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Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

856 reviews

lizii1604's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Vomit, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

Oh my god. I’m left speechless. I was probably naive for having hope, for believing that Haymitch and Lenore would have some kind of happy end. Girl I was wrong in so many ways. My hate for Snow doubled. But definitely worth a read.

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

readkristeva's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking

juno_xo's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad tense 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: Yes

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this book was the most gut wrenching of all the hunger games books. I could rate this either 5⭐️ or non at all because of how devastated this left me. 
Suzanne Collins better sleep with one eye open tonight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent

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

mgeorge19's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I think ballad of songbirds and snakes might still be my favourite in the series but barely. This one still has me sobbing at the end 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail

cpersin's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol

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.

gemma_clare's review against another edition

5.0

dark sad tense medium-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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This broke me. I loved it. Suzanne Collins is a genius and her social criticisms are so perfectly done and forever relevant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

madeline_p4's review against another edition

4.0

dark 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: Child death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts