A review by marena02
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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

4.5

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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