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Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death of parent, Murder
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Medical content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, War
Minor: Ableism, Cursing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Suicide, Terminal illness, Death of parent, War
incredibly written, amazing characters. just such a treat but also i am emotionally wrecked.
suzanne collins has done it again folks. i liked this SO much more than songbirds and snakes.
THE ALLUSIONS …. RAAAHHH
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt
Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War
Minor: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma
I wasn't sure I would read any more Hunger Games books after The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. But then Suzanne Collins centered the most important character in this fictional universe- Haymitch Abernathy.
I love/hated this book. I don't know how to explain it. We see a lot of backstory not just for Haymitch, but for Effie, Wyriss, Beetee, Plutarch - maybe too many characters? Yet I like knowing more context. President Snow is at his peak of ruthlessness here.
I felt this volume, while not badly written, wasn't as well done as the original trilogy. But then the challenges were different since all of the readers come into it knowing about how things have turned out for Haymitch later in life. I guess the story felt simpler or more basic in some parts. Didn't keep me from crying at the end.
The story was at its best when it showed how bureaucracy as the real killer, treating people as interchangeable in service to numbers.
**
A word about thestorygraph -- Are book summaries on this site being composed by AI now? If so, that's a huge disappointment.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Murder, War
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Violence, Blood, War
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit
Minor: Rape, Suicide