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Sunrise on The Reaping by Suzanne Collins

65 reviews

msmichaelag's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Fire/Fire injury

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

gisreading's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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My entire heart and soul are ruined. This poor man never catches a break 🥲 Haymitch Abernathy, you will always be loved. For the sweet man you are, not the poster the capital painted. You deserved the world and nothing less.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Genocide, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Police brutality, Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Colonisation

devinjai6655's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging 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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I already knew this book was gonna be a solid 5, but Suzanne Collins really never disappoints. I've been dying for a Haymitch story and now I have it and I'm so sad and so grateful. SHE MADE THE GEESE SAD and calling Katniss Sweetheart 💔 
Im so broken and in love with this book, it's everything I could've hoped. I wish there was some more clarification on some lore that's written in there but that's basically my only gripe other than how emotional I am.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Drug use, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, War

Minor: Rape, Vomit, Cannibalism, Pregnancy

marena02's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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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I absolutely loved this book. Being able to see Haymitch not only as a tribute in the Hunger Games, but as a regular teenager who still has some innocence and hope in the world was refreshing yet also heartbreaking. All he wants to do throughout this book is help everyone around him and figure out a way to stop the suffering, but throughout the book you see him slowly lose that naivety and optimism because of Coriolanus Snow. From beginning to end there were no true happy moments in this book. Just straight up sadness and melancholy and i loved every minute of it, so i don’t know what that says about me.

The only reason i’m giving this book a 4.5 is because i feel like it doesn’t do a job showing who Lenore Dove is and why Haymitch loves her. He just constantly says he does and that she’s his main motivation behind every decision he makes in the Hunger Games. I guess i would have just liked to understand his feelings for her more or understand who she is as a character because, in my opinion, she just seems like a carbon copy of Lucy Grey. That’s not a bad thing, but i feel like this kind of characterization doesn’t do anything for her as character because i also feel like in TBOSAS Lucy Grey wasn’t really well fleshed out as a dimensional character either.

Besides that though everything about this book I absolutely loved. It did what it set out to do which is break me into a million pieces. Suzanne Collins you have done it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism