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

131 reviews

golightly21's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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I really think these books could benefit by being written at a more advanced level. I realize this is written in the first person from a teenager’s perspective, but the dialogue is often stilted and mature themes are only explored on a superficial level.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Violence, Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual violence

dtosca's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Damn get ready for a sad time. 5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit

jakepasseri's review against another edition

5.0

challenging 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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Collins writes this book so amazingly that it makes TBOSAS seem like a high schooler's first book. The drama and symbolism is dropping from the first page, you can feel Haymitch's hatred and disgust (and eventually self-loathing and trauma) in every word he says ans feels.

Well done Collins.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Abandonment, War

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content

zane_s's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit

jonssweater's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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 haven’t cried because of a book since I read Mockingjay and sobbed for the last quarter of it (or so). The exact same thing is happening again.

Absolutely sobbing as I quietly sang all the lyrics of Lenore’s song.

I feel physically ill. My head hurts. It’s past 2 AM. I’m staring at my copy of The Hunger Games and debating with myself if I should restart the whole series (I guess I’m a masochist). 

I’m never gonna be able to look at a raven or a goose ever again.

Suzanne, you mad genius.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Deportation

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Pregnancy

Grief.

charleepig's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Outstanding origin story that explains as to how Haymitch became the jaded character we know from the original trilogy. 
It is medium-paced at first, then becomes more fast-paced towards the middle of the book. I needed several days to emotionally recover from this book.

P.s. you get to briefly meet some more characters you already know from the original trilogy

Outstanding epilogue set post-Second Rebellion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Grief, Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture

Very disturbing description of the decapitation of a character. One character is described as holding the head of a character they decapitated, with zero remorse.

Very depressing, detailed description of the forced isolation of Haymitch post-games

ekgranstro's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage

trianglechips's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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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This was everything I could have hoped for of a hunger games prequel oh my lord. 

And I'm not sure if this next part is a spoiler but it probably will be so just in case:

My absolute favourite part of this book and both prequels in general is that the idea that the revolution relies on generations of effort.  Katniss was the figurehead and the 'girl on fire' but the spark was started well before that. And the metaphors of mockingjays & fire to illustrate that were so perfect. 

And of course Lucy gray continues to haunt the narrative, she will never be forgotten

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War

Minor: Homophobia

loveisabird's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional sad 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: Yes

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Gore

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Police brutality, Alcohol

juno_xo's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad tense fast-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: Yes

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent