Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

71 reviews

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Murder, Genocide, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Police brutality, Torture, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Slavery, War, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, and Medical content

njthk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

First reread after many years.
This is going to be a modern classic, it it isn't already.
The only and first YA dystopia that really worked as what it wanted to be.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Slaps as hard as it did in middle school 🤌🏻 With adult eyes though I’m wondering if Katnis was autistic. I’m not sure the author wrote her with that intention but that was the final product and it made me love it more. A timeless classic dystopia that put the genre back on the map with its release. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Cannibalism and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

elizherlihy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Classism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Medical content

Minor: Child abuse, War, and Vomit

emilywemily6's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

Rereading this book reminded me how groundbreaking this series was when it came out. The pioneer of dystopian YA novels! I cried multiple times.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Classism, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Grief, and Medical content

inkysplodge's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Alcoholism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol and Body horror

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Animal cruelty, War, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

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.

---

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

jadeilona_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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

3.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Classism, Grief, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death of parent and Animal death

sophiesometimesreads's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This was actually my second time reading this (or maybe third?), the first being a long time ago, around when the books initially came out.

It still holds up today. Amazing, three-dimensional characters, an intricate dystopian world, super high stakes. It balances being YA and outlining the horrors of kids being forced to kill other kids. To be honest, I think it hit me harder now that I'm older and you truly realise how young people 12 to 18 are.

An amazing book that will hold up for years to come, and has some really interesting themes and discussions that stay relevant to this day.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gore and Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

eveningreverie's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I feel completely comfortable calling The Hunger Games, and its accompanying sequels, modern classics. The ease with which Suzanne Collins is able to directly comment on consistent, overarching themes while simultaneously weaving an immensely thrilling story is captivating. Each decision heightens the tension without a moment to breathe until the end of the final book. It's beautiful. It's horrifying. It's a hyperbolic expression of capitalist subjugation and the necessary ways moral panic can be coopted to change ingrained power systems. It even has fairly successful film translations—something few and far between. It's The Hunger Games, and for all its references, it is now a permanent part of American literary canon. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death