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Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

1595 reviews

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

kdelhan's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This felt like an elevated fanfic to please the audience after the success of the original trilogy with the clear mission of immediately adapting it into a movie, but I'm not complaining! I thought it was great - not as good as the original trilogy but lightyears ahead of the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, with plenty of callbacks and tie-ins. It was fun to see how the story unfolded when you already know how it ends.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

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

christines_bookshelf's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional 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: No

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This book gave me so much nostalgia from reading the original trilogy. I throughly enjoyed this read, but boy oh boy did the author make each death more gut-wrenching than the last. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Grief

miagic_tome's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad tense

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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God. That sucked. I cried on page 32 and it was only downhill from there

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit

Minor: Rape, Suicide

scr1bblecat's review against another edition

5.0

dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail

crissyj's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional 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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I will never forgive Suzanne Collins for writing this book. I should be sleeping peacefully in my bed and instead I am ugly sobbing in my bathroom. I literally can’t breath from how clogged my nose is. This book was so good, but so completely devastating. Of the Hunger Games books, this is without a doubt the most brutal and viscerally heart wrenching. However, it gives brilliant insight into the work of Panem and how the rebellion, that we see in the original trilogy, started. Haymitch is such a wonderfully complicated character and this insight into his life and why he is the way he is, though heartbreaking, truly is one of the best additions to the series. Although heartbreaking, there is an underlying message of holding onto hope in the face of adversity, because you cannot win the match if you do not play the games. It is important to do more than just sit around and watch, you have to fight for the change you want to see in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Confinement, Torture

Minor: Rape, Classism

goodstory's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Violence, Classism

dhrutibc's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad tense slow-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Suicide, Torture, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

cabbbagey's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional 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: No

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miss suzanne collins, you have done it again. my god i didn’t think you could hurt me any more than you already had but here i am absolutely speechless and SICKENED. 

the attention to all the tiny details from her previous books is amazing - everything ties together so well, and in a way that’s well-thought-out too. every time something was mentioned, be it minor like katniss’ father, or major like lucy gray herself, it felt like an easter egg! is this what it feels like to read epic fantasy series and spot familiar characters along the way? 

reading this book has further terrified me for the state of the world…. as much as i love ms collins and her work, i hope that she’ll never have another hunger games installation to write. it’s a silly hope to have but god.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, War

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