AND we’re back! Binged books 1-3 a few months ago, took a break, and now I’m buddy reading the rest of the series and couldn’t be more excited. I’m happy about this book because the ending of book 3 just felt way too perfect and I was dying to know how things would move forward with Juliette in charge. I love the dual POV, getting more time with Warner is the best and I just love these characters so much and can’t wait to finish out this series. 

I’m in pain- and I think everyone who has read The Hunger Games knows how hard a book can hit you but Sunrise on the Reaping was devastating on another level. Is it that we already knew a lot of what would happen? Knowing that no matter what he’d do, his family and love would be killed? Suzanne Collin’s wrote this book to further explore propaganda and I think reading this with a critical lens along with all of her work is something everyone needs to be doing to really reflect on our space in the world and answer the question she poses in the Q + A “How much propaganda does it take to make you think that implicit submission is what you want? Is it inevitable?” I’ll be thinking and reflecting and patiently waiting for my heart to break when we see this in a year on the big screen. 

Sabaa Tahir has done it again. Going back into the world of An Ember in the Ashes after devouring that series last year in one month filled me with so many emotions. I didn’t know I’d fall in love with so many new characters, feel so angry with betrayals, but I did know this story would obviously leave me wanting more as Sabaa’s work always does. Book 2 needs to happen NOW.