Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Balada șerpilor și a păsărilor cântătoare by Suzanne Collins

440 reviews

joselyn_wren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Child death

Moderate: Cannibalism, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Body horror, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood, Vomit, Chronic illness, and Gun violence

bag_end_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Good prequel to the Hunger Games series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, Addiction, Child death, Murder, Classism, Death, Genocide, Blood, Bullying, Alcohol, Animal death, and Gun violence

paloverdepages's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Child death, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Vomit, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

lindyloo2's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, War, Gun violence, and Confinement

Minor: Bullying and Grief

mdwsn27's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: War, Slavery, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

aliengirlreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Child abuse, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal cruelty, Death, Police brutality, Child death, and Confinement

Moderate: Grief, Addiction, War, Medical content, Classism, Alcohol, Animal death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death of parent, Dementia, Vomit, and Blood

sam_gartley91's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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? Yes

5.0

I love this book and how it connects and explains things that lead to things happening in the original trilogy. Such wonderful descriptive writing! You both kind of feel for Snow but also really hate him. And you ultimately know where he ends up. But you still have that hope that he might change, that the circumstances might change him, that Lucy might change him!! He is such a narcissist but also blame the capital and his upbringing for making him this way. I’m glad he ultimately didn’t end up with Lucy because although he may have felt like he loved her, he just wanted control. Control so thus power over things was his main love and objective and motivator. And although we know he becomes the big bad you see him against the back drop of their poverty and the horrible adults in the school that make him look almost nice. There were definitely a lot of topics and discussion a that are brought up in this work of fiction that we as individuals and as a society really need to look in the mirror at and reflect on how they are similar to our current situations. This book at time reminds me 1984 with the constant war for the government to have control over the people. Definitely will ruminate on this one for a bit. I feel for Sajamus’s whole story line because he actively fought against it all and sadly believed Snow was his friend which contributed to his end… Felt for Tigeress too. Hoped she got a better life and learned beyond her situation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cannibalism, Blood, Gun violence, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent

olive_ia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Confinement, Blood, Murder, Classism, Torture, Child death, Violence, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Alcohol

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Classism, Blood, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, and War

headstuckinabook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: War