Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

76 reviews

jaythenerdbird's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

How is this series considered Young Adult? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, War, Vomit, Murder, Gore, Genocide, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

leeyongjin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Slavery

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, Death of parent, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Confinement, Genocide, War, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

Minor: Gaslighting, Gore, Vomit, and Death

judeb0x's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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: Body horror, Grief, Violence, Torture, Gore, War, Blood, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Death, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Genocide, Drug abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Vomit, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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, Blood, Grief, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, War, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Torture, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual assault

snowiceblackfruit77's review

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Alcoholism, Murder, Abandonment, Drug use, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Mental illness, Torture, Vomit, Addiction, Kidnapping, Medical content, Self harm, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

darkademiacookie's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Emotional abuse, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, War, Death, Vomit, Torture, Self harm, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Trafficking, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

jameslucpicante's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, War, Mental illness, Death, Genocide, and Grief

downsophialane's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

This book is by far the hardest of the series to read; it's just so bleak and so sad. Every character is so horrendously traumatised. It's hard to watch Gale becoming more and more warlike, especially knowing how that ends. It's hard to see Peeta as a twisted husk of the lovely boy he was before. The expansion of Finnick's character is emotional but very well done.

His death is just so incredibly unfair, and I had forgotten it... because we, and Katniss, are never given a chance to properly mourn him. Prim's death feels like such an obvious metaphor - an effective one - but we spent so much time with Finnick and understood so much of his trauma. And then, we aren't given a chance to mourn him - which is why I'm sure I totally forgot that it happened! In my mind Finnick will be living a long, peaceful life with Annie by the sea somewhere.

Mockingjay is a war book. It's not my subgenre and reading it is stressful and awful. But, some bloated pacing in the middle notwithstanding, it's a very good book, asking young adult readers challenging questions of culpability in oppressive systems. That passivity can be violent was a massively influential idea for me when I first read this book in 2010 (and forever after). 

It's wild that love triangle had the cultural grip that it did because it's actually so sophisticated and complex? The key relationships and characters are so fascinating. I will never not be thinking about Peeta Mellark and Haymitch Abernathy and Finnick Odair. 

Some of the pacing in the middle was a little bloated but that ending was something to behold. Every decision.

The rebels win the war.... off page? Our heroine is unconscious for it? Such an interesting subversion of the Chosen One trope.

Excellent narration by Tatiana Maslany. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Mental illness, War, Death, Child death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Self harm

louu's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Buttercup is probably as mighty as katniss. (And my favorite) 
This is a reread and i forgot how dark this one last book was. 

Honestly i hope people could be kind to eachother. With the war in Palestina, we're no better than fiction. What i find truly hurtful os that real people out there is really suffering from the non logical power starved leaders. 

I really enjoyed this book, but i still do not like the romance part. There's so much hopelessness in the whole story that it all seems out of place, although I guess that's the fun of it. That love can grow everywhere. (still give's me the ick all that romance, mainly in book two). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Genocide, and Panic attacks/disorders

sandrinepicotte's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Murder, and Violence