Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Amanecer en la cosecha by Suzanne Collins

506 reviews

heytherebriana's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent

olive_ia's review against another edition

5.0

dark sad 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: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Vomit

blizzardinsummer's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional 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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you know what? i’d be drunk all the time too if i was him. i bawled my eyes out so many times reading this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Torture, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Suicide, Medical content, Abandonment, War

lostgwennel's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging 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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This did NOT need so many song lyrics, especially not songs we’ve already seen multiple times in  previous books and especially not a FULL EIGHTEEN VERSE rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven in the last chapter 💀

Apart from that I like Haymitch’s narration style, I find it fresh and easy to read. Loved the epilogue.

Ampert

’s death scene

(skeleton)

was the most disturbed I’ve ever felt reading a hunger games novel.

Oh and also - if I was in the hunger games and I escaped the bloodbath and found a backpack

full of supplies, bottled water, potatoes and ‘a dozen’ apples

I would be way more grateful than Haymitch was wtf

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Suicide

sierr444's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective sad tense 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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Trigger warnings! Description of violence and death is very deep. Grief and depression. Drinking problems 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

esmefh's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol

flopsiful's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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It’s likely not 5* only because of the devastation of thinking that we are living through the 50th Hunger Games right now and we may never see the happy ending we’re hoping for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent

kristenbyers's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It has been a long time since I read The Hunger Games, but it didn’t matter. Haymitch was a memorable enough character and I could recall his basic involvement in the original series, and this prequel did a good job of diving deeper into his background and taking us through his iteration of the games. I loved the new characters but this story definitely ends on a sad note, and explains why Haymitch turns to alcohol as a coping mechanism.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Suicide, Blood, Alcohol

thecatsgrave's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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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haymitch can’t do anything right, my god

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

theirdarkmaterials's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I ripped through this and very much enjoyed being back in the world of the Hunger Games. I particularly liked seeing younger versions of the victors we meet in Catching Fire.

My main complaint is that we do rehash a lot of The Hunger Games - the reaping and lead-up to the games especially - sometimes with not enough of a unique spin. Having read the original trilogy, it is interesting seeing historical gaps filled in, but I'm not sure this book distinguishes itself enough to justify its existence.

Surprisingly I found the beginning of the games the part that lagged the most, as Haymitch spends a great deal of time on his own and we miss most of the initial action between the Newcomers and Careers. This is a little baffling considering this Quarter Quell has double the number of tributes, which I never felt was used to its full potential - the arena feels almost deserted at times. 

It's at its most interesting when Haymitch is with other characters, Maysilee being a standout. Haymitch himself is not really recognisable to the one we know in the original trilogy. Not enough of the other tributes are distinguishable - maybe it ought to have been a bit longer to flesh more characters out...?

Also - why didn't the gamemakers just kill Haymitch after all the shenanigans he got up to? As I was reading I grew more and more surprised that he's actually allowed to win the games - doesn't really track with what Snow is about. I kept waiting for the promised targeted mutts to appear. This isn't a Katniss/Peeta situation, it would have been very easy to bump Haymitch off without angering Capitol citizens.

I saw another review that said this book should have covered Haymitch's post-games years, when he's a victor and having to mentor year after year of tributes, delving into what life is like for victors in the Capitol. I think that would have made a lot more sense and addresses my main frustration over rehashing old ground. If we were going to do another book on the games themselves, maybe one from a careers perspective?

Sounds like I'm coming down quite hard on this, but overall I did have a good time reading it, just with some caveats. Certainly doesn't come close to the heights of the original trilogy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury