Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

192 reviews

decie's review against another edition

adventurous dark

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Violence, Confinement, Classism, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Xenophobia

Moderate: War and Cannibalism

Minor: Abandonment and Vomit

lindyloo2's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, War, Gun violence, and Confinement

Minor: Bullying and Grief

aliengirlreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Child abuse, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal cruelty, Death, Police brutality, Child death, and Confinement

Moderate: Grief, Addiction, War, Medical content, Classism, Alcohol, Animal death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death of parent, Dementia, Vomit, and Blood

hereiskyra's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

This was not a bad book, I just don’t know if I’m the best audience for it. I went into this pretty blind discounting the fact that I know Snow turns out to be a villain in the Hunger Games and that this is essentially his origin story. 

Unfortunately, I didn’t really like any of the characters. I felt as though Lucy Gray wasn’t a well-rounded character and her and Coriolanus’ relationship felt very forced and almost impersonal as the reader. 

And I personally hated that it was all from his perspective (even though obviously it’s his story) because he as dull and I was barely even rooting for him. 

I kind of worked out the majority of what was going to happen around 60% in and after that I was just waiting for the hammer to drop and something to happen. But, even that felt fairly anticlimactic once it was said and done.

Now, I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy this at all because it wasn’t terrible! It wasn’t a good romance and it wasn’t even a great villain origin story but… it was cool to be in the world again and to see what the world was like so soon after the war rather than decades after it. 

I’m still and forever putting my vote in the “tell Haymitch’s story” box. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

olive_ia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Confinement, Blood, Murder, Classism, Torture, Child death, Violence, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Alcohol

ameliafr7's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.0

Bro is crazy!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Police brutality, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Confinement

Minor: War and Death of parent

angela005's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Addiction, Drug use, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

lilawsahar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

First off, I would like to state that I wrote a letter to Susanne Collins in 2009/2010 about writing another book, so I’m going to be delulu and say I inspired this book 13 years later haha. 

Wow, what a crazy backstory for Snow.

I can’t believe that Snows family was directly responsible for the start of the hunger games/the development of what the hunger games became. For him to have the experience of how horrid the games were, by being placed inside of them, and he still threw kids in there time and time again shows how truely horrid he is.  Also him to fall in love with his victor and still have the ruthlessness to kill her even though she had survived that traumatic event just shows how he never cared for anyone but himself.

Do not read this book if you think it’ll be a light read. It is not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Grief, Child abuse, and Torture

shellind75's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Medical trauma, Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Body horror, Death, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Ableism, and Animal cruelty

ashwatever98's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Classism, Confinement, and Genocide

Moderate: Death, War, and Violence

This book brought me back memories of the other three books. The themes of classism and war were both well thought out in this story. It works as a good prequel to the original story.