Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

1398 reviews

mhb2024's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

holljoll's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Police brutality, Medical content, War

emvosey27's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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all the propaganda stuff was eerily pertinent. the whole book really made u think abt why people submit to things and accept situations they are satisfied with and the role of propaganda and manipulation in that. loved the cameos even if they were perhaps a bit fanservicey.

loved haymitch and snow interacting esp about the covey snow when i catch you

the ending didn’t feel quite as impactful as tbosas, i thought there would be a bit more explanation of how his alcoholism developed. but i did like the

peeta and katniss mention

preferred tbosas overall i think.all that being said the events being so close to the og trilogy kind of erased a lot of the stakes bc you knew exactly who would survive and who wouldn’t but then i suppose that’s the point of the hunger games books in general bc our reading experience watching these characters that we know will die like a car crash that you can’t look away from mirrors the experience of watching the actual tributes in the games. hm. food for thought. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage, Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, Torture

hesa_is_a_kiwi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book wrecked me. you should 100% read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Grief

varaht's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

bookshelvesandbeasts's review against another edition

4.75

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

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