Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

It’s hard to say how much is nostalgia speaking – I was a fan of the original Hunger Games trilogy as a teenager – but I thoroughly enjoyed reading Sunrise on the Reaping. Haymitch is an interesting character to explore more deeply, and I liked Maysilee a lot. The underlying questions about why we submit to power and whether resistance is worthwhile got me thinking, too.

It was fun that Collins was able to work so many characters from the original trilogy into the story. It’s obvious that she was pulling in as many as she could, but they didn’t feel out of place. It made me remember interesting bits of the original books and now I sort of want to read them again.