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Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

1135 reviews

emilybee728's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense 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: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault

jillcalvinandhobbs'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: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture

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

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

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