Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins

659 reviews

cleotheo's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Brutal. Loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Torture, War

brainfogbabe_92's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

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Heartbreaking. That is the only review needed because this is Heartbreaking more than anything.
Collins writes incredible works at a time when it feels the world needs it, and this iteration is nothing less than heartbreaking. Her words are sorrowful and desperate to a capital which doesn't hesitate to send children to their death.
A necessary read to any and every Hunger Games reader. We are not fans because no one should be a fan of this, but we try to take it in. This should also be read by any who hope for a better future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Alcohol

clem24's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad 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: Complicated

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Made me cry a little, which doesn’t happen often. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Rape, Torture

petrichor_rory's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, War, Classism

mahree's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny 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: Complicated

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This book was hauntingly beautiful! The songs and poems throughout the book really honed idea of resilience and resistance. It gave more insight about Haymitch. Overall this book drives home the fact to never stop fighting for a better future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

asparagusfern's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional 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: Complicated

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Suzanne Collins is still at the top of her game and this was well-written. As someone who loved the original Hunger Games trilogy, I'm honestly not sure if this book added anything new. More misery porn, a fair bit of heartbreak, and another thrilling game but neither the events nor the themes are a huge departure from the original trilogy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Torture, Medical trauma, Death of parent

cassianlamb's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Homophobia, Rape, Torture, Fire/Fire injury

Extra spoiler:

Romantic partner death

bellagali's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol

fearlesslyrachel's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Beautiful emphasis of why Haymitch is Haymitch, laid out in a typical Hunger Games fashion book. Lots of suspense to build up the short chapters of the actual hunger games and all their horrors packed into a quick Timelapse. The ending was uplifting which was nice after wanting to cry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Loved this! So sad but really helps round out the complete Hunger Games series.

richy_qu33r_readzz's review against another edition

3.75

reflective fast-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: Yes

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This book delves more into how the games became what they were in the hunger games trilogy. It also develops some of the more questionable characters and adds backstory that makes them more human or at least understandable. 

This very much reads like just another hunger games, if messier. Much like how the 80’s/90’s were compared to current standard of safety and operations. I had hoped the storyline would extend past Haymitch’s games to the building of the revolution and a pov of training tributes and general life in the capital. But it doesn’t in any detail.

I also found the plot devices and certain characters to just be remakes of other plot devices and characters in the series. Only the small details changed, which I found disappointing. The amount of songs was also overkill and repetitive for my tastes; they just don’t translate well onto the written page.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Murder

Minor: Torture