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Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Broke my heart I love Haymich more than ever now 😭

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Wees voorbereid op emotionele schade! Dit boek heeft me gesloopt! Je krijgt zoveel empathie voor Haymitch en zoveel afkeer richting Snow. Ik heb het echt met Haymitch te doen! En ondanks de emotionele schade ben ik Suzanne Collins dankbaar voor dit boek. Voor de achtergrond van Haymitch's doen en laten in de oorspronkelijke trillogie.

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Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Hunger Games books get harder and harder to read the older I get. Suzanne Collins never fails to hit. I knew exactly what was going to happen since we get a recap in Catching Fire- you know that Haymitch is going to survive, but that made all those deaths so much harder. The writing/pacing of the book wasn’t amazing, but Collins brings out raw emotion and horror through the plot.

In terms of what this means for us as a society- Luigi Mangione read Hunger Games as a child is all I’m saying. 

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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ok i'll just get it out of the way right off the bat and say it was disappointing to me that suzanne returned to first-person narration for this. her prose in the ballad of songbirds and snakes was certainly not brilliant either, but it did significantly help mask her limitations with the facility of language. i've certainly read far worse written first-person stories (hello, twilight) but you've got to be soooooo good at writing for it to be not irritating on any level, even when the story is good.

which, of course, is the saving grace of the hunger games. it really might be the best story in YA lit of all time. i called for her to write a new book centering on haymitch's games not too long before it was actually announced, and i'm very pleased that i was so right for that. i don't think it was absolutely brilliant or anything, and though i've rated it a half star higher than TBOSAS i might still actually like that book better, but i think it was a very satisfying return to panem and re-contextualization of haymitch's character all the same. so i simply don't really get many of the criticisms i've seen of the book, to be honest. personally i'm happy to see suzanne keep writing new stories in panem for as long as she sees fit, though at this point i'd have no clue where she would set another full-scale novel now that we've run out of district 12 victors to use. i've said this before too, but maybe she could do novellas of the games of the former victors we saw in the original trilogy? or something that explores the underground formation of the rebellion? (those things could probably be combined somehow as i think about it?) something explaining how panem came to be? although the ambiguity of that i think has always been intentional, so that might be too much to hope for.

anyways! point is, though full books might be difficult to execute at this point, i'd take anything she wanted to give. so i'm just continuing to put that energy out there 👀

finally. sending all my forever love and adoration to lucy gray baird, who i was not expecting to still haunt the narrative this much forty years later, and was so pleasantly surprised to find was still basically an active character in this book. she is still alive out there in the woods i just know it!

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this book was the most gut wrenching of all the hunger games books. I could rate this either 5⭐️ or non at all because of how devastated this left me. 
Suzanne Collins better sleep with one eye open tonight. 

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