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

2445 reviews

lauraa_mariee's review against another edition

5.0

challenging 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

oddsoda's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

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

limabeanie's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad 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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This book will rip your heart to smithereens. Part 3 does require (demand) tissues. IMHO you have to read the other books in the series (including The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) before you touch this one for the full experience. Suzanne killed me but it was worth it. The movie in production is going to break me but dang it take my money.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol

Everybody you love dies. Except the main character. Also somebody is beheaded and eaten by squirrels. I hate squirrels.

corey_borey's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Addiction

blackeyedraptor's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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I might be biased, because the Hunger Games was very much a big part of me teenage and young adult life and I still love those books. 
Also I loved the previous book revolving on Snow as a young man. I liked this one even better, now this one is far darker than any of the previous books, it's definitely an adult book. But oh my God, it makes Haymitch so much more human. I need to go read the original trilogy now to see what little behind the pieces are there for him. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Trafficking

theklutzybibliophile's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I cried at least ten times while reading this book. Absolutely my favorite out of all of the Hunger Games books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence

sophia_t_m's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail

a_sleepy_berry's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: Complicated

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Absolutely heartbreaking and devastating. Poor Haymitch deserved so much better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

noahisblue's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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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Collins has done it again, this was a great addition to the hunger games series. Hilariously heavy handed in foreshadowing haymitch's drinking problem. His life is much more tragic than I'd imagined and makes his fall from a relatively upbeat kid to a jaded cynic that much sadder

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

elle_est_belle's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Collins certainly had a tough job in front of her: writing a prequel we already know the conclusion to. Every character other than Haymitch is more doomed by the narrative than usual, so it's hard to connect to them. Still, a few stand out as memorable. The most annoying part is her writing style, which has this uncanny ability to interrupt a scene or dialogue exchange for a paragraph or two of exposition; she's aware that there's an audience, and it shows. As the narrator, Haymitch comes awfully close to fourth-wall breaks on several occasions and even smashes right through in an early chapter to make sure we know he has 21st century opinions. Even then, the last couple chapters and the epilogue were tough to read, but worth the slog to get there. It doesn't really end so much as stop, but maybe after everything Haymitch has been through, that's the best we could hope for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Police brutality