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Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Violence, Police brutality, Grief
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Will I be seated for the film adaptation??? Yes!
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War
Haymitch’s games were brutal. He experienced so much loss. The theme of implied submission and his fight against that, the consequences of losing everyone he loved, and then giving up was really compelling. His friendship with Ampert, BeeTee’s son from district 3, and the climax of that friendship, where Haymitch was unable to stop Ampert from being completely devoured by carnivorous squirrels was horrifying.
Mags and Wiress being his mentors was bittersweet, especially given the way they were clearly broken by the Capitol in response to the role they played in undermining the games.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Vomit, Classism
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Police brutality, Death of parent, War
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcohol
Minor: Bullying
which, of course, is the saving grace of the hunger games. it really might be the best story in YA lit of all time. i called for her to write a new book centering on haymitch's games not too long before it was actually announced, and i'm very pleased that i was so right for that. i don't think it was absolutely brilliant or anything, and though i've rated it a half star higher than TBOSAS i might still actually like that book better, but i think it was a very satisfying return to panem and re-contextualization of haymitch's character all the same. so i simply don't really get many of the criticisms i've seen of the book, to be honest. personally i'm happy to see suzanne keep writing new stories in panem for as long as she sees fit, though at this point i'd have no clue where she would set another full-scale novel now that we've run out of district 12 victors to use. i've said this before too, but maybe she could do novellas of the games of the former victors we saw in the original trilogy? or something that explores the underground formation of the rebellion? (those things could probably be combined somehow as i think about it?) something explaining how panem came to be? although the ambiguity of that i think has always been intentional, so that might be too much to hope for.
anyways! point is, though full books might be difficult to execute at this point, i'd take anything she wanted to give. so i'm just continuing to put that energy out there 👀
finally. sending all my forever love and adoration to lucy gray baird, who i was not expecting to still haunt the narrative this much forty years later, and was so pleasantly surprised to find was still basically an active character in this book. she is still alive out there in the woods i just know it!
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Gore
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Police brutality, Alcohol
Suzanne Collins better sleep with one eye open tonight.
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Alcohol
Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Drug use, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, War