The Starvation Video games is among the hottest dystopian YA sequence. It’s bought 100 million copies worldwide, been tailored into motion pictures starring family names, and even influenced publishing total.
And it looks like the sequence has extra within the tank.
We’ve already written concerning the enormous launch, and the way it bought greater than 1.5 million English copies in its first week, and since we’re in common dialog with knowledge analysts over at Libby, we thought so as to add a few of their knowledge to the dialog.
The Libby analysts in contrast the checkout charges of Dawn on the Reaping with that of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes—the 2020 Starvation Video games launch that got here out simply earlier than Dawn—and located that the sequence has solely grown in reputation.
In comparison with the checkout numbers for the primary month after the discharge of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, checkout numbers for Dawn on The Reaping elevated by 515%.
In the meantime, the opposite books within the sequence—The Starvation Video games, Mockingjay, and Catching Hearth—have skilled wherever from a 120% to a 166% year-over-year checkout enhance.
It’s wonderful {that a} sequence that was first launched 17 years in the past nonetheless has such a large enchantment. Although, given its dystopian premise, possibly this isn’t so shocking.
As Collins herself has mentioned, “With Sunrise on the Reaping, I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.’ The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.”
