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

19 reviews

erika_doniecova's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

effyarrow_smith's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I actually screamed of excitement when I FINALLY got to check this book out. I’ve had it on hold since before it was released. It was fantastic. It was devastating, but so so well done. I loved the parallels to the original series as well as bosas, it was wonderful. I can’t wait to here the new songs with actual melodies :))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War

Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Eating disorder, Slavery

pandedead's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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It absolutely destroyed me. Haymitch lost everything, the plot twists regarding the other books and how even us as readers had fell for the propaganda the capitol spread about Haymitch’s games. Ampert deserved better, Beetee, Mags, Louella, Leonore, absolutely every single character deserved better (except for Snow, who is the most evil fictional character in a series, EVER). I’m speechless, I don’t know how to move on truthfully. It was absolutely PAINFUL to read and I still couldn’t put it down, you go in knowing everyone is gonna suffer and die but then it happens and it’s far worse than what you could possible have imagined. The author is a tragic genius. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

annorabrady's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Sunrise on the Reeping is one of the strongest books in Suzanne's arsenal, if you ask me. I love how interconnected Haymich's story is with the other stories without taking away from his story or making the connections feel forced. And a lot of questions raised in the other books find their answers cleverly worked into this book. Suzanne's worldbuilding is one of her greatest strengths and this book showed just how capable she is. 

A note to those who it might affect: if infant loss is a trigger for you, tread lightly. It's not a main plot point or described in a disrespectful or graphic, but it could be something that could be jarring to someone who is dealing with that more than the other deaths in this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

thebookwormcheme's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Eating disorder

tiredqueerwizard's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

abidavisf's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Suzanne Collins is a genius. There are no two ways about it. I wish she didn’t have to tell this story but I’m glad that, of anybody, we got to hear it from her. We are living in a world filled with the grossest of propaganda, lies are spread like wildfire, and the innocent are slaughtered daily. The Hunger Games is an excellent, thought-provoking and utterly gut-wrenching reflection of our society and should be mandatory reading.

I took a whole heap of notes, and there is so much more I could say outside of those, but I would give it away, so I just say: read Sunrise on the Reaping, don’t trust the media, and remember that no one killing innocent children is the good guy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Pregnancy

chiara_dose's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

kaylaswhitmore's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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wow. i felt—paradoxically—both young and old while reading this latest installation to the hunger games world. much of that is probably owed to both the ten years in between my first time picking up the series, and also to the now 60+ years we have spent in the universe between The Ballad, Sunrise, and the Trilogy. 

collins has done it once again, and this time I would even go so far as to say that it is maybe the best of the five books. though, perhaps a lot of that is owed to how familiar i already am with everything thanks to the previous four. regardless, i feel like she really hit her stride here. the narrative is so tight. there’s truly almost nothing left to clean up by the end in terms of character or story. it’s masterful how succinct she can be when delving into such an epic tale. even the characters i had never met before felt familiar and real, and i knew from very early on in the book that i was about to be devastated at the loss of any of them.

collins continues to circumvent my own assumptions of both the HG society as well as human nature. she has this uncanny ability to make even small moments feel important—make even small characters feel haunting. my favorite example of this was

when haymitch, wellie, and silka share a moment of pure grief and misery together, though separate. she somehow brought three characters who have spent very little time together into the same space, just to shatter my heart with their brief camaraderie.

Oddly enough, this is the second hardest that i cried while reading this book. it caught me so utterly off guard in that special way that collins has, and it truly will be unforgettable to me. i loved it, and im looking forward to the movie despite how the book broke my heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Rape, Pregnancy