Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Revolta by Suzanne Collins

285 reviews

njthk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, War, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Trafficking and Sexual violence

hanhantap's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.75

I remember first reading Mockingjay when I was 14 and being utterly disappointed. The Hunger Games with no games, just political discourse, resistance, and trauma? How boring. Especially as a follow-up to one of the best sequels of all time. 

However, now my frontal cortex is fully developed and I have witnessed and participated in multiple resistance movements in the past 13 years — not to mention the past 60 days 🍉 — I feel like I can appreciate what Suzanne Collins was saying in and doing with this novel. When a symbol of a resistance movement (Katniss as the Mockingjay) becomes expendable or co-opted to repeat the evils of the past, there are moral obligations to rise against them. 

Imagine explaining that to a young Hannah and expect her to understand them at a deeper level than "Why did Katniss have to start a family at the end?"

Not understanding her survival, her trauma, and her hard fought ending to even remind herself to be happy in moments of great despair. For Katniss, starting a family was not a priority. Her only priority was to survive and now she had two — three counting Peeta — reasons to keep surviving even in the hardest of days. A life without choices became a life with one choice: the choice of companionship and finding the peace she never had. 

Her children, the other children of the districts, and the children of the Capitol will never experience the horrors that generations past will. The suffering of the present to provide for the future. It's a bittersweet ending that I finally understand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, War, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

mabelsyrup's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gore, Child death, and Mental illness

sashagalkina's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Child death, War, and Suicidal thoughts

bookad2_7's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Suzanne Collins's writing just gets better with every book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child death, Addiction, and Alcoholism

matidareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This wasn’t the best book in the series but a great way to end Katniss’s journey of being a rebel that fought for the freedom of her people. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Death, Alcoholism, and Blood

nodustollens's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Emotional abuse, Child death, War, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Classism, Torture, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

Minor: Toxic friendship and Miscarriage

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Alcoholism, Child death, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Drug use, Classism, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Confinement, Death of parent, War, Murder, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

drawahardline's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death, Child death, Violence, Torture, Murder, Self harm, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Mental illness, and War

bella_01's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Another highly emotional book, which lead me to tears multiple times. Once I got roughly halfway, I wanted to stop reading. I knew from that point forward the book would become  depressing. 

Suzanne Collins is a brilliant author. No character in the series is unflawed, making the experience feel even more real. I felt my heart being ripped out multiple times . For me, the fall in rating is due to sections of confusing writing within the book. For the majority of this book and the others in this series, I was able to picture what was going on. Unfortunately, I found some of the chapters in the Capitol confusing. I re-read a few to gain a better understanding, but was mostly unable to picture what Collins was trying to convey through the text. 

Overall, I enjoyed reading this book, and look forward to recommending the series to lots of people!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Suicidal thoughts