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Amanecer en la cosecha by Suzanne Collins

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I love Suzanne Collins and she is amazing. The original trilogy is what got me back into reading in middle school and will always be so important to me.
This story is so incredibly heavy that it is exhausting to read. But it is so beautifully written and as heartbreaking as these books are, I hope she never stops writing them. They are always necessary and will always be necessary.

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Der Epilog hat mich gekillt. Omg Suzanne.
Ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass mehr Themen aufgegriffen worden wären, die in den anderen vier Büchern noch nicht vorkamen. Sonst wären es vielleicht sogar 5 Sterne gewesen. 
Oh und hab selten eine Nebenfigur so geliebt wie Maysilee. 

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wow. i felt—paradoxically—both young and old while reading this latest installation to the hunger games world. much of that is probably owed to both the ten years in between my first time picking up the series, and also to the now 60+ years we have spent in the universe between The Ballad, Sunrise, and the Trilogy. 

collins has done it once again, and this time I would even go so far as to say that it is maybe the best of the five books. though, perhaps a lot of that is owed to how familiar i already am with everything thanks to the previous four. regardless, i feel like she really hit her stride here. the narrative is so tight. there’s truly almost nothing left to clean up by the end in terms of character or story. it’s masterful how succinct she can be when delving into such an epic tale. even the characters i had never met before felt familiar and real, and i knew from very early on in the book that i was about to be devastated at the loss of any of them.

collins continues to circumvent my own assumptions of both the HG society as well as human nature. she has this uncanny ability to make even small moments feel important—make even small characters feel haunting. my favorite example of this was
when haymitch, wellie, and silka share a moment of pure grief and misery together, though separate. she somehow brought three characters who have spent very little time together into the same space, just to shatter my heart with their brief camaraderie.
Oddly enough, this is the second hardest that i cried while reading this book. it caught me so utterly off guard in that special way that collins has, and it truly will be unforgettable to me. i loved it, and im looking forward to the movie despite how the book broke my heart.

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heart? shattered 

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Highly rated partly for nostalgia and partly because Collins knows how to write a prequel that pulls in existing content to tie everything sensically together while also weaving new characters and events that more fully flesh out the original characters' backstories. From the original trilogy, I knew certain events had to transpire in this book, but how she constructed it all still left me gasping and shouting. Haymitch now is more easily understood and his hand in Katniss's story more gratifying. I have my own theories about connections between the timelines of the 5 books, and perhaps some areas are meant to be left for speculation with us as well as with the people of Panem. District 12's ideas about the government during the 74th hunger games clearly evolved from the 2nd Quarter Quell, though. "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

The audiobook has fantastic narration. Maybe it's the Tolkien lover in me, but the songs could've been sung by others, if not the narrator, instead of only spoken. Even still, the classic work interspersed towards the end is inspired and done so rhythmically and beautifully. She carefully chose quotes and classic pieces to bookend this chronicle, and I applaud the selections. 

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Suzanne Collins you have ruined me

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