the owl and the olive tree

I agree with a lot of what you say. It hadn't occurred to me to have Prim die earlier so we could deal with the aftermath, but of course that would have been the more powerful book. Or even to go on to a book 4, or some hybrid situation--honestly, an entire book could have been gotten out of the post-Snow turn-over, and the assassination of Coin. Or at least half a book. I don't know.

I wonder if this is really what Collins was going for. I'm sure she wanted to portray the grimness and pointlessness of war, but...