Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

180 reviews

itsme_kayy's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Death, Gore, and Child death

Minor: Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent

isaa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

Creo que disfrutaría más el libro si la traducción no estuviera tan rara. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Self harm, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Torture, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Suicide, and Sexual violence

notapenguin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, War, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Mental illness, Grief, and Torture

backofth3bar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War, Torture, Drug use, Alcoholism, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Suicide attempt

caribourou's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

So dark that it got me zoning out thinking about death way too often during class and school. People died like every 30 pages it was ridiculous but oh well.

Katniss is rather annoying but from what I know she's not supposed to be relatable or likeable. Plus like I can barely even choose between Gale and Peeta can't believe we didn't get to see the choice on the spot. I would've liked that drama-

Too many deaths, hard to process..

Spoiler

Boggs, Finnick and Prim, though i didnt care much for prim

in the last third of the book, it was getting depressing, so was the ending... but whatever..

I do not regret or enjoy reading this book but oh well

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Body horror, Torture, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Self harm, Body horror, Medical content, Vomit, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

izzysizemore's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, War, Blood, Genocide, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Death, Medical trauma, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

warlockdorian's review

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Murder, Self harm, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Blood, Child death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug use, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Mental illness, Slavery, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Gore, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and War

ladykozan's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Child death, War, Blood, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

withlivjones's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-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? No

4.5

A thrilling end to the trilogy, featuring realistic, un-sugarcoated depictions of war where the stakes are high and a lot of favourite characters are lost :( Something I’ve loved in this series is that Katniss isn’t presented as some bulletproof heroine. Sure, she is able to hold her own to some extent but Collins could have made her some overpowered prodigal Mary-Sue (which is kind of how she’s presented in propaganda as the Mockingjay) when really she’s still so young and she never comes away from battle unscathed and instead almost always survives out of sheer luck or through other people’s help (or sacrifice). I think this makes her a super realistic and compelling protagonist. I also really like how the romance wasn’t really the focus of the trilogy, there was a bit more love triangle content in this book but even then it takes a backseat to the rebellion, and as Katniss says, she “can survive just fine without either” of Peeta or Gale. 

Spoiler

I do think that the pace sped up a little too much towards the end - we spend so much time in Katniss’ head leading up to the end of the war and the execution, but I would have loved to have seen more of her thought process as she decided both to hold the symbolic Hunger Games and to kill Coin instead of Snow, since both of these decisions are really significant and they just kind of happen without much explanation. The ending itself and the epilogue is really sweet though, and I like that it took a long time for Katniss to have children and that Peeta was willing to wait for her, since Katniss was so terrified of being forced to bring children into Panem in Catching Fire. Overall, I loved this book and the entire trilogy and I can’t believe it took me so long to read it!

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Blood, Grief, Body horror, Child death, Alcohol, Gun violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and War

ak97x's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Toxic relationship, Torture, Murder, Blood, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Self harm, Abortion, and Panic attacks/disorders