Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

59 reviews

sudatot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Ableism, Genocide, Terminal illness, Torture, Kidnapping, and Cannibalism

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Genocide, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Cannibalism

Minor: Cancer, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Excrement, Vomit, and Acephobia/Arophobia

weepingstones's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cannibalism

yourbookishbff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Slavery, Torture, and War

tabbed_reads2much's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• 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? Yes

4.75

Read this first at 11. I'm 24 now, and it's as good as I remember.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, Fatphobia, Genocide, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Minor: Ableism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Police brutality, Cannibalism, and War

The sheer number of content warnings. Yikes

vendy_kha's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

As about my third/fourth reread, this book never disappoints. Whoever saw just the movies doesn't know half the story... The way Katniss thinks and communicates with Haymitch, how the bonds get forged, what consequences come out of every sound of that canon and the aftermath of it all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

danimacuk's review

dark emotional 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Slavery, Violence, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

creativeworld's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I tend not to read overly popular books for fear it won't live up to my expectations but I am so glad I did. Listening to Tatiana Maslany really brought Katniss to life in a new way. It was well written and still exciting even after seeing the films many times. Highly recommend. I am definitely going to listen to the next few books in the series and may even re-read in the future (a rare occurrence for me) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Slavery, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

_lunar__'s review

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, and Pregnancy

reading_racoon69's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

So this book is REALLY GOOD LIKE WHAT. I never thought I’d read the hunger games, dystopia is not my favourite genre. But I did it and I don’t regret it.

The main character, katniss, is very annoying and cringy through almost all of Part 1. But after she goes into action mode and is really cool 

The writing is so good and it keeps you plastered to the pages like they have crack. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

Effie, dear Effie, can someone do a prequel for her? Does that exist? Is it a possibility? Im sorry but she’s so interesting!!!! I want to know more about her and weekly “fuck the capital” low key phrase 

!Attention! This book is very gory, which is cool- but could we step down on the pus ?!?!?)?! 

I know Peetas manipulation was necessary but- 😭😭😭 why do this to my baby !!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Slavery, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death