Review by 2busyreading - Sunrise on the Reaping

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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

After The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (which admittedly I wasn't a huge fan of) I was hesitant about this, but my hesitation was completely unwarranted. Collins does not hold back from the obvious political message she had to make and I'm glad for it. The book is both brutal, beautiful, hopeful, and heartbreaking all at the same time. Given it's a prequel you know what will happen, but still you find yourself hoping against hope for a different outcome. Originally I had thought we didn't need a book about Haymitch's game, I mean, didn't we get told what happened and how he won in the original trilogy? But I was proven wrong, there was much more to his story and I'm so glad Collin's told it.

This book shows that a revolution does not happen overnight, and while certain plans within the book do not succeed, they do start a spark for a larger fire to burn in the future. We do not have to accept the way things are and things are worth fighting for even if we don't get the end results we hope for right away, A message I think we all need right now.

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