Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

66 reviews

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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: Alcohol, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Mental illness, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Hate crime, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Animal death, Murder, Body horror, Child death, Grief, and Torture

marslotus'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

4.75

I love the author's ability to make you so easily love and hate the characters you need to love and hate. I also think in the hands of a lesser writer, a lot of parts of this book could have been so frustrating to read, but something like the fact that I had no clue what Peeta was thinking the entire games

only to be revealed at the end

is a storyline that commonly makes me roll my eyes, but I found myself so enraptured in the mystery of it all. And when Katniss is grappling with new romantic emotions, it feels so real how there's no good answer for her (at least for now?).
I will say some parts of this book were, grammatically, weirdly phrased to me? But that's just a nitpick. I also forgot that this was one of the first popularized YA dystopia novels, so I was laughing at the novel in the beginning as it rapid-fire made up new words this society uses which I know is a silly dystopia novel trope. Luckily, beyond the first few chapters, this aspect didn't bother me to greatly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, and Gore

Minor: Torture and Fire/Fire injury

flamesocks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Violence, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Medical content, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, War, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cannibalism

wahseissej's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

I inhaled this book when I was 13. Nothing else mattered. Sleep schedule was ruined. God bless. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Child death, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

arinheck's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Animal death, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Body horror, and Child death

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Murder, Genocide, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Police brutality, Torture, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Slavery, War, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, and Medical content

njthk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

First reread after many years.
This is going to be a modern classic, it it isn't already.
The only and first YA dystopia that really worked as what it wanted to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent

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

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