Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins

8 reviews

studydniowka's review

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Bardzo dobra młodzieżowa (i nie tylko) dystopia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Grief, Medical trauma, Torture, Toxic relationship, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Sexism, Slavery, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Murder, War, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, and Violence

cdoubet's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Child death, Confinement, Hate crime, Injury/injury detail, Misogyny, Police brutality, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Alcohol, Bullying, and Dementia

percivaljoyce's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Police brutality, War, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Torture, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Violence

ging090803's review

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I didn't think I would really like this book. I'm not a big fan of prequel but this one... Well, it was really great. I like how the hunger games were incorporated. We weren't following the tribute's POV but the mentor's POV. It was different.
Since it is during the 10th Hunger Games, I really liked how the games were not as developped as the book 1.
For Snow, I liked how his development was complicated yet really simple. 

Spoiler

He was always hungry for ambition and power. He was just distracted for a little while by love but, at the end, he did return to his beloved ambition

Spoiler

 Little rebelous but not enough to not become the futur President Snow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Blood, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide attempt

Minor: Torture and Cannibalism

haley_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I really liked the first half of this book, but I felt it dragged on after the games until the last few chapters which held so many plot twists I didn’t see coming at all. I can’t wait to see how the movie turns out!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, War, Vomit, Injury/injury detail, Grief, Drug use, Death of parent, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Classism, Chronic illness, Child death, Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Torture, Gore, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder

amida's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Violence, and Murder

abbeebeta's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I know not every book needs a happy ending. I know I went into this already aware of who Snow would become. But the final chapter still hurt my heart. I would gladly read a book about every single Game, or any more books in the universe. Even from Snow's perspective

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging dark informative 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Xenophobia, Addiction, and Cannibalism