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Sunrise on the Reaping
by Suzanne Collins
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Haymitch has always been my favourite character in the series, so when I found out that his Hunger Games were about to get their own novelization of course I had to jump at the chance to read it.
The whole thing was as tragic and brutal as the original series, even though Haymitch is always playing his own game. It wasn't exactly what I imagined, though it gives a lot of context to his very extreme punishment. All in all this entry in the series seems to mostly concern itself with censorship and how the public opinion might be changed by repression of information, even if it opposes the truth people should remember. In that sense it fits very nicely with the book I read before it and is a bit of a change from the first three books in the series which were more of a manipulation of the public in an emotional sense. I haven't read "The Ballad" though and I feel like this book would have been improved by having that context too.
A very tragic origin story and a quick read.
The whole thing was as tragic and brutal as the original series, even though Haymitch is always playing his own game. It wasn't exactly what I imagined, though it gives a lot of context to his very extreme punishment. All in all this entry in the series seems to mostly concern itself with censorship and how the public opinion might be changed by repression of information, even if it opposes the truth people should remember. In that sense it fits very nicely with the book I read before it and is a bit of a change from the first three books in the series which were more of a manipulation of the public in an emotional sense. I haven't read "The Ballad" though and I feel like this book would have been improved by having that context too.
A very tragic origin story and a quick read.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder