SPOILS ALERT!

General Opinion

Suzanne Collins better count her day, because I am breaking into her house and collecting my therapy bills for the emotional damage this book gave me. ​

 

Characters

This book will break your heart into thousands of pieces, reading about Haymitch's Hunger Games and understanding why he acted the way he does in the Hunger Games trilogy really hit hard. But before I get into the traumatizing part, let's get into the fun part because, cause believe it, there are fun parts. 

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Let me introduce you to Maysilee Donnor, Ms. Donner, the QUEEN, the ICON, and the MOMENT. Her fashion sense is chef kiss, and seeing her insulting the Capitol people's fashion choices was just perfection. I love her attitude towards Drusilla, the District 12 escort, Maysilee roasts her so badly, saying that Drusilla won't last long in those high heels being that old. I burst out laughing whenever Maysilee opened her mouth, the pure satisfaction of seeing her insulting the Capitol people. 

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The other fun part, seeing characters in the Hunger Games trilogy making an appearance in this book. Beete, Mag, Wiress, the Covey. The last fun part, is Snow ranting about his failed relationship with Lucy Gray to Haymitch before the game was gold, it's 40 years and my guy still hasn't moved on. 

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Now, that's all the fun parts, I knows, there's a lot :)) To the traumatizing parts, the saddest thing about this book is that you know the other tributes is going to die, but Suzanne Collins writing was just that good that you end up getting attached to them. 

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Ampert... my boy Ampert!!! Very a huge spoiler here, he's Beetle's son, my jaw dropped when I read that. Ampert's death makes every other death in the series look tame. Reading about the squirrel mutts tearing him apart, until the only thing left was a skeleton, stripped to the bone was chilling. I screamed out loud when I read that, my mind went numb, and it was so bad, that the other deaths couldn't even affect me cause Ampert death just stuck in my head. 

 

Plot

Haymitch losing everything after the game was just shattering, all because he defied the Capitol, everyone he loves gone. So Haymitch had no choice but to push everyone away, drinking his life away. 

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This book makes me hate Snow so much, I hate him way more than I hate him in the original books, like I just wanted to strangle him so hard. He takes everything from Haymitch, like everything, all because his girlfriend left him 40 years ago. 

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I like the build-up and tension in this book, the anxiety of knowing that every tribute will die, and how the Capitol just sees this as their sick entertainment. Moreover, I felt like the arena in this book reflect the Capitol, how at first glance ,everything seems so colorful, so beautiful and intoxicating, only to find out that everything is actually poisonous and is trying to harm you.

 

​Conclusion

Overall, you should definetely read Sunrise on the Reaping. It is my favorite book in the series so far, not sure if Suzanne Collins will write more book about the Hunger game. But I think this is the perfect ending to the series, and we are just proving her point if we ask for more books about kids getting traumatized. ​

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