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e_emmaa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Suicide, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War
mermaidsherbet's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and War
voldycat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug use, Gore, Torture, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and War
Minor: Medical content
marxnapxrez's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I don't remember why my twelve yearld old self decided not to read this book but my god... How good they are.
I loved the movies and I thought nows the time and I enjoyed every second of it
It's good, entertaining, keeps you on the edge but at the same time is light-paced, hurtful, and everybody knows I love a good unreliable narrator.
Can't wait to see more and more of them
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Cannibalism
raisinreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.25
The Hunger Games does not pull punches when it comes to political and social allegory on the US. It is brutal, damning, and so tragically accurate.
I love the emphasis on how community and kindness bring us strength, how systems of power aim to pit people against one another, how if you constantly keep people down they will not have the time or health to fight back. There is an assessment of privilege, of the commodification of tragedy, of hypersurveillance, of how all of these systems hurt and change children. Trauma runs deep throughout the entirety of the text.
And there is such love in the characters, in how they maintain their humanity, in how they take care of each other. It is love, connection, humanity that make us human and that is almost constantly emphasized.
The metaphors and allegories and characters within the text could be analyzed in multi-hundred page essay, but I will just end by saying I believe this is one of the most well-done dystopian novels in recent years and it continues to stick with me.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content
lucyford's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Physical abuse, Suicide, Vomit, Police brutality, and Alcohol
marena02's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
jmorateck's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism
bookishlesbian8's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
Minor: Genocide, Mental illness, and Cannibalism
izzysizemore's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and War