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lei07's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Emotional abuse, Blood, Addiction, Death, Alcoholism, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Gore
domocampo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
Graphic: Violence, Blood, War, and Death
Moderate: Torture and Grief
Minor: Addiction
fkshg8465's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, War, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Blood, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, and Grief
redefiningrachel's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Murder, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Torture, Confinement, Child abuse, Addiction, Death of parent, Alcohol, Classism, and Medical content
Minor: Mental illness and Cannibalism
meganpinkerton's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Classism, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, War, Alcoholism, Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Slavery, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Cannibalism
Minor: Vomit
e_emmaa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Murder, Child death, Alcoholism, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence
Moderate: Gore, Death, Suicide attempt, Animal death, and Death of parent
Minor: Addiction, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Suicide, Alcohol, War, Alcoholism, and Animal death
mermaidsherbet's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Classism, Death, and Child abuse
Moderate: Murder, Genocide, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Police brutality, Torture, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Slavery, War, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, and Medical content
voldycat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Death, Child death, Murder, Genocide, Blood, Violence, and Addiction
Moderate: Torture, Gore, War, Police brutality, Grief, Drug use, and Death of parent
Minor: Medical content
marxnapxrez's review
- 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
5.0
I don't remember why my twelve yearld old self decided not to read this book but my god... How good they are.
I loved the movies and I thought nows the time and I enjoyed every second of it
It's good, entertaining, keeps you on the edge but at the same time is light-paced, hurtful, and everybody knows I love a good unreliable narrator.
Can't wait to see more and more of them
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Genocide, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Medical content, Murder, Torture, Violence, and Grief
Minor: Cannibalism
raisinreads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.25
The Hunger Games does not pull punches when it comes to political and social allegory on the US. It is brutal, damning, and so tragically accurate.
I love the emphasis on how community and kindness bring us strength, how systems of power aim to pit people against one another, how if you constantly keep people down they will not have the time or health to fight back. There is an assessment of privilege, of the commodification of tragedy, of hypersurveillance, of how all of these systems hurt and change children. Trauma runs deep throughout the entirety of the text.
And there is such love in the characters, in how they maintain their humanity, in how they take care of each other. It is love, connection, humanity that make us human and that is almost constantly emphasized.
The metaphors and allegories and characters within the text could be analyzed in multi-hundred page essay, but I will just end by saying I believe this is one of the most well-done dystopian novels in recent years and it continues to stick with me.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Classism, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Addiction, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts