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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
5.0
adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Very touching and I enjoyed the young cameos of characters from other books in the series. It makes me want to go back and read them all again with the added context! Haymitch is a much more complex character than I gave him credit for. All of the character development is amazing and there are a lot of sometimes complicated inserts from old poems, but they add to the overall storytelling if you can decipher them. This takes place 40 years after the ballad of songbirds and snakes and 24 years before the OG hunger games trilogy. It’s amazingly consistent with all of the characters that came before it and after it, timeline wise, and gives great insight/fills in a lot of holes that I didn’t know were missing from the other books. It covers his reaping year and goes into the time before and after but doesn’t talk much about his experience mentoring Katniss and Peeta until the epilogue. Happy ending for him (or at least as happy as he can be). 
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