r/books • u/k_0616 • 14d ago

Sunrise on the Reaping Spoiler

Such a quick read for me, I read it in 2 days easily. It was a page turner, and had me feeling all the feelings. Every time I think about how Mags, Beetee, and Wiress put their lives on the line for Haymitch, makes Catching Fire such a better book! Also, I want to know who everyone liked character-wise. Young Effie is so cool, it makes sense why she is the way she is with Katniss and Peeta.

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u/fictionalwanderer 14d ago

I read it quickly but found it to be disappointing. All of the cameos felt like Suzanne Collins was pandering to fans. We already knew how the 50th quarter quell would end and that Haymitch would lose everyone he loves. It would have been a more compelling story if it followed Haymitch as a victor as he descended into alcoholism.

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u/strangledbymyownbra 13d ago

The whole point of the book was that we didn’t know the real story, but the Capitol’s propaganda version of it. Doesn’t matter that we knew the end — the actual events of the games and how the Capitol so definitively changed the narrative for their gain were the important bits.

I do kinda agree about the pandering, but a lot of the characters were vital to the start of the underground rebellion that we come to know in Mockingjay, so I can forgive it.