Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

78 reviews

cleotheo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

It's a very emotional book. The emotion is not "lighthearted fun".

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

Minor: Cannibalism and War

threepigeons's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.0

Rereading this book with some friends to kick off the year - it's been a long time since I've read a book with such a loveable cast and genuinely cared about what happened to so many of the characters. Knowing what happens doesn't make any of the hard parts any easier. Worth the read, worth the reread! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

marslotus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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? No

4.75

I love the author's ability to make you so easily love and hate the characters you need to love and hate. I also think in the hands of a lesser writer, a lot of parts of this book could have been so frustrating to read, but something like the fact that I had no clue what Peeta was thinking the entire games

only to be revealed at the end

is a storyline that commonly makes me roll my eyes, but I found myself so enraptured in the mystery of it all. And when Katniss is grappling with new romantic emotions, it feels so real how there's no good answer for her (at least for now?).
I will say some parts of this book were, grammatically, weirdly phrased to me? But that's just a nitpick. I also forgot that this was one of the first popularized YA dystopia novels, so I was laughing at the novel in the beginning as it rapid-fire made up new words this society uses which I know is a silly dystopia novel trope. Luckily, beyond the first few chapters, this aspect didn't bother me to greatly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Torture and Fire/Fire injury

flamesocks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cannibalism

wahseissej's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

I inhaled this book when I was 13. Nothing else mattered. Sleep schedule was ruined. God bless. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, and Death of parent

arinheck's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

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

njthk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

First reread after many years.
This is going to be a modern classic, it it isn't already.
The only and first YA dystopia that really worked as what it wanted to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Slaps as hard as it did in middle school 🤌🏻 With adult eyes though I’m wondering if Katnis was autistic. I’m not sure the author wrote her with that intention but that was the final product and it made me love it more. A timeless classic dystopia that put the genre back on the map with its release. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cannibalism and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts