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Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol
I purposefully read this book 1-2 chapters per night to allow myself to fully enjoy the book and delay the feelings I knew I would feel at the end.
I remember reading the original trilogy when I was in high school and I read them in such quick succession because the story flowed so nicely into each other with all the detail and plot. While not in the same exact timeline, Sunrise on the Reaping had just as much detail and brought me back to a much simpler time where I didn't have to worry about the current government administration and fascism and feeling like I'm living in a Hunger Games society. But as a (somewhat) older and mature person now, I understand what is going on and understand how books ARE political and why Suzanne Collins felt this was what people need to be reading right now.
If you've read the trilogy before this book, you know that the only reason that Haymitch is around in those books is because he won his Hunger Games. (If you haven't read the trilogy first, imho you're doing it wrong.) I don't know what I expected his games to be like, but it was not this. I felt sad after most chapters but did not cry until the last two chapters. Yes, I ugly cried. My heart is absolutely broken because now I really understand why Haymitch is the way he is as a mentor during Katniss and Peeta's games. My heart really aches for him.
Dear Suzanne Collins, I am blaming you for my broken heart and I will continue to think about this (to avoid thinking about ✨gestures at usa✨) until my heart shatters when the movie comes out next year. I do hope the movie lives up to my expectations.
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Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, War
Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Suzanne Collins has done it again. She has given us a book where we know the ending and still somehow made it heart-wrenching, gripping and full of tension.
I have loved Haymitch ever since the first Hunger Games book, and getting his full backstory just makes me love him even more. We thought we knew what drove him to become the man we meet in the first instalment of the series, but there’s so much more.
Not only do we (finally!) get the details of Haymitch’s games, but we get even more layers of world-building, some phenomenal appearances of characters we know and love from the main series, and even more reasons to hate President Snow.
I loved seeing Haymitch’s games play out, and it was fascinating getting the real story and not only the one shown by the Capitol, and I loved so many of the tributes we got to meet, especially Maysilee.
I will say that the events in the arena lulled a little which slowed down the pace of the book in places, but each emotional moment still hit you like a punch in the gut.
Another cracker in the Hunger Games series. Now I need to go sob into a pillow for a while.
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, War
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, Alcohol
Minor: Drug use, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, War
Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Torture, Blood, Grief
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Death, Violence, Vomit
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Classism
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Murder
Minor: Suicidal thoughts