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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

75 reviews

samflowerv6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.75

I LOVE THE HUNGER GAMES!! Peeta is so boyfriend and I just want to protect everlark with my heart and soul!!! Okay so there’s a lot of debate on when Katniss fell in love with Peeta online

but she IS in love with him when she “fakes it” in the interview saying when he didn’t have to be a threat she could be honest about how she felt. Her inner thoughts make it so obvious how much she cares for him, like deep deep love. Just my opinion. Also my heart hurts at the end because he thinks she faked it all and I just AHHH

  EVERLARKKKK

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?'
I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Kidnapping, Torture, Child death, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Physical abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent and Cannibalism

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Murder, Torture, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Child death, Alcoholism, Murder, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, War, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Vomit, Death of parent, Animal death, Physical abuse, Body horror, and Police brutality

Minor: Medical content, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

mellyaimz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Body horror, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

sashagalkina's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? No

4.75

It's not often that I think of a book throughout the day and can't wait to continue. This was exactly that kind of read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

raisinreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Suzanne Collins very much does not utilize the "show, don't tell" technique, which is something that can really put me off when it comes to writing. Yet, despite this, the heart of her characters and her story are so strong that her writing style did little to keep me from loving the book. 

The Hunger Games does not pull punches when it comes to political and social allegory on the US. It is brutal, damning, and so tragically accurate.

 I love the emphasis on how community and kindness bring us strength, how systems of power aim to pit people against one another, how if you constantly keep people down they will not have the time or health to fight back. There is an assessment of privilege, of the commodification of tragedy, of hypersurveillance, of how all of these systems hurt and change children. Trauma runs deep throughout the entirety of the text.

And there is such love in the characters, in how they maintain their humanity, in how they take care of each other. It is love, connection, humanity that make us human and that is almost constantly emphasized.

The metaphors and allegories and characters within the text could be analyzed in multi-hundred page essay, but I will just end by saying I believe this is one of the most well-done dystopian novels in recent years and it continues to stick with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Classism, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Addiction, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

lucyford's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I read this after having seen the movies, and it’s like a whole different story. The plot is so well written and the characters are all so complex. While the level of reading is a bit low for my taste, I still thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and can’t wait to start the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Gore, Violence, Murder, Genocide, Grief, and Body horror

Moderate: Police brutality, Addiction, Confinement, Vomit, Alcohol, Physical abuse, and Suicide

elfghostthingy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

I absolutely love the hunger games so when I found a free audiobook on Spotify I couldn't resist
I would've finished it quicker but there's a holiday and I usually listen to audiobooks while doing school work or while riding the bus
Loved this, so sad the others by the same narrator aren't available

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Child death, Gore, Murder, Death, Blood, Alcoholism, Grief, Medical trauma, Genocide, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent and War

Definitely a 16+ book imo Not for people that murder bothers them way too much because it's the theme of the book

leeyongjin's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Drug use, Violence, Animal death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Genocide, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

Minor: Abandonment and Cannibalism

sadiaa's review against another edition

adventurous

4.75

Rereading a nostalgic series

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Classism, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, War, Grief, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Blood, and Murder