Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games) Hardcover – March 18, 2025
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Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games) Hardcover – March 18, 2025

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Amazing book! Collins does it again.

WARNING: Spoilers aheadKay, let's get this review started.First with the negative:Really there are none, the only thing that made me sad was the price of the ebook ($18 for an ebook??? - though it did force me to buy the hardcover which I'm very happy about lol) and the fact that the story wasn't as mindblowing as everyone says it is. This might be because I put my expectations too high after hearing everyone talk about it for a month.POSITIVE:It was - actually - a really good book. Definitely very excited to watch the movie.The easter eggs were really fun to read. I loved learning more about Brodick (I didn't even know that was his name) and Asterid. Though I still don't know how to feel about Asterid. Like she honestly failed Katniss in so many ways, I'm honestly kind of mad at her. As soon as I felt she was being a better mom, Prim dies, the war ends, and she just dumps Katniss (after she has MULTIPLE huge traumatic experiences happen) and leaves to go heal other people. Like... ma'am?? You know you have another daughter right?? At least Peeta picks up her slack but still. (How did this become a rant about The Hunger Games??)ANYways, this book didn't really help her character, except to give me more insight into her childhood, make me love her and Brodick's relationship, and make me feel even worse about Brodick's death.I ABSOLUTELY LOVED Effie. She's awesome; (ignoring the fact that she does in fact wholeheartedly supports the Hunger Games, but we don't talk about that). She's honestly so fun, and positive, and bubbly. She's also the only thing I didn't see coming in the book (maybe I should add that to the negatives).I did find this book more political than the others, which I didn't mind. I found it interesting.Loved his district team. I love the growth between all of them, especially with Maysillee. Her characer arc, or at least the understanding that grew between her and Haymitch were amazing to read. I loved the quote, about what it means to have a sister ("you fight with each other and for each other" bit).HOW could they do that to Louella though? She honestly didn't deserve that. I loved that he called her "sweetheart" though and loved the connection to I did grow fond of Lou Lou though, and honestly felt so bad for her.The end fight was kind of gory though. The part with the intestines and Silka slowly dying with an ax in her head made me feel kind of queezy. I kind of liked that feeling (not during, but after) though because it reminds me of the horrors of murder and how thankfully I haven't been dessensitzed to it. No one should be used to that feeling.Okay, now to Haymitch...MY POOR BABY! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU! *wails*His character wasn't what I expected it to be. I don't even know how to describe his character.The ending was traumatic, I am traumatized. Literally, the whole book was fine, like "cool they're killing each other, that's fine I guess", BUT THEN when he comes home and his literal family is BURNING! STOPP. I 100% didn't expect that. I thought they would have been killed beforehand or something and people would have just told him "oh sorry, your family's dead, they were hanged", BUT NO cuz Snow is so much smarter than that, so he's going to make it look like an accident and nobody will know excpect HAYMITCH. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh.OH AND THEN Lenore Dove dies AND I LITERALLY DIED. I AM DEAD. LIKE HOW CAN SNOW DO THAT TO HIM!?? LIKE NOOOOOOO. NOT LENORE!! SHE'S NOT LIKE LUCY GRAY AT ALL??!! AND THE FACT THAT HAYMITCH LITERALLY KILLS HER HIMSELF IS SO. MUCH. WORSE. *cries herself to sleep*.The ending explains Haymitch's character so well in the "next" books, why he is alone, drunk, and irritable.It also makes so much sense that he was drunk during Katniss' reaping. It's his birthday and a reminder of everything he lost.Anyways, good job to Suzanne Collins, for another amazing book.Also, thank you for the epilogue, I would have died without it 🫶🏻.I really hope they will bring in the original actors for the epilogue or something because if they just bring in a random girl with a braid, I'm going to throw hands.

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Nevermore [*Spoilers included]

Like Suzanne Collins’s most recently-published previous novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, this brand-new book, Sunrise on the Reaping, is a prequel to her blockbuster trilogy, The Hunger Games. The Ballad was set during the tenth iteration of the games, a televised, bloody, fight-to-the-death “pageant” featuring children ages 12-18 drawn from Panem’s twelve districts. The Ballad tells the story of a young student, Coriolanus Snow, his scrabbling to escape his disadvantaged situation, his becoming a mentor to the female tribute from District 12, his risks and machinations regarding her Hunger Games participation leading to his fall from grace, and his subsequent decisions, which eventually, inexorably, lead to his climb to power.This brand-new novel, Sunrise on the Reaping, opens about fortyyears after Snow’s story, Snow is now president of the nation, and Sunrise on the Reaping begins on the very morning when district tributes are selected as tributes for the second Quarter Quell, year fifty of The Hunger Games. This novel tells the story of District 12’s Haymitch Abernathy, the sodden, sullen victor of the games who readers will instantly recognize as mentor to Katness and Peeta in the first two novels of the original trilogy.This novel opens on Haymitch’s sixteenth birthday. It follows his journey from unwitting tribute to shattered victor, supplying readers with a much-awaited back story. It is, in my opinion, worth the wait. Knowing what Haymitch experiences as a young man affords readers a richer understanding of the character’s subsequent behavior, and also provides them with a pulse-pounding, suspenseful, action-packed story similar to but distinct from the other hunger games sagas.It’s also fascinating to be introduced to characters whom readers have either known in different timelines or have heard of in connection with other characters in the fictional world Collins has created. Haymitch is a contemporary of the parents of the tributes selected in the first novel, so readers meet them as adolescents. Other Hunger Games victors, such as Beattie and Mags and Wiress, figure into the story as well. This expansion —and/or contraction?—of Collins’s world-building adds another layer of brilliance to this novel.Finally, a note on poetry and music in this book: Suzanne Collins’s intensive use of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” made me do a deeper dive into the role of music, folk-lore and oral tradition in locations where conflict has disrupted or destroyed the flow of history, or the narrative of history, at least. In the novel’s Covey family, gypsy-like nomadic musicians who figure peripherally in both this and previous novels, Collins celebrates the oral tradition of folk songs and protest anthems that resonate through the world of The Hunger Games. From Katniss’s singing her dad’s songs, to Lucy Gray’s proclaiming in song that the Capital can’t take anything away of real value, to Lenore Dove’s serenading her geese in the meadow —and being detained after singing politically-charged songs before crowds in District 12, these young women use song as links to the past, to their forebearers, carrying on the knowledge and agendas of their families and clans, and thus perpetuating the historical, political value of such music, and, correspondingly, the stirrings of rebellion that simmer under the surface of Panem.In Haymitch’s story, the disorienting, hopeless position he is in as a tribute in a year when the games demand twice the number of participants begins to mirror and then coexist with the unsettling, bewildering, sing-songy, dream-like metrical structure of “The Raven.” At first the poem is familiar—if not tremendously important—to Haymitch because the girl he loves is named Lenore, the same name as that of the poem’s speaker’s lost love. He surprises Plutarch Heavensbee (another familiar name from the original trilogy) by quoting part of “The Raven” to him prior to the beginning of the 50th annual bloodbath. (The idea of drinking to forget creeps cleverly into the narrative here, foreshadowing what Haymitch will become.)As the games disorient and plunge him into their particularly nasty chaos, echoes of the poem haunt his mind. It is as if he is performing a dirge for himself in his brain. Memories of death after death make reality unbearable for Haymitch, as he awaits his after-victory fate alone in the training center, during the surreal Capital celebrations of his win, and after he returns home to ashes and tragedy. The narrative is increasingly interspersed with stanzas of the poem. When he implores his former best friend (who readers infer will become Katniss’s father in a few short years) to take him to Lenore Dove’s hidden burial plot, he finds words from “The Raven” engraved on her headstone. The disorienting struggle to keep living with himself and without Lenore Dove compound upon his losses, and all that is left for him at the novel is the echo of “nevermore.”

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