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Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

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Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

THE PAIN AND THE HEARTBREAK AND THE BRAVERY AND THE ANGUISH… I have no real words for Haymitch’s story, another fitting though haunting puzzle piece of The Hunger Games saga. This one perhaps the most painful of all. It’s a Linkin Park anthem and a Phoebe Bridgers ballad. It’s hurt and humility, power and resistance, and burning rage. 

But there would be no true mockingjay without the clever songbird and the rebel rascal of before, district 12 forever in Snow’s blindside. 

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Suzanne Collins said she would only write when she had something to say. And boy does she have something to say in this book. She speaks on the value of life, oppression, propaganda, wit, rebellion, friendship, found family, and greed. And what she has to say is powerful. It is also hauntingly heart-breakongly sad. And it was well worth the journey. The author is a master of character work. 

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Oh. My. God. This book broke me. It’s just a perfect summation of Haymitch. I cried throughout the whole freaking story, and the narrator for the audiobook was absolutely fantastic!!!

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what else did we really expect from the backstory of a man who we know as a depressed, hopeless alcoholic in the original series? what else did we expect from an author with a history of writing tragic child deaths and elaborate torture schemes? right, right.

sunrise really pulled me back into the world of the Games, which i hadn't touched (aside from the films, okay mostly just the second film) since maybe middle school? there are so many details that i'd forgotten, but what's different about this book, compared to the originals and ballad is that we already know that haymitch is going to be the victor this time. you could argue that narrators don't die and that it was always going to be katniss who won her games, but suzanne could have pulled a veronica roth if she had a mind to. i wouldn't have put it past her.

for probably the first 80% of this book, i was planning on giving it five stars, but the ending did not do the rest of it justice. we all knew that
lenore dove (and probably haymitch's family) was going to die somehow,
but i have a deep hatred for the way it all happened. it was cheapened by rushing and felt so flimsy next to the care taken in the rest of the book. i felt less gut-wrenched than just flat-out annoyed. i skipped a lot of the last 10% because of the poetry which slowed down the narrative and the borderline insane narrative pacing. 

there were also many many times when haymitch's logical jumps/internal monologue felt stiff and lacked real depth. i liked him as a narrator, but i think suzanne wrote him in a way that swung wildly from uninformed impulsivity to frozen inaction. he makes unintentional mistake after unintentional mistake, and it results in the deaths of an astonishing number of people. it kind of got old by the end? 

that said, suzanne's best work is done in the messages and themes of her novels, and boy does she deliver. her creativity in designing the arenas and the history of the Games has always been so impressive to me, but at the end of the day, this book (and the rest) is both a warning and an alarm. 

and while i'm saying good things, maysilee donner, the woman that you are. as soon as she said that line "if you let them treat you like an animal, they will" i was so sat. i bet she would have loved johanna mason.

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