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Sunrise on the Reaping
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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.
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.
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4.5
“I absolutely loved this book. It was so heartbreaking and I can’t wait to see it.”
“it's a good book.
i just wish it had more wordbuilding to its name, instead of replaying every character trait, every situation, even the arena, for no other purpose than 'for old time's sake'.
some of the characters are painfully one-dimensional (read: wyatt and his odds), there's a lot of buildup for no satisfying outcome, and there are very few characters (that aren't the tributes) who have not already been introduced in the previous books, several times over. it's like i was just reading catching fire again, with all the previous victors. their first meetings felt more like reunions, and not just from the reader's perspective. the book is very aware of itself, sometimes in old, tiring ways. everyone retains the same personality; no one changes even the slightest for the next twenty five years (except haymitch, of course).
this is a 400-page book, but the entire telling of the hunger games and haymitch's experience of it lasts about a 100 pages, which is WILD to me. to think that the buildup should occupy so much more space than the actual thing is insane.
another thing that got to me was haymitch's relentless inner world, the way we'd have his painstaking reaction to even the slightest, most obvious things, for paragraphs. that's what takes up most of the space. this book does not leave much to the imagination, at ALL.
that is not to say it was bland or boring in any way. the way it tackled loss and grief was generously moving. it was an interesting experience, as always, to read a book where you already know exactly how the characters end up, exactly what the future holds. the only captivation is how this future reveals itself to these characters.
all in all, enjoyable, but I expected a lot more from that page in catching fire when haymitch recounts his own hunger games, which seemed to my younger self as a vastly interesting premise, containing much more than what this book gave me.”
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