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The newest novel within the über fashionable dystopian YA collection Starvation Video games, Dawn on the Reaping, has bought greater than 1.5 million world English copies in its first week within the US, the UK, Eire, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The guide has made it to the highest of USA At the moment, New York Instances, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and UK and US impartial bookstore bestseller lists. It has even bought 1.2 million copies within the US alone.
It’s bought so many copies that it’s even outdone the collection prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which got here out in 2019, and Mockingjay, the third guide within the collection, which got here out in 2010 when the collection was nonetheless fashionable however a lot newer.
The guide follows the early story of fan-favorite Haymitch Abernathy after his title is named and he’s torn away from his household to take part within the Starvation Video games. Suzanne Collins stated, “With Dawn on the Reaping, I used to be impressed by David Hume’s thought of implicit submission and, in his phrases, ‘the easiness with which the numerous are ruled by the few.’ The story additionally lent itself to a deeper dive into the usage of propaganda and the facility of those that management the narrative. The query ‘Actual or not actual?’ appears extra urgent to me day by day.”
A movie adaptation of the guide is already within the works and shall be launched by Lionsgate on November 20, 2026.
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