dunndiggity 's review for:

Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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