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Reviews tagging 'Torture'
Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins
1150 reviews
Graphic: Child death, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Death of parent
Minor: Vomit, Medical content
Moderate: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Police brutality, Grief
Minor: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder
Minor: Rape
Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Torture
Minor: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Minor: Rape
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Murder
Moderate: Torture
Minor: Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Gore, Vomit
Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, War
The epilogue was beautiful - sad but beautiful - very glad it was included. Otherwise it might all have been a bit much.
In several ways felt more like a sequel to Ballad than a prequel to the originals. Not a bad thing though. Loved seeing more of
The character of Lenore Dove was great.
Felt very topical, timely, with the themes of propaganda and media+government driving the narrative through editorialising.
A lovely little authorial dig against generative AI! Quite on-the-nose but no complaints there tbh
I liked the incorporation of The Raven. Made it apparent early on how things would end with
Perhaps it wouldn't have hurt to quote a bit less of the poem in the book and leave it as a thing to explore afterwards. Though it did nicely underline
Definitely a good addition to the overall saga. Although the broad strokes were already known, plenty of surprises along the way, and a very poignant portrait of Haymitch.
If I had to criticise something, it did feel a bit out of character to have
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent
Minor: Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, War