Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

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

660 reviews

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

kristanjenkins's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

mariaelvestuen's review against another edition

4.5

emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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What do I even say… this was ONE hell of a book. Wow, how gut wrenching it was to read Haymitch’s story. That boy going through all of that, absolutely unbelievable. I think it was really interesting how we god to learn so much more about the propaganda aspect in the capital. CANT WAIT FOR THE MOVIE!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury

cheeruppirate's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

blissofalife's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I really enjoyed reading this, I enjoyed the insight into Hamish’s games and the emphasis on propaganda and how his experiences shaped the character we knew in the original trilogy. 

I thought it was really interesting how the little bit we knew of his games from the original series

was a  heavily edited version created by the capital to be taken out of its original context, essentially rewriting history.

  Very interesting masterful writing. 

 I don’t think I could ever recommend this as an actual literal prequel though, it definitely needs to be read in the order it was written. But phenomenal writing, highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Self harm, Torture

Series typical violence. If you have read the rest of the series nothing here will shock you.

deathmetalheron's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Torture, Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent, War

kirbaee's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide

libscote's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I've been skeptical of the Hunger Games prequels. I wasn't sure if they were a cash grab or not. I'm still not sure about the Snow one, but I feel like this one was worth it. Explaining how Haymitch got to be the way he is was worth reading to me. I do think the glimpses of Snow's book we see in this one is fine. It made me want to reread the whole series so I could see how things intertwined. 

The onlyt thing I struggled with is that I feel like Haymitch was against Katniss choosing Mags, Beetee and Wiress as allies in Catching Fire, but they were important parts of his time in this book. I feel like Mags at least he would have been supportive of.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence

Moderate: Death, Death of parent

hooraeitsmeme's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, War

peachmoni's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, War, Classism