Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

123 reviews

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Murder, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Torture, Confinement, Child abuse, Addiction, Death of parent, Alcohol, Classism, and Medical content

Minor: Mental illness and Cannibalism

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 death, Classism, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Murder, Genocide, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Police brutality, Torture, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Slavery, War, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, and Medical content

samflowerv6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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 HUNGER GAMES!! Peeta is so boyfriend and I just want to protect everlark with my heart and soul!!! Okay so there’s a lot of debate on when Katniss fell in love with Peeta online <spolier> but she IS in love with him when she “fakes it” in the interview saying when he didn’t have to be a threat she could be honest about how she felt. Her inner thoughts make it so obvious how much she cares for him, like deep deep love. Just my opinion. Also my heart hurts at the end because he thinks she faked it all and I just AHHH

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcoholism, Torture, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Vomit, Classism, Physical abuse, Grief, Animal death, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, and Body horror

Minor: Cannibalism and Death of parent

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Child death, Alcoholism, Murder, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, War, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Vomit, Death of parent, Animal death, Physical abuse, Body horror, and Police brutality

Minor: Medical content, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

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

Moderate: Cannibalism and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

cassiereadsbooks_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-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

Graphic: Grief, Torture, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, and Murder

elizherlihy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Classism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Medical content

Minor: Child abuse, War, and Vomit

raisinreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Suzanne Collins very much does not utilize the "show, don't tell" technique, which is something that can really put me off when it comes to writing. Yet, despite this, the heart of her characters and her story are so strong that her writing style did little to keep me from loving the book. 

The Hunger Games does not pull punches when it comes to political and social allegory on the US. It is brutal, damning, and so tragically accurate.

 I love the emphasis on how community and kindness bring us strength, how systems of power aim to pit people against one another, how if you constantly keep people down they will not have the time or health to fight back. There is an assessment of privilege, of the commodification of tragedy, of hypersurveillance, of how all of these systems hurt and change children. Trauma runs deep throughout the entirety of the text.

And there is such love in the characters, in how they maintain their humanity, in how they take care of each other. It is love, connection, humanity that make us human and that is almost constantly emphasized.

The metaphors and allegories and characters within the text could be analyzed in multi-hundred page essay, but I will just end by saying I believe this is one of the most well-done dystopian novels in recent years and it continues to stick with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Classism, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Addiction, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

jadeilona_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Classism, Grief, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death of parent and Animal death

vanyas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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: Self harm, Police brutality, Suicide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Classism, Death, War, Blood, Death of parent, Confinement, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Murder, and Violence