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kaylaswhitmore 's review for:
Sunrise on the Reaping
by Suzanne Collins
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
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 waswhen 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.
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Rape, Pregnancy