“Sunrise on the Reaping” is another prequel to The Hunger Games series. In this book, we follow Haymitch Abernathy as he’s thrusted into the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the second Quarter Quell, which held double the number of contestants. (In the original trilogy, Haymitch is the District 12 grumpy alcoholic mentor of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark during the 75th Hunger Games.) Now, we get a glance at Haymitch’s tragic backstory – ripped away from his loved one, tasked to both fight and survive while protecting contestants from his District, and destined to fail in the Capitol’s deadly games.