Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

160 reviews

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Murder, Torture, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Child death, Alcoholism, Murder, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, War, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Vomit, Death of parent, Animal death, Physical abuse, Body horror, and Police brutality

Minor: Medical content, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

voldycat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Death, Child death, Murder, Genocide, Blood, Violence, and Addiction

Moderate: Torture, Gore, War, Police brutality, Grief, Drug use, and Death of parent

Minor: Medical content

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Slaps as hard as it did in middle school 🤌🏻 With adult eyes though I’m wondering if Katnis was autistic. I’m not sure the author wrote her with that intention but that was the final product and it made me love it more. A timeless classic dystopia that put the genre back on the map with its release. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Cannibalism and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

katenovah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Blood, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Death of parent, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Alcohol, and Animal death

marxnapxrez's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense medium-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

Going absolutely feral....

I don't remember why my twelve yearld old self decided not to read this book but my god... How good they are.
I loved the movies and I thought nows the time and I enjoyed every second of it
It's good, entertaining, keeps you on the edge but at the same time is light-paced, hurtful, and everybody knows I love a good unreliable narrator.
Can't wait to see more and more of them

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Genocide, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Medical content, Murder, Torture, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Cannibalism

elizherlihy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Classism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Medical content

Minor: Child abuse, War, and Vomit

emilywemily6's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

Rereading this book reminded me how groundbreaking this series was when it came out. The pioneer of dystopian YA novels! I cried multiple times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Classism, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Grief, and Medical content

inkysplodge's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Alcoholism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol and Body horror

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Animal cruelty, War, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

raisinreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Suzanne Collins very much does not utilize the "show, don't tell" technique, which is something that can really put me off when it comes to writing. Yet, despite this, the heart of her characters and her story are so strong that her writing style did little to keep me from loving the book. 

The Hunger Games does not pull punches when it comes to political and social allegory on the US. It is brutal, damning, and so tragically accurate.

 I love the emphasis on how community and kindness bring us strength, how systems of power aim to pit people against one another, how if you constantly keep people down they will not have the time or health to fight back. There is an assessment of privilege, of the commodification of tragedy, of hypersurveillance, of how all of these systems hurt and change children. Trauma runs deep throughout the entirety of the text.

And there is such love in the characters, in how they maintain their humanity, in how they take care of each other. It is love, connection, humanity that make us human and that is almost constantly emphasized.

The metaphors and allegories and characters within the text could be analyzed in multi-hundred page essay, but I will just end by saying I believe this is one of the most well-done dystopian novels in recent years and it continues to stick with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Classism, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Addiction, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts