Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Hunger games: Síla vzdoru by Suzanne Collins

60 reviews

raichou's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Ich habe es gerade zu Ende gelesen und bin noch etwas aufgewühlt. 
Das Finale war so unglaublich emotional. Es wird auf so viele Arten gezeigt wie Menschen manipuliert werden können. 

Ich kann gar nicht ausdrücken, was ich gerade fühle, aber gerade die letzten Kapitel haben mich so mitgenommen. 

Es ist der Teil der mir am Ende der Harry Potter Reihe gefehlt hat. Die Art wie ein Krieg Menschen prägt, traumatisiert und wie das ganze erst einmal verarbeitet werden muss. Hier gab es rohe Emotionen die nicht einfach weggesteckt werden können.

Ich muss sagen, ich glaube dieses Serienfinale ist bisher eines meiner liebsten. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Alcoholism, Addiction, War, Grief, Murder, Violence, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Torture

luminifera's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

A good sequel and good closure for Katniss. Would like a sequel focused on another character too, showing what happens to Panem next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Murder, Violence, Addiction, Gore, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Police brutality, Body horror, Blood, Confinement, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Child death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Misogyny, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Vomit, Pregnancy, Classism, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Gaslighting

Heaviest book of the three. The main cast goes off the deep end. One of the character sacrifices themselves for the others. Several characters die.

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

Mockingjay is the third book in "The Hunger Games" series and it's my lowest rated book out of the three. 

The first two books seemed to have non stop action, and while this book had action, it takes a while to start up. The whole first third of the book is about

life at District 13

and it was a bit boring. 

When I first read this in my early 20s I was a Gale fan, I was rooting for Katniss to end up with Gale.

In the past, when she ended up with Peeta, I was disappointed.

Now that I'm in my early 30s I'm not disappointed with the epilogue, I was team Peeta this time around. 

I didn't 100% love the ending but this was still a good book, overall. Even though this was the lowest rating I've given a Hunger Games book (both the first books got 5 stars from me) I still enjoyed it. 

I'm giving this 4 stars out of 5. 

I listened to this for free on scribd 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Body horror, Child death, War, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Child abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, and Mental illness

viacrow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Self harm, Torture, War, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Body horror, Classism, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Alcohol, Blood, Medical content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Incest, and Slavery

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Classism, Murder, Body horror, Torture, and Mental illness

Moderate: Confinement, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Vomit, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Racism

Minor: Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, and Domestic abuse

rosita's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Child death, Death, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual violence, Death of parent, Addiction, Torture, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism and Miscarriage

gracewiley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Murder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, War, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Slavery, Gore, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Animal death, Pedophilia, Rape, and Child abuse

balibasa's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.0

The end of this trilogy :(

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Drug use, War, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Self harm, Torture, and Violence

peso's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Torture, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment

night3aven's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - review

Death.
Madness.
Sadness.
Hate.
Broken families.
Broken hearts.
This is what war brings.
And Suzanne Collins makes us understand it, in the worst (but also, the best) possible way.

I can't say it's a perfect novel, but I can say it's one of the most real, most true stories ever.

I didn't particularly enjoy the beginning of the book, which I found slow and unnecessarily long-winded at times.
However, the authoress' excellent writing style comes through again in this last volume.
Although she doesn't use a particularly complex language, she makes vivid and clear descriptions of the events and always manages to capture the reader's attention. Her strong point is the great emotional leverage she has on the reader, which at times, though, proves to be too overwhelming.
Her skill is such that the protagonist's emotions are mirrored by the reader, who continues to suffer, rejoices in small victories, but continues to be tired and destroyed along with the main character. For this reason,  reading can often be confusing and tiring.
Some narrative choices, however, such as the love triangle between Peeta, Gale and Katniss, (already present in the previous books, but in this one with an higher importance) can sometimes be superfluous.
The characters are always well characterized and some of them have interesting evolutions (as for Peeta or Beetee), but the great number of different characters can sometimes make us lose focus on the single ones.
Katniss, in this book, is subdued, she is not the strong and fighting protagonist she used to be.
She is emotionally destroyed, tired, upset, indecisive, suffering (and the reader inevitably feels all this).
For this reason probably, the narrative speed is sometimes intercut and not linear

(the mission to retrieve Peeta, in which Katniss is not present, lasts only one chapter, while convincing Katniss to become the Mockingjay takes 3 chapters or more)

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The story, despite everything, after the initial part is very engaging.

I particularly enjoyed Katniss' "visit" to District 8, the battle in District 2 and the final mission in Capitol City.

Even though the story is told by a teenage protagonist (and with precarious mental and physical conditions, to say the least), the story of the war is realistic, raw and painful to the right point.
The final part of the book is the most frenetic, but at the same time the most controversial.

As the story goes on, the districts, from being victims, begin to become executioners and the similarities between President Snow and President Coin begin to become worrying.

Sometimes the danger results excessive, almost "targeted" against the protagonist; I also considered the death of some characters superfluous and useless for the plot:

while Boggs' death is symbolic and useful to send Katniss on her mission, Finnick's (just married and one of the few really happy characters) and Prim's deaths don't seem necessary.

We notice more and more then, how Katniss is not herself

(the girl who was on fire would never have accepted to make children take part at the Hunger Games again)

, but in the final fortunately the girl is able to recover, at least a bit

(killing President Coin is her final gesture of rebellion, her awareness as a representative not so much of the rebellion, as of justice herself)

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The ending is not perfect, but it remains consistent with the story told, albeit terrible and painful.

At the end, it's back to the starting point. The author's greatest flaws are at the same time her greatest strengths. Yes, Katniss is over-emotional, but that's justified in situations like those depicted in the book. Yes, the death of some characters may not have made sense, but war does not follow a logic. Rich, poor, young, old, good, bad: war affects everyone with no holds barred.
I cannot say that "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay" is a perfect book, but I can say that it is one of the books that really left something in me. I can say that the Hunger Games, that Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch, Gale, Prim, Finnick, all the others and everything they went through, will always remain in my mind and in my heart.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Torture, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Gun violence, and Addiction

Minor: Abortion, Medical content, Drug use, Grief, and Suicide attempt