Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Изгревът в деня на Жътвата by Suzanne Collins

1150 reviews

mmaniacle's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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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Great fan service that doesn’t force its way into the existing world. Works as a standalone story, an intro to the franchise, or a supplement to what you’ve already read.

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Content Warnings

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

lakota333's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Alcohol

cgret's review against another edition

4.75

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 abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Torture, Murder

ltallant's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Suzanne Collins is great. I really enjoyed this retelling of Haymitch’s Hunger Games. I really enjoyed the elements that were tied in from A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and the original The Hunger Games trilogy. 

Katniss being the daughter of Haymitch’s old best friend was really special. 
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.

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Content Warnings

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

kenziekat'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: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol

ekgranstro's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage

katiexdrink's review against another edition

5.0

challenging 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: Complicated

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suzanne collins I am invoicing you for therapy

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Torture, Alcohol, War

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism

athenaantipaxos's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad tense fast-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: Yes

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Broke my heart I love Haymich more than ever now 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol

ewiley's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: Yes

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As someone who read and loved hunger games growing up, it was great (not emotionally but narratively) to finally learn haymitch’s origin story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence

Minor: Torture

benke's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol