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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
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, War, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Classism
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical content, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Torture, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, War
Minor: Homophobia, Rape
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Violence, Murder, War
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Slavery, Torture, Cannibalism
As a standalone, this book is pretty decent. The characters are a little blank and it just feels like one of those super easy, quickly digestible YA reads. But it also doesn't really work as a standalone, naturally, falling somewhere in the middle of a 5-part series. And it also does NOT work with the series.
It really overuses characters from previous books to give itself credibility but that doesn't hold the book up. It's kind of just a bad rewrite of the first Hunger Games book if I'm honest. Very formulaic and predictable. Suzanne Collins really lost the magic with this one. I mean, it was sputtering out pretty badly with the previous book but this one absolutely doused it.
I'll still watch the movie and I still love the original trilogy but the more she adds on to it, the sloppier it gets unfortunately. I don't regret reading it, I did still enjoy it. Let me be clear, Suzanne Collins' mediocrity is still better than a lot of people can ever hope to be. But it did not feel like a true Suzanne Collins masterpiece.
Read at your own discretion and temper your expectations. It'll still break your heart, just like 10% of the usual amount for this series.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Torture
Minor: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury