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title: Sunrise on the Reapingauthor: Suzanne Collins
series: The Hunger Games #.5
published: 3.18.2025
publisher: Scholastic Press
Source: bought
genre(s): dystopian
pages: 419
format: eBook
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rating:
| series rating: the blurb
Wenn du dazu bestimmt bist, alles zu verlieren, was du liebst, wofür lohnt es sich dann noch, zu kämpfen?
Als der Tag der fünfzigsten Hungerspiele anbricht, erfasst Angst die Distrikte von Panem. In diesem Jahr werden zu Ehren des Jubel-Jubiläums doppelt so viele Tribute aus ihrem Zuhause gerissen.In Distrikt 12 versucht Haymitch Abernathy, nicht allzu sehr über seine Chancen nachzudenken. Alles, was ihn interessiert, ist, den Tag zu überstehen und bei dem Mädchen zu sein, das er liebt.Als Haymitchs Name aufgerufen wird, spürt er, wie all seine Träume zerbrechen. Er wird von seiner Familie und seiner großen Liebe getrennt und zusammen mit den drei anderen Tributen aus Distrikt 12 zum Kapitol gebracht: einer Freundin, die fast wie eine Schwester für ihn ist, einem besessenen Quotenmacher und dem arrogantesten Mädchen der Stadt. Als die Spiele beginnen, wird Haymitch klar, dass er nur verlieren kann. Aber etwas in ihm will kämpfen... und diesen Kampf weit über die tödliche Arena hinaus klingen lassen.
a few notes
❗trigger warnings: ❗
- graphic:
- moderate:
- minor:
POV: 1st person
setting: Panem (district 112, Capitol)
keywords/phrases: rebellion, oppression, grief
tropes: totalitarian government, strict social castes, struggle to survive
spice: 0/5
language: 0/5
awards:
- Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fantasy & Sci-Fi (2024)
- Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2024)
- Dragon Award for Best Young Adult/Middle Grade Novel (2024)
- She Reads Best of Award for Young Adult (2024)*
- Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award Nominee (2024)
my review
This book was exactly what I needed for this series. Although it is Haymitch’s story, it feels in all the gaps for so many of the characters we met in the original trilogy. I think rereading the trilogy will be a very different experience now that I’ve read the origin stories for the Games. The story isn’t just about Haymitch’s survival of the Games. It’s truly about what surviving takes from you, takes from your soul. It’s about the pieces that are torn away, never able to be repaired.
With this story comes understanding of the Haymitch of Katniss’ era; he’s so much more than a drunken mentor, a broken man. He’s compassionate and kind. He’s intelligent, so much that he was able to outsmart the Gamemakers. But he pays a hefty price for that, one levied by President Snow.
Truly, this book is incredible, immersing the reader into it until they feel every last moment, every cruel twist. This is a book that will linger.
About Suzanne Collins
Since 1991, Suzanne Collins has been busy writing for children’s television. She has worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains it All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. For preschool viewers, she penned multiple stories for the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. She also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! Most recently she was the Head Writer for Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days.
While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O! she met children’s author James Proimos, who talked her into giving children’s books a try.
Thinking one day about Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must seem to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings. In New York City, you’re much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you’re not going to find a tea party. What you might find…? Well, that’s the story of Gregor the Overlander, the first book in her five-part series, The Underland Chronicles. Suzanne also has a rhyming picture book illustrated by Mike Lester entitled When Charlie McButton Lost Power.
She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and a pair of feral kittens they adopted from their backyard.
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Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2026 52 Books Reading Challenge
- 2026 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
- 2026 Barnes & Noble Reading Challenge
- 2026 Linz the Bookworm & Logophile Reading Challenge
- 2026 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge
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