m.’s Reviews > Sunrise on the Reaping > Status Update

“tough and smart, and her hair in two braids, reminding me for all the world of Louella McCoy, my sweetheart of old. after she volunteered for the games, that nickname couldn’t help but slip out.”

“but i can’t say i have no future, because i know that every year for my birthday, i will get a new pair of tributes, on girl and one boy, to mentor to their deaths. another sunrise on the reaping.”

“i drain the bottles of sleep syrup to escape reality, only to feed her gumdrops in my dreams.”

“but when ii pull back, i taste the poison and know she is gone.”

how does it keep getting worse and worse…

“but the capitol has won. i can’t tell them apart.”

the way katniss and peeta watched the capitol’s version of haymitch’s games and had no idea it was propaganda …

“i guess snow lands on top.”
he merely smiles and says, “enjoy your homecoming.”

no…how can this book get even more devastating

“who i loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. not as a sweetheart or even a friend. a sister.”