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ghoulsrfools's review
- 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? No
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol
the 'schizophrenia/psychosis' content warning is just for hallucinations caused by a wasplike bug's sting.chavonnwshen's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
May the odds be ever in your favor while reading these fantastic books!
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death and Abandonment
alyssapusateri's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol
Minor: Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, and Cannibalism
tieflingmom's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
glacilynn's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child abuse, Torture, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War
byrdies's review
- 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? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood
lily1304's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
4.25
Even though the Hunger Games is a huge corporate franchise under Scholastic and Lionsgate, it still retains some subversive political themes. Rebellion against authoritarianism and income inequality are obvious. But labor rights are also a major theme, for example, in Katniss' descriptions of District 12 and Rue's descriptions of District 11. Katniss' father is one of many miners who die in coal mine explosions; both coal miners in District 12 and farm workers in District 11 are forbidden from keeping the products of their labor; both farm workers and Appalacian miners were major players in labor history in the US.
There's plenty more here, too, that could become whole essays - the criminalization of poverty, art and performance as political protest, a state-planned economy dependent on violent suppresssion of dissident speech, climate change causing war, the power of a heterosexual love story to sway bystanders into sympathy for a cause, entertainment media as "bread and circuses" distraction, etc, etc. It has the potential to politicize young readers if they aren't too distracted by the love triangle and the game itself.
I found the relationship between Katniss and Peeta to be more believable than I remembered, at least in this first book of the trilogy. Pretending to be in love while enduring trauma together might make me catch feelings for some dude too.
I appreciate Katniss' movites change over the course of the novel from "literally do anything to survive, trust no one" to teaming up with Peeta to win with at least some kind of dignity and integrity. Overall I think she's a more interesting protagonist than many other YA novels.
It's been so long since I've read the sequels, but now I'm curious if they hold up as well as the first one... my suspicion is that they don't. I remember being just as disappointed by Mockingjay as I was Gregor and the Code of Claw waaaay back in the day. Maybe I should re-read those too!
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Mental illness and Abandonment
Minor: Alcohol
Contains detailed descriptions of hunger/starvation and dehydration