core values that stay the same and ultimately drive the series. 

Overall totally read this if you want more info on the hunger games universe.