NEW YORK — Savannah Miller, 26 years old and a 'Hunger Games' reader for half of her life, has only grown in admiration for Suzanne Collins' dystopian novels.

'As a kid you focus so much on the plot and the action,' says Miller, a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and among hundreds of fans at the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan's Union Square who attended the midnight launch party for 'Sunrise on the Reaping,' published Tuesday. 'As an adult I connected to the characters a lot more and had more of an emotional response. I also appreciated the writing a lot.'