Take a photo of a barcode or cover
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Medical content, War
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Classism
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Misogyny, Racism, War
Graphic: Violence, Murder
Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Anyway, props to Suzanne, I think I never was gullible to propaganda thanks to Hunger Games.
Trying to forget is my full-time job now.
pre-read review:
I fucking LOVE Haymitch
But last one was a flop for me so I'm kinda worried a bit
Let's hope it going to be fire
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Slavery, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Torture
Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence
Moderate: Police brutality
Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, War
Ok now some light criticisms. Right off the bat I found it very difficult to keep it in my brain that Haymitch was the narrator (I know he went through some pretty intense trauma and also 25 years but still) except one bit right at the end where he was speaking to Plutarch, but even as a random 16yo boy his character was interesting and well developed. It just took a bit longer to get into the book initially than it would have if his character voice was more like the Haymitch we know and love. I found some of his internal monologue (the epilogue especially) to be more sappy?? and clunky? than one would expect from him. Lastly, the last 50 or so pages -while devastating- seemed like trauma and pain and death just for the sake of it? just to make the readers upset? Yes, I understand that’s kinda Snow’s thing but also I just kept thinking, why didn’t he do the same to Katniss’ family? Why didn’t Snow outwardly hate Haymitch more in the later books/movies? And also- if Plutarch is already working with the resistance, do they just never try anything else for the next 25 years? or were there other attempts that we just don’t know about? either way it felt….I don’t know. Like there are plot holes or at least really big chunks of information missing.
Overall, it was a great book. Reading it as an adult compared to when I read the hunger games in junior high is such a crazy difference. Back then I saw it more as a cool adventure story about overthrowing the government but now I just see kids (KIDS!!!) put in torturous situations. I teared up probably 7x in the first 50 pages just thinking about that fact. Man. Did I cry at the end? No but I might have if my mom wasn’t interrupting me every 30 seconds to read a facebook meme out loud.
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War
Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence
Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Alcoholism