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Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Murder
Moderate: Slavery, War
Minor: Sexual violence
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Violence
Moderate: Police brutality
Minor: Sexual violence, Suicide
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, War
Minor: Addiction, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Child death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Vomit
Minor: Sexual violence, War
I don't know if I have enough literary knowledge to know what would make a book perfect, but to me, in my heart, this is a five star read because it enthralled me in a way few things have done these last years. Ballad managed to do so for the most part, but this just brought me back to my voracious reader days, back to reading the original books for the first time, blazing through them one after the other, cooped up in my grandma's room, or my bed, or wherever I could sit down and read.
I think the overall message is pretty explicitly stated, and the reminder at the end of maybe not seeing the change yourself but /being/ part of it is very important. Specially right now.
I really felt for haymitch, and all along I just remembered the last things said by Hermes in hadestown, about returning to a story even when you know the way it ends. I don't know, it doesn't have that much to do with anything guess, but it just was in my head a lot.
I literally just finished the book and need time to really gather my thoughts. I love the explanations we got for some things, and the epilogue devastated me.
Anyway, great book, I read it on my kobo but will be definitely buying it in hardcover, if possible. Maybe in Spanish... Maybe I'll re-read it translated.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Police brutality, War
Minor: Drug use, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Alcohol
Hated it in the sense that it gave me emotional damage that I fear I might not recover from
Suzanne you didn't need to go that hard with the details of the Capitol's cruelty, I'm already fighting for my life out there I don't need fictional horrors seared into my brain on top of the regular ones 😭
I'm sure I missed some details in the story but i don't think I'll be strong enough mentally to re read for a good while 🫠
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism