Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

40 reviews

viacrow's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Self harm, Torture, War, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Body horror, Classism, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Alcohol, Blood, Medical content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Incest, and Slavery

maarigirl's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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? Yes

4.75

This is the second time I've read this and I think as an adult I appreciate it even more no that I understand the trauma Katniss is dealing with better. The only reason I rated less than 5 stars is just because it's a fairly heavy book, which of course makes sense for the story but it meant I couldn't read as quickly as Catching Fire.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide

orchidlilly's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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: Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Classism, Murder, Body horror, Torture, and Mental illness

Moderate: Confinement, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Vomit, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Racism

Minor: Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, and Domestic abuse

balibasa's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

The end of this trilogy :(

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Drug use, War, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Self harm, Torture, and Violence

njschaal's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Death, Dysphoria, Grief, Drug use, Child death, Gun violence, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Eating disorder, Addiction, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Cursing

random19379's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Confinement, Violence, Suicide, Murder, and Medical content

danileah07's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood, Murder, Child death, Death, Gore, Police brutality, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Minor: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Suicide, Vomit, and Incest

gabycapellann's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Violence

arlorees's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, and Blood

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Vomit

valereads's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy. This book was definitely better that Catching Fire and an acceptable end to the series if not a perfect one.

I'm afraid to say that, like Catching Fire, this book had major pacing issues. Like Catching Fire this book had a slow first third which thankfully felt less tedious than the one in Catching Fire. The middle third was honestly forgettable. The rest of the pacing felt messy. There were chapters and chapters where nothing seemed to happen followed by a few chapters where everything moved so fast it was difficult to process everything. I felt like this weakened the impact of some of the more violent parts of the book, especially as we weren't given the opportunity to dwell on their impact in the slow chapters.

Once again the romantic relationships were one of the weakest parts of this novel. With the twist that both options in the love interest were kind of bad in this book. Katniss has clearly developed an unhealthy co-dependency with Peeta from their shared trauma and due to the trauma of losing district 12, Gale is filled with toxic anger and hate. I wish we'd gotten more focus on the platonic relationships in this book, especially the one between Katniss and Prim. The few moments we had of them together were lovely and Katniss grieving over Prim with Buttercup genuinely made me cry. The romantic relationships didn't make me nearly so emotional.

In addition I found it hard to care about a lot of the secondary characters introduced in this book let alone remember their names. They were underdeveloped which majorly reduced the impact of their violent deaths which I especially felt when they seemed to impact Katniss a lot.

On a more positive side, I appreciate how Collins continues to explore how the trauma the main characters have suffered and how it affects their mental states. Unfortunately one place where this is not as well handled is the sexual trauma one secondary character has experienced. I thought the way the discussions of his trauma and experiences of sexual assault and trafficking were poorly done and would probably be triggering for most survivors, this is exacerbated by the character in questions violent death later in the book.

Overall I'm not sure how I feel about this book. It definitely isn't as good as the first book but I do not regret reading. I'm glad I can now say I have finally finished reading this trilogy. (And, no, I will not be reading A Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes.)

Content Warnings: addiction (alcohol and drug addiction), body horror, child death, confinement, drug abuse, drug use, gore, grief, gun violence, medical content, panic attacks, police brutality, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, violence, animal death, excrement, references to genocide, medical content, mental illness, references to miscarriage, sexual assault, trafficking, torture

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence