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

2437 reviews

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

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

3.75

fast-paced

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was this a necessary addition to the series? no. was it still good/entertaining? yes.
haymitch is one of my favorite characters (along with johanna) so it was nice to get a fuller picture of his hunger games and his life/experience pre and post games. I really enjoyed his fellow district 12 allies and I really enjoyed ampert as well (ampert's death made me mad tho because one it was gruesome imagining it and two because I felt it was too quick/sudden). I enjoyed seeing more of beetee, mags, and wiress as well.
this was much much better than a ballad of songbirds and snakes but not as good as the main books in the series for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

making_a_cameo's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark medium-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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While it provides a much deeper understanding of Haymitch for Hunger Games fans, the story is very similar to previous books in the series and feels somewhat repetitive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder

Minor: Suicide

mhb2024's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

holljoll's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Police brutality, Medical content, War

emvosey27's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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all the propaganda stuff was eerily pertinent. the whole book really made u think abt why people submit to things and accept situations they are satisfied with and the role of propaganda and manipulation in that. loved the cameos even if they were perhaps a bit fanservicey.

loved haymitch and snow interacting esp about the covey snow when i catch you

the ending didn’t feel quite as impactful as tbosas, i thought there would be a bit more explanation of how his alcoholism developed. but i did like the

peeta and katniss mention

preferred tbosas overall i think.all that being said the events being so close to the og trilogy kind of erased a lot of the stakes bc you knew exactly who would survive and who wouldn’t but then i suppose that’s the point of the hunger games books in general bc our reading experience watching these characters that we know will die like a car crash that you can’t look away from mirrors the experience of watching the actual tributes in the games. hm. food for thought. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage, Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, Torture

hesa_is_a_kiwi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-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: Yes

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this book wrecked me. you should 100% read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Grief

varaht's review against another edition

5.0

challenging 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

unityj's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous 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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It connected the original trilogy and the first prequel really well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail

autisticpoetryqueer's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was a great book. I loved the arena. It was fascinating (and heartbreaking) reading Haymitch’s backstory. I would recommend it to any fan of the Hunger Games series. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Police brutality

Minor: Rape, Suicide