Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

224 reviews

mpeach's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

noemie_13's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

eyescanbecruel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Animal death, Infidelity, Police brutality, and Cannibalism

trashcanmoose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Pandemic/Epidemic

luna_is_superior's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

Coryo is a HUGE unreliable narrator, how'd he make me love him until like the last chapter????

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

garlicbelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Overall a good book, a great read that took me back to my time as a teenager reading the original hunger games. My one qualm is that the pacing is weird and it ends very abruptly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ag_berry's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

emercedesrich's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book's prequel status is aided by reading the original trilogy first, for anyone who is just getting into this story for the first time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Slavery, Vomit, and Alcohol

kingspite618's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

rip coriolanus snow you would've loved therapy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, and Classism

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Torture, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

danicam's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Cannibalism and War