Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

1383 reviews

madreadings's review against another edition

5.0

dark reflective 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: Yes

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“‘Forty-nine kids died for it, but you gave it the old Heavensbee spin and, in that propo, you’re some kind of hero.’

Plutarch takes a moment to answer.  ‘I’m nobody’s idea of a hero, Haymitch.  But at least I’m still in the game.’”

i think what i loved best about sotr is showing us that plutarch isn’t the good guy.  in the original trilogy you would think he’s good, but he was just waiting for his time to pounce.  no one in the capitol except for cinna and portia give us an idea that they truly disagree with the games.  plutarch always saw it as a means of getting what he wants: he wants power, to control behind the scenes.  he wants to be the wizard of oz, paying no attention to the man behind the curtain as long as you believe what he wants.

he didn’t care about stopping that sun from rising, he wanted the power of helping it stop.  he didn’t care how many kids died.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

foreverxalways's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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omg 😭 This book was so good! I legit stayed up until 5:30am to finish it. I just couldn’t put it down despite repeatedly telling myself “just one more chapter.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, Torture, Medical content

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol

izzzybella's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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God, fine, okay, Suzanne Collins did it again. I do think unfortunately the setting and concept is so good for a YA novel that she could write every single Hunger Games from #1 to Katniss' and they would all be fun. It pulls you through exactly the same way the first Hunger Games novel did. Unfortunately the ending is pre-determined and so fucking sad, so you get to the end feeling like you expect a semi-triumphant ending somewhat like the Hunger Games and it's actually just sad. So that's probably the biggest downer. However it is kind of unavoidable in the premise of the book so. You win some, you lose some, at least Suzanne Collins isn't funding a transphobic empire with her ill-gotten gains.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

bibiabs__'s review against another edition

4.75

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

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what the fuck suzanne

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

m_liz's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

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This was as heartbreaking as I was expecting it to be. It was honestly a tough read, and it made me ache all the more for everyone experiencing the horrors of the world right now. It made me ache, but it also enraged me, because the Capitol doesn’t feel like such a far-flung fiction these days. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Grief

a_sleepy_berry's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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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Absolutely heartbreaking and devastating. Poor Haymitch deserved so much better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

noahisblue's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Collins has done it again, this was a great addition to the hunger games series. Hilariously heavy handed in foreshadowing haymitch's drinking problem. His life is much more tragic than I'd imagined and makes his fall from a relatively upbeat kid to a jaded cynic that much sadder

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

august_rhea's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Classism

Minor: Self harm, Torture, Pregnancy, War

hstcrow's review against another edition

3.75

dark sad tense

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God that was so brutal. Probably the saddest of all the books. Really had the same tone and energy of the first two books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Gun violence, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Medical content

jesssenpai's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Made me cry twice, and had great poetry (as always with Suzanne Collins).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Classism