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Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My favorite hunger games book so far. Haunting 

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During one of the times I sat down to read this novel, I was sitting in my backyard trying to absorb sunlight. I heard a bird chirp and land on the nearest power line to my house. It was dove-colored. If my bird-loving partner was here, she could have probably identified what it was just from its voice. 
I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be crazy if that was actually a dove?"
Returning inside, I looked up what a dove looks like. It was a dove. What the fuck???

I first read the Hunger Games books in elementary school. Haymitch was my favorite. I couldn't pick up on the historical or political undertones at the time, but even without that knowledge, the books were still massively enjoyable and inspiring to me. 

As an adult, these books make my heart ache even more. You really don't realize how young the characters are until you are past that age yourself. You can't mirror the extreme emotions the characters go through about their loved ones until you experience what love really means to yourself.  
 
Oh man, I knew I was in for a trip as soon as I recognized Lenore's name as an allusion to The Raven. Well, I knew that this book was going to be crazy way before since it's about Haymitch's life. Going in, you already know that he gets a good ending, but he has suffered through so much, like Katniss. Jeez, how he's suffered.

It was a delight(?) to see the return of Mags, Wiress and Beetee. It was a despair to learn about the existence of Ampert, the close proximity of Burdock and Asterid. I didn't even know (or remember that) they had names.


I'm not sure if I can even begin to express all my thoughts here. I have far too many. It's great. Read the damn book.

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I haven’t cried because of a book since I read Mockingjay and sobbed for the last quarter of it (or so). The exact same thing is happening again.
Absolutely sobbing as I quietly sang all the lyrics of Lenore’s song.

I feel physically ill. My head hurts. It’s past 2 AM. I’m staring at my copy of The Hunger Games and debating with myself if I should restart the whole series (I guess I’m a masochist). 
I’m never gonna be able to look at a raven or a goose ever again.
Suzanne, you mad genius.

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This book gave me many actual stomach aches. No book has ever done that before. But wow, it’s all just genius and incredible and to all the people who say this was fan service— you hate fun.

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“Happy Birthday, Haymitch!”

My heart has been shattered and I don’t know if I’ll ever recover from this book.

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Obsessed but I feel like thats not fair because I've always loved haymitch. This novel is so well spliced that their really aren't many plot irregularities. The characters are amazing and deep and it hurts to lose them even though you know it's inevitable.  The narrative voice is excellent feeling similar to Katniss, which is reasonable as their are similar people in canon, but also very distinct. Even from a random clip it is clear who is speaking. I do caution to not give into the hype about 'how 😭 😭 😭 ' the book is as while painful one walks in knowing that all of these people are dead and if it's not stated in previous books completely then the flags are large enough to see from space. The only thing truly holding this book back is that I want more, more to flesh out everything. I'd also preferred
if dove's death was something else because Haymitch's move with the candies was just stupid


Warning: I wouldn't recommend reading unless you have read the rest of the series. Also this book is dark even more so than the main trilogy 

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