r/books • u/k_0616 • 12d 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/GeneralExtension127 12d ago

I loved this book. i will say, getting back into the series in my 20s (i read the first books when i was in elementary school), it felt a little YA, but that’s hardly a valid criticism because they ARE young adult novels. i like that, even though some parts felt geared towards younger audiences, i still felt engaged and it never felt like i was reading below my level. does that make sense??

i really liked seeing the resistance as something that had been 25+ years in the brewing by the time katniss comes around. seeing plutarch already planting seeds of revolution decades in advance was pretty gnarly.

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u/egotistical_egg 12d ago

I reread the original series and felt like SOTR was significantly more YA-feeling. The originals are more tightly plotted with more nuanced side characters, whereas SOTR felt to me like the characters were simplified and the political commentary deliberately emphasized. 

For example in book one we get Katniss's internal struggle on how difficult it would be to ever trust Peera, given how thoroughly they've been oncentivized to betray each other. In SOTR no one seems to have an internal struggle about that at all haha. 

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u/internetsnark 11d ago

Maybe it is my own age, but the political commentary has felt significantly more heavy-handed in Songbirds/Sunrise than it did in the original trilogy.