Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
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Publisher Description
The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!
When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?
As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.
Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.
When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Prepare to dive headfirst once again into the dystopian nation of Panem for this profound prequel to the Hunger Games series. The novel takes us back to the 50th Hunger Games competition, where we meet Katniss and Peeta’s mentor, Haymitch Abernathy. He’s just a young man from District 12 when he’s pulled into the games on his 16th birthday, changing his life forever. Suzanne Collins brilliantly uses this novel’s placement in the series to explore the true impact of the tragic events that follow. After all, we already know that Haymitch will win—and that it will cost him absolutely everything. That preordained aspect of the tale fills each twist with brutally profound meaning, not to mention tension and dread. And the series’ themes of censorship and propaganda become especially strong as key events unfold that we realize were erased from Panem’s history. We were completely immersed in this grim, gorgeously rendered world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set 40 years after the events of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, this heart-wrenching novel from Collins centers a 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy and his role in the climactic 50th Hunger Games. Though readers will know him as Katniss and Peeta's ill-tempered, alcohol-dependent mentor during the 74th games, young Haymitch is a sweet-natured, responsible teen working hard to support his widowed mother and younger brother. In his free time, he attends to his sweetheart, Lenore Dove, a singer with a rebellious streak, who is one of the Covey, a group of formerly itinerant musicians. Then Haymitch is selected to compete in the second-ever Quarter Quell. His mother's parting words—"Don't let them paint their posters with your blood"—become his North Star as he balances the necessity of performing for the Games with maintaining his integrity and morality. As the Quarter Quell commences, Collins utilizes searing, precise language to vividly depict what each party—the tributes, the Capitol, and the districts at large—stands to lose and how these Games' aftermath will come to shape the events of the original trilogy. Excerpts from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"—peppered throughout Haymitch's first-person narration—heighten the story's emotional resonance. It's a brutal tale of compassion and rage, and a frank examination of propaganda and tragedy, that will satisfy longtime series fans and newcomers alike. Ages 12–up. Correction: The text of this review has been updated for clarity.
Customer Reviews
Love this!!!!
I was very moved by Haymich’s journey. He went through a lot.
I loved it!
Let me say I’m not being nice because I like Suzanne Colins, if I didn’t like it I’d say.
First off it was surprising it extended the storyline of Haymitch and his past, now this book wasn’t “needed” per se nor did it add on That much lore but it was still a fun read, and it Still added onto Haymitch, Mags, Wiress, Beetee, Plutarch and Snow’s Characters.
If you’re wanting to read this for character development I’d say it sorta lacks, it focuses on character relationships more, not that there’s 0 development it’s just less than Some of Collins’ work. It has a symbolic and bittersweet ending that I at first wasn’t exactly “happy” with it, but now I feel it was the perfect ending! Personally I think this, and catching fire are her better books in many terms, SOTR is in first person and I get that’s not everyone’s go to POV but it really worked and I enjoyed the book! I’m giving 4 stars because it’s not my favorite book in the entire world lol that prize goes to ‘The Outsiders’ by S E Hinton <3 anyways I recommend reading this Hunger Games novel if you’ve liked her previous work! Warning though there are pretty Gruesome and sad scenes so just bring a tissue or two 😉😓
A wonderful wrap up to the hunger games
Got me into reading after 7 years. So captivating, I could barely put it down.