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Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

849 reviews

laurelcloud's review against another edition

3.5

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Sometimes when I finish a book and I don't know what I'm feeling about it, I like to check out other reviews to see what opinions resonate with me. I finished this book having really enjoyed it but also feeling unsure and I gotta say, the negative reviews have really convinced me this time.

As a standalone, this book is pretty decent. The characters are a little blank and it just feels like one of those super easy, quickly digestible YA reads. But it also doesn't really work as a standalone, naturally, falling somewhere in the middle of a 5-part series. And it also does NOT work with the series.

It really overuses characters from previous books to give itself credibility but that doesn't hold the book up. It's kind of just a bad rewrite of the first Hunger Games book if I'm honest. Very formulaic and predictable. Suzanne Collins really lost the magic with this one. I mean, it was sputtering out pretty badly with the previous book but this one absolutely doused it.

I'll still watch the movie and I still love the original trilogy but the more she adds on to it, the sloppier it gets unfortunately. I don't regret reading it, I did still enjoy it. Let me be clear, Suzanne Collins' mediocrity is still better than a lot of people can ever hope to be. But it did not feel like a true Suzanne Collins masterpiece.

Read at your own discretion and temper your expectations. It'll still break your heart, just like 10% of the usual amount for this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

thatboyadrian's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective 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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It took me a while to finish this book because it was making me depressed. The themes were hitting a little too close to home with our current political climate. But this is an amazing book. I loved all the callbacks and nods to the previous books, especially to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Sunrise on the Reaping perfectly shows how Haymitch went from a normal teen to the cold-hearted drunk we met in The Hunger Games.

It also perfectly shows the seeds being planted for the rebellion in Catching Fire and Mockingjay. You can tell how much they learned from Haymitch's attempts and planned better for when the time came. While reading I couldn't help but be in awe of how many parallels existed between Haymitch and Katniss. They both made money doing something illegal. They weren't actually reaped. They both received rare scores. Haymitch told Katniss and Peeta pretty much the exact advice that Wiress gave him for surviving.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Torture

Minor: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

These games have some horrifying and heartbreaking deaths, probably because we actually know the characters better. I cried while reading this, prepare yourself accordingly.

lucialockleymorante's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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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Sunrise on the Reaping is set during the 50th Hunger Games - Haymitch Abernathy's games. This book dives into that brutal arena, exploring not just the games themselves, but the crumbling moral fabric of a society built on spectacle and control. Honestly? This book was traumatising -but in that kind of way that you can't put it down. I'd go so far as to say it's Collins' most emotionally intense and well-written book yet. It connects so cleverly to the original trilogy and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, but not in a heavy-handed or obvious way. Instead, it weaves everything together into a fuller, darker picture of Panem's evolution. One of the best parts was getting to know Haymitch on a deeper level. His relationship with Louella was heartbreaking and beautiful - it mirrored the dynamic he later has with Katniss, but you could feel how much more raw and unfiltered this version of him was.

That scene when Haymitch places Louella's dead body in front of Snow and CLAPS, absolutely gut-wrenching. It wasn't just powerful; it was poetic and deeply unsettling. That moment alone gives this book 5 stars.

Would I recommend this book? Abso-f***ing-lutely... if you want to be traumatised and emotionally wrecked in the best, most Suzanne Collins way possible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Alcoholism

moonitious's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

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

fabigz0308's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective 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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burning and drowning in loving you—like all-fire.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts

maddyshelley's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma

mrbrant's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This was harder to read than past books with everything going on in the world. It offered some interesting backstory on characters we know from the other books, in particular Haymitch, but it doesn’t really offer anything new or especially interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

klsturm's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional sad 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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Absolutely gut wrenching, beautiful, and tragic. You see why Hamitch is the way he is in stark detail. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Grief, War, Classism

niamhzorina's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Suzanne Collins kills it every time! Fantastically harrowing book. I'm glad Haymitch's story has finally been told, and it was great to see the beginnings of some very well loved characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Police brutality, Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, War, Classism

sarahmreads's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture