Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Los Juegos del Hambre by Suzanne Collins

50 reviews

filipa_maia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is the third time that I read this book. The first two times were when it was released and now, ten(-ish) years later. I felt exactly the same and that was my favorite part about rereading this story.

Katniss is an amazing main character: a very strong female role model, selfless, sensitive... even her naiveness is very relatable. She was forced to grow fast and had a very hard life - losing her father and with a mother destroyed by grief she was the only one who could provide for her sister and from that point on Prim is the only reason why she wants to live.

I love this book because shows that love can be the force that changes lives, even in the most complete chaos and brutality the ones we love can make a difference between giving up and fight a little longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs and Abandonment

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Sexism, Vomit, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

raeerdna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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

this book keeps you hooked from start to finish. 
can't help to compare it a little bit with the world we live in today, where the discrepancy between poor and rich is so ruthlessly real and then compare the different districts with various countries or even continents altogether... 
I love that it makes you think and compare with our day to day life even tho it happens in a postapocalyptic world.
also has the perfect amount of everything: love, drama, suspense and so on. 
it's a shame I didn't read it sooner becaus it was also quite easily to identify with the main characters as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Blood, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Eating disorder, Grief, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

haorey's review against another edition

J'ai trouvé le livre décevant tant au niveau narration que ce qu'il se passe. J'ai essayé de le lire, sans succès... :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Confinement

random19379's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Classism

rosenau's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Cannibalism

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, and Classism

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

• 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

 This book taught me never to judge a book by its cover (literally). I first read The Hunger Games for the mother-daughter book club I was in when I was in middle school (2011 or 2012). This was before the series became popular, and I came home one day to find this book on my bedside table. My initial reaction was that it didn't look very interesting, but since it was for book club, I had to read it. As soon as I picked it up, I was hooked. I flew through it, then badgered all my book club friends about it until they read it too. To this day, it is one of my favorite books, and I was so excited when my youngest sister fell in love with the series too (at about the same age that I first read them!). I love how simple but impactful the writing is, and the characters some of my favorites in all literature. I've read and reread the trilogy, and this is probably one of the books I know best in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Physical abuse, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

marisbockshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide attempt