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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

253 reviews

cheeruppirate's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

peachmoni'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: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, War, Classism

agw622's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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: Yes

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This book made me cry

Honestly nostalgia aside this book hits hard if you let it. It forces you to see the charecters as complex, broken, and flawed. You truly get to see how special the OG trilogy was to get the results it did. 
It also hits hard in the context of everything going on and honestly makes me feel guilty of how little I'm doing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Vomit

226's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail

ravensis's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Police brutality, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

dunndiggity's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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: Complicated

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This one WRECKED me. I had to hold off on finishing the audiobook until I wasn’t driving because I started sobbing in traffic for Haymitch and all he lost. Of the original trilogy as well as Songbirds and Snakes, Sunrise On Reaping is has left me feeling the most melancholy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

livvmarks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book made me feel like I was in third grade reading the first one all over again <3

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

kds247's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark sad tense 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: Complicated

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I hate to say it but I don’t think we needed this book. It was good and I liked the attention Collins gave to the government’s manipulation of media, but overall I don’t think it added anything new. It also felt like a sitcom where an applause track starts when you see a character or actor you recognize in that it began to feel stale. I liked it in a “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” sort of way, but I wish we got to see Haymitch as a more unique character without comparing and sharing character arcs and traits with both Katniss and Snow. I liked the comparisons but at times it felt too much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

ratigan's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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: Yes

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Abandonment

Minor: Rape

Oh boy

sbdutson's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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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It was fun to go back to the world of hunger games and to get a glimpse into Haymitch’s back story. Tragic and beautiful. In the end, he finally helped put a stop to the reaping getting another sunrise. It’s cool to know what drove him. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Classism