In early June of 2024, Suzanne Collins announced she is writing another book to add to The Hunger Games series. The book is titled Sunrise on the Reaping and is going to be published March 25th, 2025. There is also going to be a movie releasing November 20th, 2026.
The book is going to be about the second quarter quell, which means it’s going to be a book about Haymitch Abernathy. We have learned a little about Haymitch’s experience in the previous books, and have never gone this much in depth about how the games affected him.
Last year we got the movie for Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes, and three years before that we got the book for it. This book served as a prequel to the Hunger Game trilogy. It covers President Snow’s life before he was president, and what led him to be so evil.
Something that fans already know about Haymitch is he was a part of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the second quarter quell. A quarter quell takes place every 25 Hunger Games and has a special variation on the game. For example in the third quarter quell, the variation was that tributes were selected from the pool of previous winners.
In Haymitch’s games, there were double the tributes, so there were 48 kids in total. The chances for him to survive were unlikely. However he took advantage of the arena, and used it to kill the last tribute in the game.
Haymitch defied the Capitol which is not something people normally do, and is very risky. Due to his actions in the games, President Snow executed his family leaving him as the only winner and member of his family in District 12.
Haymitch then became the only mentor for the tributes of District 12, and watched his tributes die over and over again. He slowly started losing his mind and losing hope for the kids, and turned to drinking as the only escape. But then came Peeta and Katniss who changed his life forever.
As fans are preparing for the book they have been waiting for, while filmmakers are preparing for the new addition to the series and are looking for a new cast. The tension is rising as fans are waiting to see how the new book will unfold.
