Seize your bow and arrow, it’s time to move again to Panem.
Suzanne Collins introduced the discharge of a brand new Starvation Video games novel, titled Dawn on the Reaping, which is able to land in bookstores on March 18, 2025.
“With Dawn on the Reaping, I used to be impressed by [Scottish Enlightenment professor] David Hume’s thought of implicit submission and, in his phrases, ‘the easiness with which the various are ruled by the few,’” Collins, 61, advised the Related Press on Thursday, June 6. “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 daily.”
Collins’ upcoming ebook will mark the fifth chapter in her blockbuster sequence, set 24 years earlier than the unique Starvation Video games passed off. The unique trilogy — which follows a bunch of teenagers pressured to battle for his or her lives in a dystopian world — appeared to have come to an finish again in 2015, when the writer introduced that she was able to say goodbye to her characters.
“Having spent the final decade in Panem, it’s time to maneuver on to different lands,” Collins wrote in an open letter. “…To all of the readers and viewers who’ve accompanied Katniss on her journey, thanks for enjoying a job in The Starvation Video games, you’re really an important a part of the expertise.”
Honor Gillies as Barb Azure, Konstantin Taffet as Clerk Carmine and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Grey Baird in ‘The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.’ Murray Shut/Lionsgate
Collins’ retirement from the beloved sequence didn’t final lengthy. In 2019, she revealed that she was releasing a prequel, dubbed The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which might be set 64 years earlier than the unique sequence began.
“With this ebook, I needed to discover the state of nature, who we’re, and what we understand is required for our survival,” she mentioned in an announcement. “The reconstruction interval 10 years after the struggle, generally known as the Darkish Days — because the nation of Panem struggles again to its toes — offers fertile floor for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby outline their views of humanity.”
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Rachel Zegler, who starred within the 2023 movie adaptation of Songbirds and Snakes, shared her pleasure on X over seemingly manifesting this new ebook, retweeting a message she wrote again in 2021, which learn, “Women don’t need boys. ladies need Suzanne Collins to launch a Haymitch Abernathy origin trilogy.”
Zegler, 23, adopted up her tweet by writing, “You’re welcome guys.”
Jennifer Lawrence starred as Katniss Everdeen within the preliminary Starvation Video games movie franchise, which featured 4 films: The Starvation Video games, Catching Hearth and Mockingjay – Half 1 and Half 2. The sequence has grossed a complete of $3.3 billion worldwide.
