Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

24 reviews

sophie42's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child abuse, Violence, War, Death of parent, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Classism

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Trafficking, Vomit, Alcohol, Classism, and Gore

Minor: Grief, Sexism, and Toxic friendship

jjpope's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Torture, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Cannibalism, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Abandonment

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I'm a huge Hunger Games fan, and I really wanted to like this book but honestly it felt endless.

The minute Corolianus hops on that train after the HG ended I literally sighed out loud, I thought it was going to timeskip to like when Corolianus was an adult.

In my opnion, there was a lot of unnecesary hurdles in Corolianus path that seemed to be there only to make the reader empathize out of pity because he never came out of them wiser or better or even worse given that it's a villain story.
Lucy and Corolianus' love story was utterly disturbing and it would've been much better if those two were best friends or something. The paralells between Lucy and Katniss were nailed over and over and I thought them meaningless to be honest, since there was never any kind of love tension/estranged family bond between Katniss and Snow in the original trilogy.
If anything I think this book made me dislike Coriolanus not as a character, but as a villain which is a shame because President Snow is one the scarier antagonists YA books have.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Xenophobia

mscalls's review

challenging dark informative tense medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Xenophobia, Addiction, and Cannibalism