Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins

5 reviews

chronicacademia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I think Catching Fire is easily the best book in the trilogy. Not only is the character development top tier, but it also had me in tears multiple times. I know that after that ending, I am in for a world of pain when I reach my reread of Mockingjay. But do I care? No. I will love every heart-wrenching second of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Death, Violence, Alcohol, and Drug use

luminifera'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

4.5

A solid sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/injury detail, Physical abuse, Addiction, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Medical content, Police brutality, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Grief, and War

Moderate: Torture, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Gun violence, Child death, Pregnancy, Sexism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

You see a clear deterioration of Katniss' mental health in this book. There are also more details about how horrible their society is.

dani_21'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

5.0

a compelling sequel to the best dystopian novel there is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, Child abuse, Grief, Murder, Drug abuse, Gore, Eating disorder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Pregnancy and Panic attacks/disorders

I mean, it's the hunger games, it's about kids killing kids and the capitol profiting of the exploitation of the districts.

gracewiley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Alcohol, Injury/injury detail, Police brutality, and Torture

Moderate: Addiction, Murder, Slavery, Medical content, Blood, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Animal death, Child death, Death, and War

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Classism, Grief, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Drug use, and Vomit

emzilia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Getting through my first reread of the series since I read them years ago. So much I had forgotten, and just like the first novel, so so so easy to read, the pages turned themselves. 

Suzanne Collins is a master with her words, and I pray to the gods I don’t believe in that she releases a new work separate from this world of Panem. Not that I am sick of the Hunger Games, but just to be able to read more of her writing. 

One aspect that did grate on me a little was the way Katniss’ obliviousness and staunchness was conveyed. Not that these are bad flaws to give a protagonist, but that I wish it was written out more as an unreliable narration and not dramatic irony. In my opinion the reader could too easily see through Katniss’ flawed assessment of many moments. It was done SO WELL when the wire snapped and Katniss was genuinely confused about Joanna and the situation at large.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Slavery