Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

154 reviews

melongin's review against another edition

adventurous sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Police brutality, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Gun violence, Alcohol, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Addiction, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, War, Vomit, Torture, Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Pregnancy

corvingreene's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book very much feels like the second in a series, but not in a bad way. A lot happens in the book, but it feels sort of like a stepping-stone to get to the resolution of the third book. The 2nd and 3rd books are some of the best depiction in literature of PTSD that I've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child death, Murder, Classism, Grief, Blood, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Death, Addiction, and Mental illness

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug use, Medical content, Body horror, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Classism, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Alcohol, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Physical abuse, and Slavery

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

jacob_dion's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Grief, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The only painful thing about this book was how much Katnis can’t figure out her feelings. Otherwise this was a great follow up to book one and doesn’t suffer much from the “middle book syndrome” most 2nd books in a trilogy do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Addiction

Minor: Pregnancy and Adult/minor relationship

bella_01's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This was a re-read for me. The book was absolutely devastating. I forgot how heartbreaking the story is, particularly the first half of the book . It's a crazy experience to feel such sympathy for fictional characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Mental illness, Blood, and Police brutality

Minor: Miscarriage, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

elizherlihy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Violence, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Drug abuse, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Addiction, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Vomit

mtod26's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Violence, Death, Murder, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Police brutality

bootsmom3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Murder, Classism, Alcohol, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Colonisation, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

eyescanbecruel's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Alcohol, Death, Police brutality, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcoholism, War, Vomit, Addiction, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Grief