Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

23 reviews

katenovah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, War, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, Kidnapping, Death, Police brutality, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Genocide, Pregnancy, Medical content, Drug abuse, Torture, Violence, and Blood

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.0

The only painful thing about this book was how much Katnis can’t figure out her feelings. Otherwise this was a great follow up to book one and doesn’t suffer much from the “middle book syndrome” most 2nd books in a trilogy do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Addiction

Minor: Pregnancy and Adult/minor relationship

emilywemily6's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

How is it possible that I enjoyed this book even more than the first one? Katniss’ world is in flux and it felt like there was a constant stream of twists and turns. This book definitely sets up the third book, but it didn’t feel like a middle book in a trilogy. It has much less fighting/hunger games than the first book but a lot of uncertainty and character development in the face of the Panem’s changes. My heart aches for Peeta…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child death, Murder, Mental illness, Police brutality, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Kidnapping, Addiction, Death of parent, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

tayler32's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

Absolute perfection!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Animal death, Kidnapping, Gore, Grief, Death, Blood, Child death, and Torture

toy_masterpiece's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

 ⭐🎧Audiobook Listener🎧⭐
 
What an interesting expansion of this world! It obviously wasn't as fast-paced as the first since we spend a lot of time on the press and media side of things

and giving background to the rebellion.

But at the end of the day, Katniss is such an interesting character to follow as she's not the calculating leader that wants to burn the system down but rather a circumstantial symbol that has inspired people. We get to watch her navigate this dichotomy since of course she has the fatal flaw that any good symbol shouldn't: she's human.

Now for the reading we're back with Carolyn McCormick who does an excellent job of reminding you that more often than not, these are children that this society is pitting against one another and forcing into to PDA. My favorite voices of hers in this book are of course Katniss and Haymich. The other guys' voices that are not all hoity toity from District 1 are a little hard to distinguish but over all, we got the emotion, we got the wit, it's all there. Excellent reading.

On to the next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Violence

coolaboutit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcohol, Police brutality, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, and Blood

Moderate: Grief, Animal death, Death of parent, Classism, and Kidnapping

aiiime'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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, Slavery, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Violence, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gore, Drug use, Torture, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Addiction

elysianbud's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

The penultimate word in YA dystopia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Addiction, Body horror, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Classism, Slavery, Alcoholism, Animal death, Police brutality, Suicide, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Torture, and Violence

akane_shio's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Blood, Alcoholism, Animal death, Addiction, War, Torture, and Police brutality

Minor: Kidnapping, Medical content, and Grief

tabbed_reads2much's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Classism, Grief, Police brutality, and Death

Moderate: Ableism, Death of parent, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Racism, Violence, Addiction, and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Trafficking, and War

Maybe don't read this if you're actively coping with ptsd