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

2436 reviews

moiragibson's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional 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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This book is absolutely brutal. Not that the Hunger Games trilogy wasn't, but this one tore me up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Rape

tbooks29's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol

onefineelephant's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging mysterious sad tense medium-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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9/10. Short review: very good but I did get a lot spoiled for me beforehand which took the punch out of some of the major events. Loved all the references to Ballad and Lucy Gray.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Death of parent

autumnwhite's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

persi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective 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 adore the way that Haymitch describes Lenore Dove with colors. Collins has done it again, and she keeps the narrative compelling even as we know the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Gore, Vomit

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, War

This book mentions a lot of fucked up shit—Panem is not a nice place to live—but Collins handles it all with grace. It is, after all, supposed to be a young adult novel.

jennagrant's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

easyj's review against another edition

4.5

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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Absolutely harrowing.

Especially those last two chapters, what a portrayal of descent into despair.

The epilogue was beautiful - sad but beautiful - very glad it was included. Otherwise it might all have been a bit much.

In several ways felt more like a sequel to Ballad than a prequel to the originals. Not a bad thing though. Loved seeing more of

The Covey

.

The character of Lenore Dove was great.

Felt very topical, timely, with the themes of propaganda and media+government driving the narrative through editorialising.

A lovely little authorial dig against generative AI! Quite on-the-nose but no complaints there tbh

I liked the incorporation of The Raven. Made it apparent early on how things would end with

Lenore

, though of course that was already predictable.
Perhaps it wouldn't have hurt to quote a bit less of the poem in the book and leave it as a thing to explore afterwards. Though it did nicely underline

Haymitch's final deterioration.

Definitely a good addition to the overall saga. Although the broad strokes were already known, plenty of surprises along the way, and a very poignant portrait of Haymitch.

If I had to criticise something, it did feel a bit out of character to have

President Snow

chatting to Haymitch about

those troublesome Covey girls as if he were a jaded old uncle sharing romantic advice lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, War

veskumelooni's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: War

passportofprose168's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad 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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A masterpiece! Suzanne Collins is a brilliant author and I will read every Hunger Games book she writes! There are plenty of easter eggs throughout related to both the original Hunger Games trilogy and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Haymitch's story is heart wrenching, especially since we already know where he ends up in the original trilogy. I'm very much looking forward to watching the movie when it comes out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder

michelleneer's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail