Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins

266 reviews

leo_314's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Excrement, Pregnancy, Colonisation

dottiewankenobi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional 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

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I somehow managed to not cry until the last chapters, and now I can't stop. What have you done to me, Suzanne Collins. I'm never going to recover

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I think for the whole book, I had one complaint (

I didn't love that one of the last chapters was essentially song fiction, even if I understand why it was put in there

). On the whole, this was an absolutely devastating addition to the canon of THG and Panem. We get to see the history of the rebellion even more than was present in TBOSAS (from what I hear, I haven't read it yet); we get to revisit characters and expand on their backstories; we get to see the impacts of Capitol propaganda. I liked Haymitch before reading this but now I love him. In a situation where so many others might turn bitter (understandably so), he was gentle and kind. He was a good brother (I'm tearing up again lmao) and a good friend. There was so much suffering in this book, and yet the moments of humanity shone through again and again. People are joking that Suzanne Collins wrote this book to show the snowbaird shippers how evil Snow can be, but I don't care about that. To me it felt like she was saying, again, that kindness and compassion may not be rewarded but it's always the right thing to do. I can't think about the other D12 tributes (

and the other Newcomers, and Lou Lou, and Woodbine

) without crying lmao.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Medical trauma, Death of parent

Minor: Genocide, Miscarriage, Rape, Torture

emily_george's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Suicide attempt

gillmomi's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Not sure how to feel about this. On one hand I love the characters so much so any chance to revisit them I’ll take. On the other this bordered on cheap fan service, name dropping beloved characters every ten pages for the sake of explaining things I didn’t want explained

all the allusions to LGB, katniss’ parents even the mellarks like enough is enough

I don’t think it really added much to my understanding of the world, other than reaffirming the thoughtless cruelty of the games. Certainly it highlighted the ineptitude of the capitol, balanced against their effective lies and propaganda. I guess I'm just searching for the point. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture

bookblanketmaker's review against another edition

5.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Rape

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, War

aneanara's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I need to stare at a wall for a couple of hours and then lay down and never raise again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Grief

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

stateofhailey's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Torture, Forced institutionalization

Minor: Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Cannibalism, Death of parent, War

aaron_246's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Pregnancy

jesspizzinga's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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: No

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Whilst it is a super popular fiction book, I would say it’s written very much aware of the political climate today. It clearly talks about rape and abuse towards women in addition to living in a disadvantaged district. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Rape, Violence, Blood, Vomit, War