Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins

17 reviews

raichou'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Endlich bin ich dazu gekommen, den zweiten Teil zu lesen und er hat nicht enttäuscht. 
Ich bin froh, dass ich die Filme früher nicht angeschaut habe, so ist mir fast die ganze Geschichte neu und ich kann sie für mich erleben. 

Ich bin gespannt wie es in Band 3 weiter geht!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Body horror

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.

viacrow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

katniss is actually so funny bc one minute she’s convincing herself she doesn’t love peeta and the next she’s talking about how much she loves his eyelashes like GIRL???? how repressed are you 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, War, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, and Classism

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Physical abuse, Medical content, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Kidnapping, Violence, Vomit, War, Murder, Blood, Death, Gore, Confinement, and Mental illness

Moderate: Misogyny, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Body shaming, Dementia, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Drug use, Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Gun violence, Sexism, Animal death, Classism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Ableism, Cursing, Sexual assault, and Animal cruelty

octagon's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Body horror, and Torture

Moderate: Drug abuse and Alcoholism

Minor: Pregnancy

redphonebooth3's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

This sequel! SO. GOOD. I still cannot believe I have never read this trilogy before. The pacing is amazing. Reads like a train we say in Dutch and we'll it really does. Like on of those high-speed ones that just don't stop because it's hard to put these books down. 
Though I will say, I'm fully convinced Katniss is on the ace-aro spectrum.
Like first of all, she's been faking the whole thing with Peeta and feels barely anything about it except for it being a great strategy. They have a few real moments, but nothing that really stands out to me as romantic. Secondly, I feel like she wants us to think she's torn between Gale and Peeta. But we, the reader, don't really know Gale and her time with him. It's making it hard to see anything romantic between them. Whereas with Peeta we do see them together so much, yet Katniss is only thinking of how to use him to her advantage. 
Anyways just my thoughts on that.
I love these books and I'm so excited to read the final one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, and Body horror

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I loved the first book in this series and was eager to carry on with this. I wanted to read this book because I love the rest of the 2012 – 2016 dystopian books including Divergent, Twilight, The Maze Runner and the Mortal Instruments. I wish I had read these during the hype of my childhood but I thoroughly enjoyed this book as a young adult.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all she has returned to her family and her best friend Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at arm length and Peeta has turned his back on her completely. Also there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol – a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fuelled an unrest she’s afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol’s cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can’t prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. This book is a young adult dystopia fiction.

I enjoyed this storyline and it was so action-packed but also romance and you didn’t know where it was going. I would have LOVED multiple POVs especially with the ending chapters because then we would have known what the inside plan was, but I also liked the big reveal and Katniss’s shock and thoughts. Again, I love Katniss – she is in the group of kick-ass women who I want to be and how strong I want to be.

The book left you with enough drama that it didn’t feel rushed but also left you wanting more that it keeps you hook to read the next book. I don’t believe they isn’t any weakness to this book I just don’t think it’s going to be the best of the series and it took me a while to get into. I would recommend this to anyone who likes kick-ass girls, fantasy novel and dystopian novels. I cannot wait to read the next book of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/injury detail, Blood, and Death

Moderate: War

k_galloway's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Body horror, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Violence

random19379's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/injury detail, Confinement, and Body horror

logsbooklog's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

as a kid, i thought this was the best of the trilogy, and i still think i’m right. the exploration of katniss’ trauma is fully realized and the beginning of the uprisings feels realistic to the established universe. there are SOME contrivances, but they keep the story moving at a brisk pace, so they can mostly be disregarded.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Mental illness, Injury/injury detail, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts