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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Name That Shouldn’t Be Called
Chapter 3: — Birthday, Bootleg, and a Girl Named Lenore
Chapter 4: — A Riot, a Bullet, and a Replacement
Chapter 5: — Capitol Makeovers and a Death They Won’t Admit
Chapter 6: — The Newcomers and the Trap Inside the Garden
Chapter 7: — Poisoned Paradise and the Price of Straying
Chapter 8: — Sisters in Blood, and the End of the Newcomers
Chapter 9: — The Final Posters
Chapter 10: — Nevermore
Description
Sunrise on the Reaping follows sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy in District 12 on the morning of the Fiftieth Hunger Games—Panem’s second Quarter Quell. Haymitch begins the day as a poor Seam boy juggling dangerous bootlegging work, family survival, and a fierce, forbidden love with Lenore Dove, a Covey girl whose songs and ideas flirt with rebellion. But the reaping erupts into chaos, and Haymitch is violently forced into the role of tribute after a boy’s attempted escape ends in a public execution.
Dragged to the Capitol with three other District 12 tributes—Louella, Wyatt, and the wealthy, sharp-tongued Maysilee—Haymitch is pulled into propaganda, manipulation, and a widening attempt to undermine the Games themselves. As alliances form and the arena reveals its lethal design, Haymitch confronts the true cost of defiance: not only death in the arena, but punishment that reaches back to the people he loves.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who want a high-stakes Hunger Games prequel centered on Haymitch’s origin and trauma.
- Fans of dystopian thrillers about propaganda, power, and rebellion under authoritarian rule.
- Readers who enjoy emotionally charged survival stories where love and moral choices collide with spectacle violence.