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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

Suzanne Collins

Start date: April 1, 2025

Finish date: April 30, 2025

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Mar 19, 2025 Jenny rated it it was amazing

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"Happy birthday, Haymitch!"
The upside on being born on reaping day is that you can sleep late on your birthday. It's pretty much downhill from there. A day off school hardly compensates for the terror of the name drawing.

Sunrise on the Reaping tore my heart out and shredded it to pieces.
It is everything I hoped Haymitch's story would be, and more! I finished the book two weeks ago, and I still think about it on a daily basis. I enjoyed The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, but it never manag ...more

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Mar 20, 2025 Kay rated it it was amazing

So many emotions. So well written.

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May 03, 2025 Shelli rated it it was amazing

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I'm glad this has such a high rating so I don't have to defend it. I read several reviews that were very harsh. I personally loved being back in the Hunger Games world. I appreciated all the familiar characters and situations. I've been away for 9 years and it was fun to be back. Of course we knew how it would end but it was great to have the action packed backstory. What lost me a little were the songs. I found my mind wandering with that much time spent in song. Also...it was just SO sad. I kn ...more

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Apr 05, 2025 Karon Buxton rated it it was amazing

As other reviewers have said it’s a slow start and a bit of the drag to get to the games and maybe not as quick paced as the first hunger games book but I personally loved Haymitchs story and the lead up to his alcoholic spiral , it would be enough to turn you to drink to escape wouldn’t it ? Didn’t care for the previous snow story but this for me was a winner and can’t wait to see the film , loved the old characters popping up to . More please 🙏

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Mar 21, 2025 Batya’s Bookish Babel rated it it was amazing

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Stunning. I recommend re-reading Catching Fire and going straight into Sunrise on the Reaping. Cudos to Collins for writing a book that seamlessly fits into the original trilogy, but with an erudite twist. 🐦‍⬛

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