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Los Juegos del Hambre 5: Amanecer en la cosecha by Suzanne Collins

308 reviews

annakh16's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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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This is Lenore Dove’s work. Her sign. Her message to me now. Her reminder that I must prevent another sunrise on the reaping. And it says “You promised me.” With that, she condemns me to life.

Sunrise on the Reaping is a fluent read that expertly develops Haymitch’s character. Something that particularly impressed me about this book is how frequently and cleverly Collins subverts expectations and assumptions I had about its plot and that of the whole series. SotR shows us the true extent of collective trauma between many of the characters, adding much more depth to previous installments. Some of the character appearances did feel a bit fan service-y/gimmicky, but they definitely made me want to return to the original trilogy.

While on the other books, I will say that I don’t think the political message hit as hard in this one. Based on how it was advertised, I was hoping for a more explicitly philosophical novel, but I think The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was more original in this regard. There is also a lack of subtlety - I understand why, but in my opinion, it’s not always to good effect. I did however love all the

Haymitch/Katniss

and

Haymitch/Snow

parallels and the reveal of

Haymitch being the spark to Katniss’ fire

. The musings on

the longevity of rebellion and the value of small acts of resistance

are probably my favourite theme of the book.

Overall, I‘m glad to say that this book does add something to the series and that I “enjoyed“ reading it (but oh, the pain!).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicide

maddy16's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Torture, Violence

Minor: Gun violence

ollygrace's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad 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: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

literarilylaura's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Alcohol

cgreaderbee's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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There’s nothing quite like a Hunger Games novel to rip out your heart and start a fire in your soul. 
Poor Haymitch. :( 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Murder

quinnpjd930's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Wow. Just wow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

mrsredfield's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Rape, Vomit, Police brutality, Suicide attempt

melfellrath's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

readingduckling's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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In my opinion it was more on the nose than all the other books in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: War

lisainher30s'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: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Each Hunger Games book seems to surpass the one before it, even over a decade later. These prequels hold absolutely nothing back, with absolutely horrifying deaths and gut wrenching ends to storylines - literally no one is safe and that’s evident in Haymitch’s story probably more than anyone else’s that we’ve seen so far. As always, absolutely incredible and dystopian fiction done only the way Collins can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol