Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

872 reviews

danielledeal's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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What is there to say, Suzanne Collins has done it again. This is the first of the Hunger Games universe I've read rather than simply watching the movies, and I've clearly been missing out. Her attention to detail, the way the story unfolds was awe inspiring. Even knowing how it ends, I was gripping the pages to see how each twist and turn would end up. Don't start this book without a few tissues nearby! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, War

emmiej's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death

jessreadsbooks25's review against another edition

4.75

emotional sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

idaandihn's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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watched grave of the fireflies after this and now i feel i have to sue both Suzanne Collins and Hayao Miyazaki for extensive emotional damage

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Torture

indigo_chase's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol

bedwellbooks's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

lakeisha_reads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, Classism

sierraaahlynn's review against another edition

4.75

sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief

kathi_90's review against another edition

5.0

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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Vomit, Police brutality, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, War

cassroberts89's review against another edition

2.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I hate to say this, I really do, but this was not worth pre-ordering and staying up late to read. I don't have time for a full review, just know that Sunrise adds basically nothing to the Hunger Games world. All characters, save perhaps for Maysilee, fall terribly flat. I first noticed this when I had a hard time even picturing characters in my mind. I went back to check: Yep. Virtually no physical descriptions. At all. I also could not buy into the deep, life-long love between Haymitch and Lenore, who has the personality of a wild-at-heart cardboard box. We are given like 5 minutes with all of the people Haymitch adores before he's shipped off to the longest possible prep/training session. Geez, this was like... 2/3 of the book? Idk I'd have to check. It felt like forever. Snore. The only real purpose seemed to be to give Haymitch and his fellow district 12 tributes time to get to know each other, and to give obvious cameos time to feed him info for the attempted sabotage of the arena. Which he is randomly and suddenly completely on board with doing. For some reason, that we don't really know. Because we don't really know him. Honestly, the entire book felt like a cheap, fan-fic-y attempt to "explain" why future-Haymitch is the way he is, knows the things he knows, and does the things he does, but not in any sort of organic way. It is very much just walking back from the end result. Does that make sense?

MAJOR spoiler below:

P.S. The very end (Lenore) was so implausible that I felt absolutely nothing. Poisoned gumdrops randomly left in the middle of a meadow? That's how we're doing this, Snow?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gore

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Torture