With that in mind, most negative reviews seem to have this in common:

If you want to read something very similar to The Hunger Games, this is your book. It goes reaping > dress-up > training > rating > games. The characters are different, but the plot is virtually the same.

the book reads like a hunger games #1 rewrite

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214331246-sunrise-on-the...

Although most fans seem to love it.