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Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

264 reviews

lmdecker's review against another edition

5.0

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: Violence

Moderate: Child death, War

Minor: Rape

taylor_bb's review against another edition

4.25

dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“Like in one of your songs, my ghost will hunt down your ghost and never give it a moment's rest.”

“Promise?” Ouch. Ouchie ouchie ouch. 

Yeah, this was great and I have many thoughts. I really enjoyed this torture and pain gauntlet that Suzanne Collins wrote. Haymitch made me sad, I loved Maysilee, the arena was everything I wanted it to be and more (the eye reveal at the end had me in a chokehold), the quotes from the Raven made my literary heart happy, and the propoganda motiff was *chefs kiss.* Haymitch’s manipulation of the game is a precursor to Catching Fire’s manipulation??? LOVE!! President Snow is an evil bastard and I absolutely loved how this book showed how demented he is. The milk during and after the games?? The hacked TV playing Lucy Gray’s interview song???? Never allowing Haymitch to feel a moment of happiness ever again????? Thanks, Suzanne! Also, the epilogue was what really brought this review up from a lower score, because oh my gosh the feelings I felt seeing Katniss and Peeta help Haymitch heal with his own Geese because they’re his only family left and stop it stop stop stop. Ugh. The line about him being the first thing that they see when they hatch had me rocking back-and-forth in pain. Like I said, this was a great and totally happy time.

There were some issues with the book that I was a little suprised by. I didn’t feel that connected to Lenore Dove, which suprised me because I loved Lucy Gray, who she was definitely modeled after. The main issue I had with it overall was that it felt kind of… fanfiction-y? Listen I have no qualms with fanfiction, and I’ve dabbled in that sphere myself, but some things just felt like it was added in for fan service. I hate to say it, but the addition of Mags and Wiress seemed like a way for readers to go “I know them!!” Plutarch and Beetee had actual depth to their roles in this story, making their connection to the original series stronger, but I just felt like Mags and Wiress were just kind of… there. I did like how this book gave backstory to why Wiress has the issues we see in Catching Fire, though. Also, speaking of Plutarch, I was hoping we would get some more backstory to his pro-revolutionary tendincies. Now, it has been over 10 years since I read Catching FIre/Mockingjay, so maybe his backstory is told in that and I am just forgetting, but I was a little disapointted that he was already pro-revolution from the start. That may just be me misremembering the original series though. 

So yeah, I had some issues with it, as seen above, but it was overall a great backstory for one of my favorite characters from the original series. Like yeah, if I tried everything in my power to end the Hunger Games, failed, and then was punished for it by having everyone I loved die in horrible ways because of my failure, I too would become an alcoholic and hate everyone. Out of the entire series, in my opinion, this book showed the brutality of Snow and the Capitol the best, specifically how they would do anything to stay in power: by having eyes everywhere and by diminishing all feelings of hope. Some of the deaths in this book genuinely shook me up, and at some points I even felt helpless with Haymitch. I’ll leave my review by quoting Plutarch and Haymitch’s final conversation, which encapsulates the entire point of this story and just felt pertinent in general:

 “And maybe it won’t be realized today, maybe not in our lifetime. Maybe it’ll take generations. We’re all a part of a continuum. Does that make it pointless?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Rape, War

cryosphinx's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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More like Sunrise on the Weeping. 

You know you're in for in when you're tearing up within the first 20 pages. Collins again does her thing, and I throw 5 stars at her easily.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Rape, Suicide, Vomit

readkristeva's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking

heyitschloe137's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny 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: Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Drug use, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, War

lostinstardust's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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: Complicated

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It was beautifully written and I loved the ties to the original books and it's characters, it was certainly much more brutal to read and I found myself crying with the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, War

This is a great book! But be warned

there are a lot of scenes in which it goes into extreme detail of gore and violence by both guns and other weapons, dismemberment/beheading of characters, mainly young teenagers (12-16), and there are some scenes towards the end of the book where rabbits are killed by a snake in a glass cage. There are also mentions of a character who is in prison being at risk of rape, and some mentions of miscarriage in the past for one character. Also lots of poison and murder and angst. And one instance where a sharp needle almost pokes a character in the eye in a maze. There is a lot of detail about blood and people being blown up or cut in half, and the after math that follows.

hootypocket's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Rape, Torture, Police brutality, Death of parent

marley_b'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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

mirliz's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective 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, Death, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Torture, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Murder, War

isa_darlingg'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: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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most heartbreaking book I've ever read. 10000/10 my soul was stomped on, spat on, set on fire, chewed up, and then stomped on again for good measure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Gun violence, Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Terminal illness