Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Kosogłos by Suzanne Collins

432 reviews

catsbreadbikes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

TIP: do not read this book if you have recently lost a family member. Even if you've read the book before amd so know what's coming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

paloverdepages's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? Yes

5.0

This time around, I finished the book in a matter of hours. I can appreciate the story so much more now.

Prim's death

was the first time a book made me cry. That memory is so strong in my head that I had forgotten how horrific some other parts are. 10/10 for catharsis, exactly what I needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Vomit

divinehealer14's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

3.0

This is one of the hardest, most depressing books I have ever read in my whole life. 
I literally had to take breaks from reading because it was too dark, too violent, too heartbreaking for me. 
Apart from that, I must say it was my least favourite in the trilogy; there are really a few redeeming moments that provide hope, the pacing is off, the ending I found to be extremely rushed, considering the emotional, physical and psychological damage that survivors will carry forever, and I had a few issues with how the characters were handled. 
Firstly,

Finnick and Prim’s deaths

How is it possible that literally nothing is even said about that??? 
Secondly, I think that it makes a lot of sense to have made Katniss so unbearable in this book, given everything she has been through, and I wouldn’t change that. It makes her imperfect, and realistic. But some of her choices and actions just didn’t feel like her. I was really disappointed when at the end she voted yes to having new Hunger Games with Capitol kids (which are never mentioned again). Katniss wouldn’t have done that, after all her pain. And I get that she has been hurt so badly she basically lost her humanity, but that made her seem so heartless to me. 

In conclusion, I thought this book was extremely hard to finish and had some flaws that I found distracting in the story 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

samanthaeumir's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

dizzyizzyy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Miscarriage, Slavery, Vomit, Trafficking, and Pregnancy

hjb_128's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

c00kie123's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Honestly I am still mad about

Prim and finnick

unnecessary deaths, but really this is a WAR. people die! I don't understand why some people are missing that! 
Also, some people complain about the love triangle between katniss, gale, and peeta. However, I don't think this book is a romantic thing. It doesn't have the same feel as the other books.
Some people complain about the book being boring, but that's not the case for me. The only boring part for me is (slight not really spoiler) when there is that long period of time when snow is alive and katniss is silent. Personally, this is the most boring book of the three, only because in the first and second book included the actual hunger games and not becoming part of the Capitol. But, let's face it, we all saw it coming.
If y'all really don't like this, I can see why, but I give this a 5/5!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Addiction

saliwali's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

kalyn_c's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Blood

r1vana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.5

In this book, I saw a more flawed Katniss. She is a strong character who was/is burdened by the power hungry old people; and their audacity. 
She is a total mess and psychologically not treatable. 
Reading her being filmed and act with cameras around her was hard to read. It’s like she was back in the capitol but more traumatized then ever.

On the other hand, I hate love triangles. And this book did not help either. There were times I hated Katniss for actually playing both of them. The plot was already stressful enough. I just didn’t care about Katniss’s love story. Honestly I preferred the films interpretation. 

Hunger Games is an anthem. Will always cherish it.

PSA: I wanted to read this series because I still haven’t watching the ballad of songbirds and snares. But I also wanted to read Crimson Rivers (an ff).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child death