Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Kosogłos by Suzanne Collins

307 reviews

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

kells__bells's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

When I first read this book years ago, I wasn’t a huge fan of how it ended. However, reading this now I discovered how human Katniss is. She never wanted to be a hero. She only wanted happiness and freedom to be herself with those she loved. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gun violence, War, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

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

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

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

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: War, Torture, Police brutality, Mental illness, Genocide, Blood, Drug use, Death, Medical content, Grief, Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Slavery, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Alcoholism

tararising's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.75

I think Katniss might be one of the top 3 best written female characters of all time (maybe even top two). I’m so impressed with the way Suzanne Collins consistently rounds her out— Katniss has a beautiful singing voice, she loves to dance, she kisses people on the cheek to say goodbye and plays laser games with Buttercup (whose role is probably my favorite in the whole series). Fan interpretation seems to have flattened her back into the stoic rebel archetype (exactly what the Capitol did). Justice for Katniss and I hope in 15 years they decide to make some dark live action TV remake because I really want to see actual children play these characters.

It is SOO crazy that Gale and her mom lived. I 100% thought they both died but it’s so much crazier that they lived because that means Gale never got his wish to be a martyr and Katniss’ mom abandoned her again and Prim’s death is somehow worse so like Suzanne Collins was crazy for that.

 

My problems with the book:
- Pacing: I get the appeal of a trilogy but this series may have done better as a quartet because I really enjoyed the pace of the first half and then it got wonky. I also really enjoyed Boggs as a character and his relationship with Katniss so it would make sense to me to have the story beats for a split between books revolve around him.
- I would have liked one more moment with her dad at the end (some memory of him in the woods) to wrap up that arc and provide more certainty for the audience as to why she returned to District 12
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Finnick’s death: Obviously I’m okay with beloved characters dying (Prim always had to die (I sobbed)) but this was such a weirdly timed and written death that it left almost no impact, which is not what his character deserved. The fact that fans universally agree that he didn’t die is a red flag that his death wasn’t important to the story (at least the way it happened)

- That fuck ass epilogue 

Unrelated but I believe fan interpretation that Haymitch and Effie fell in love lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and War

Moderate: Torture

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

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

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

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child death

la_licia33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I really liked how this book ended the series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Child death, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Physical abuse, War, Blood, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

sea_sea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.75

Amazing end to the trilogy! It had me hooked beginning to end, I finished it in less than a day. Katniss is such an interesting character, I love how she is portrayed as human, not as this perfect protagonist. Also just they way Suzanne Collins wrote all the characters was amazing. They all had such depth. All the deaths were heartbreaking.

maybe not Alma Coins ;)

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Self harm, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Blood, Classism, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Torture, Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Gore, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

turtleycool's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcoholism, War, Emotional abuse, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder