Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

De ballade van slangen en zangvogels by Suzanne Collins

137 reviews

pysselfia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Body horror, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Classism, Medical trauma, Xenophobia, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Police brutality, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Addiction, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, War, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

esophagus18's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Violence, Vomit, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Drug use, Gore, War, Blood, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Confinement, Death of parent, and Alcohol

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Vomit, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Child death, Classism, Addiction, Grief, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, Violence, War, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

am4man's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, Drug use, Murder, Blood, Physical abuse, Classism, Child death, Drug abuse, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Torture

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Animal death, Child death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Police brutality, Alcohol, Confinement, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Vomit

bookswithbethx's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Grief, Murder, War, Child abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Addiction

memoirsofabooklover's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

this was a brilliant sequel. perfect length, it really gave you time to delve in to the story. suzanne did a brilliant job of putting us in snow’s mind. the way she started off making you feel sorry for him because he has real hardships and goes through many genuine emotions you find yourself kind of rooting for him and *almost* forgetting what he was to become

the complexity, yet simplicity, and eventually tragedy, of his love story with lucy gray was so well written, you weren’t sure if you could trust her and the way it spoke her ballad in to existence at the end was chilling

. the attention to detail was incredible; so many nods to, and easter eggs from the original trilogy. and not only those, but also the fact that we see the creation of the world that katniss is brought up in, and connect so many dots.

the songs origins brought from the original trilogy, as well as the other songs sung were haunting, as well as it being incredible to see their origin and true meaning behind them. the symbolism of it all was poetic. seeing snow’s mindset already being brainwashed by his society, the superiority he feels from his tile and status being further twisted and deepened to become the man who we meet in the original trilogy.

the depravity and brutality of the treatment of the districts in this earlier setting was astounding, after reading the original books you don’t imagine things be much worse in the past but it is, despite the wicked and twisted things yet to come, along with snow’s power. overall, it was a brilliantly thought-out and crafted novel, perfectly tying in to the original trilogy; whilst being its own twisted, compelling story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, Child death, Gaslighting, War, Torture, Classism, Death, Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Confinement, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Vomit, Cannibalism, Drug abuse, Sexism, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Racial slurs

allysm0llbean's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Gaslighting, Medical content, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Blood, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, War, Child death, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

lydiasturges's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I was hesitant to read this when it wasn’t Katniss/Peeta centric, but I’m glad I read it!! What a phenomenal read. Holy shit. I am amazed at Collins’ writing style and her ability to write social commentary in a subtler way. Snow’s development throughout the book is so compelling that you forget you already know who he turns out to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Police brutality, Murder, Death, Classism, Confinement, War, Violence, Child abuse, and Child death

Minor: Alcohol and Cannibalism

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Gore, Cannibalism, Confinement, Murder, Blood, Death, Animal cruelty, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, Torture, and War