Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

235 reviews

sareidle's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I watched the movie version first and was happy to find out that it was quite faithful to the book. I gained a lot of insight by reading Coriolanus's thoughts and motivations. The plot became even more tragic and twisted by seeing the events through Coryo's perspective.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

m4ferglez's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, Addiction, Death, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Toxic relationship

brandonssmead's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: War, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

andyreacos's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Murder, Death of parent, Child death, and Cannibalism

tarlie_12_xoxo's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Cannibalism

aely's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was awful and disturbing and terrifying and oh my god—

SEJANUS DESERVED BETTER

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, War, Child death, Death, Classism, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Blood, Medical content, and Confinement

Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, Vomit, Drug use, Animal death, and Drug abuse

tiddlerrr's review against another edition

challenging informative 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

5.0

Suzanne Collins never misses

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Classism, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Death

callie_castle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Abandonment, Blood, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Body horror, Drug abuse, Violence, Drug use, Child death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, War, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Police brutality, Murder, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Classism, and Death of parent

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Alcoholism, Violence, Death, Blood, Alcohol, Drug use, Addiction, Child death, Murder, Grief, Gore, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Animal death, Mental illness, and Police brutality

halaagmod's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

1.75

This book should've been done much, much differently. So much wasted potential, in my opinion, for a Snow backstory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Gun violence, War, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cannibalism and Death of parent