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Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

253 reviews

lia_lee25's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative 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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Before I start giant spoiler warning I'm going to try to use the spoiler feature but I'm new to using it so I might use it wrong. 

this book has both broken my heart and also healed a tiny bit of it with the ending. Suzzane is really so good at writing it's insane. The simliarites between katniss and haymitch became even more obvious reading this book. Both of them escape their pain in similar ways (haymitch and her both trying to knock themselves out. And louella was haymitches prim). It broke my heart how he drove everybody away but that is also literally how katniss was in mockingjay. Haymitch saying he wasnt a drinker at the beginningof the book broke my heart. Another thought i had this whole time is how they both so desperately tried to end their own lives but stayed alive for the person they loved. Mags is such a beautiful soul and im so glad we got to see her talk. Her and haymitchs relationship through the sponsor gifts reminds me so much of how haymitch tried to comminucate with katniss in the areana. This book really expanded on all the characters we already knew and i loved it. The main point was obviously propaganda and i think it came out at just the right time. Suzzane collins never misses.

Anyways, those were my raw chaotic thoughts right after finishing the books and I hope I used the spoiler feature right!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, War

jxrr_y's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-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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Felt a little too similar to The Hunger Games, but I guess what can you really do when the book is about a previous Hunger Games? It was nice to get into Haymitch’s character more (along with a few other familiar faces), and I think this has much better pacing than The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes did. I hope she writes about more past games (like Finnick’s, please!). I will read every book she writes in this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape

matarte's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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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A very important read, specially these days. Beautifully written, with so many references and parallels to the rest of the series, very sad but also cathartic... just a masterpiece.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail

tellyoumyshelf's review against another edition

4.75

dark sad tense fast-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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Wow. What a sad book! I gave all the other books (minus Ballad - that was 3.75⭐️) 5 stars. This one…maybe it was too sad, or maybe I was a bit Hunger Games-ed out after reading them all back to back, but I don’t know…something about it made it not as much as a favorite of mine. 

Still! What a wonderful, devastating book! I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who has read the original trilogy. Haymitch is such a better character than Coriolanus. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Please note, the content warnings here are not all “graphic.”

2busyreading's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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After The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (which admittedly I wasn't a huge fan of) I was hesitant about this, but my hesitation was completely unwarranted. Collins does not hold back from the obvious political message she had to make and I'm glad for it. The book is both brutal, beautiful, hopeful, and heartbreaking all at the same time. Given it's a prequel you know what will happen, but still you find yourself hoping against hope for a different outcome. Originally I had thought we didn't need a book about Haymitch's game, I mean, didn't we get told what happened and how he won in the original trilogy? But I was proven wrong, there was much more to his story and I'm so glad Collin's told it. 

This book shows that a revolution does not happen overnight, and while certain plans within the book do not succeed, they do start a spark for a larger fire to burn in the future. We do not have to accept the way things are and things are worth fighting for even if we don't get the end results we hope for right away, A message I think we all need right now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Gore, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Wow, you just know Snow HATES to see a tribute from District 12 coming. This book clearly explains why Hamish is the way he is in the subsequent books. The trauma and abuse that he experienced, how do you get over something like that, the PTSD has to be excruciating. I did enjoy getting to hear more about Beetee and Wiress’s back stories.  I need more of these books, especially Finnick and the others from the 75th Hunger Games.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

lyndann's review against another edition

4.75

emotional sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Gun violence, Violence

untakenusername's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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wish i was into this more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Classism

nott_kot's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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: No

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 I've read it, but at what cost...
Anyway, props to Suzanne, I think I never was gullible to propaganda thanks to Hunger Games.

Trying to forget is my full-time job now.

pre-read review:
I fucking LOVE Haymitch
But last one was a flop for me so I'm kinda worried a bit
Let's hope it going to be fire 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Slavery, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

danielledeal's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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What is there to say, Suzanne Collins has done it again. This is the first of the Hunger Games universe I've read rather than simply watching the movies, and I've clearly been missing out. Her attention to detail, the way the story unfolds was awe inspiring. Even knowing how it ends, I was gripping the pages to see how each twist and turn would end up. Don't start this book without a few tissues nearby! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, War