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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

150 reviews

tinyfemale's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

greciamj1958's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, and Grief

lalassa's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism and Death of parent

chrisljm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

4.5

yup, still holds up 15 years later 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse

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

mik_hart's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent

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

ashtont's review

reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

pasithee's review against another edition

• 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

4.75

'The Hunger games' is one of, if not the best young adult series to be written. The Hunger Games establishes a lived-in world bustling with rich characters (both side and main) that each have unique traits that reflect where in this world they were raised. None of the characters are simple and one-note. It has been amazing to re-read this series and see how well it has withstood the test of time; while other YA series aren't as enjoyable, The Hunger Games seems to have aged like a fine wine! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Torture, Blood, and Death of parent