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Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Violence, Murder, War
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder
incredibly written, amazing characters. just such a treat but also i am emotionally wrecked.
suzanne collins has done it again folks. i liked this SO much more than songbirds and snakes.
THE ALLUSIONS …. RAAAHHH
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt
Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape
Minor: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, Classism
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War
Minor: Torture
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Slavery, Torture, Cannibalism
As a standalone, this book is pretty decent. The characters are a little blank and it just feels like one of those super easy, quickly digestible YA reads. But it also doesn't really work as a standalone, naturally, falling somewhere in the middle of a 5-part series. And it also does NOT work with the series.
It really overuses characters from previous books to give itself credibility but that doesn't hold the book up. It's kind of just a bad rewrite of the first Hunger Games book if I'm honest. Very formulaic and predictable. Suzanne Collins really lost the magic with this one. I mean, it was sputtering out pretty badly with the previous book but this one absolutely doused it.
I'll still watch the movie and I still love the original trilogy but the more she adds on to it, the sloppier it gets unfortunately. I don't regret reading it, I did still enjoy it. Let me be clear, Suzanne Collins' mediocrity is still better than a lot of people can ever hope to be. But it did not feel like a true Suzanne Collins masterpiece.
Read at your own discretion and temper your expectations. It'll still break your heart, just like 10% of the usual amount for this series.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail