Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Kosogłos by Suzanne Collins

50 reviews

haley49's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This was a heartbreaking end to the series but despite all the loss Katniss has a home and a support system. There is no immediate danger to her or her remaining loved ones; and that’s all she ever wanted. I’m going to go cry now

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, War, Child death, Death, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Minor: Vomit, Self harm, Trafficking, and Pregnancy

averagemark's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

Minor: Pregnancy

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I love the rest of the 2012 – 2016 dystopian books including Divergent, Twilight, The Maze Runner and the Mortal Instruments. I wish I had read these books during the hype of my childhood but I did enjoy this series overall as a young adult, but I felt like this book in particular was missing something extra for a final book of the series.  

Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But she’s still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid out plans – everyone except Katniss. And yet she must play the most vital part in the final battle. Katniss must carry on being the Mockingjay – the symbol of rebellion – no matter what it costs her. She is trying to protect everyone she loves and take down the guy who created all the pain. 

This book was well written, and I loved the fact of the exploration of mental health especially with Katniss’s nightmares and Peeta’s flashbacks. This book is not a lovey-dovey read, it’s a gritty slow read showing the effects of a riot and revolution and seeing it from both sides of the villain and the victims. It was showing the reflection of cruelty, slavery and the horrors of war - I liked that. However, there was a lot more that could have been done to make this book five stars.  

I wanted more action within the books, as the war was taking place we didn’t see much of it. I get that we see it from the victim’s point of view, but I wanted to see it more from the general point of view. I don’t really like love triangles within storylines however being that this was released within the time period of 2012-2016 and all book series mentioned above does have a love triangle and I probably would have loved it back then but now as a young adult, I could couldn’t stand it. Gale just leaving because he thought he killed Prim and that was all he had going from him annoyed me, I wanted to punch him in the face for that comment. I would have loved to seen more at the end and the healing process for Katniss and Peeta. I feel like it was just collected and moved on especially in the Epilogue when it was to do with her struggle of whether she wanted children or not yet it seemed really forced upon. The deaths within this book were just written off rather than a dramatic death scene which I would have preferred. It took me a while to realize Prim was dead and that Finnick was dead. I don’t think Prim needed to be killed either. Katniss’s mum just leaving her after everything she’s been through also annoyed the crap out of me. 
 

I loved the Hunger Games and Catching Fire and I wanted this book to be as good as those two and it was okay. I just expected more with it being the final book of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Torture, Slavery, War, Alcoholism, Blood, Addiction, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

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.

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

dqhvr's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Classism, Drug use, Murder, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Blood, Child death, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Death, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Self harm

Minor: Animal death

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

livreads16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Still good… all these years later. I’m still impressed by the writing and the story. The way Katniss

kills Coin just moves me in very specific way that few other things do.

I think this series is complex and challenging as a YA novel and it should be taught in schools. Not that we need more white stories taught in school but if we’re gonna teach white people books make it be this one. At the end of the audio book Suzanne Collins talks about how she came up with the idea for the hunger games while flipping back and fourth between reality TV and coverage of the Iraq war. And that is really interesting. She also tells young people to consider what the implications are that we have some people in the world who take their next meal for granted while others are scrounging to get by. And you know what Suzanne? I think about that a lot. And I get angry every time I think about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Slavery, Alcoholism, Blood, Confinement, Gun violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, War, Animal death, Drug use, Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage

robinskye28's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

2.0

Really struggled to finish this. I was a huge fan of the first two in the series so I thought this was going to be good but I was wrong. Stupidly slow pace in the beginning but in the last 80ish pages everything started going so fast I couldn't keep up. Nothing was explained clearly enough, characters were dropping dead like flies and I had to watch the film to actually understand the ending! I still don't know who half of the characters are, I finished the book and was glad it was over with, took me three months though. Wouldn't recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Drug use, Gun violence, Torture, Self harm, Genocide, Medical content, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Vomit, Death, War, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Police brutality, Confinement, Animal death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Eating disorder

So. Much. Death.

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Body horror, Classism, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

Minor: Genocide, Medical content, Child abuse, and Pregnancy