Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Spotgaai by Suzanne Collins

670 reviews

tayler_marie_brooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

paigeinabook's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail

biab00's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Police brutality, Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Slavery

itsme_kayy's review against another edition

5.0

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

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This book shattered my heart then put it back together agian. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars. That's all I have to say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, Alcohol

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Death of parent

barnacle's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This series should be revisited by us who read it as kids. I cannot believe the new truths and unfathomable horrors uncovered by reading it again 13 years later. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, War

ilaronicly's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, War

Moderate: Slavery, Murder

saskiajva's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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: Yes

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Reading this series growing up, I really hated Mockingjay and thought it ruined the whole series. As an adult, knowing who dies and where the story goes, having experienced trauma of my own, i was able to appreciate it for how masterful it is. She describes trauma and PTSD so incredibly accurately, the types of decisions that are made and the person Katniss becomes show so many nuanced and incredibly profound experiences. Honestly, i kind of hated it a bit because of how real the trauma felt. But it’s also what makes this book incredible. This is a series you can reread 100 times and always find new meaning and understanding in.

Tatiana Maslaney is an INCREDIBLE narrator

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

toy_masterpiece's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional tense fast-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: Yes

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⭐️🎧Audiobook Reader🎧⭐️

What a way to end a series, my goodness. In this finale, you are acutely aware of how the characters are irreparably affected by trauma. Trauma that I don't think is accurately described as PTSD because there is no time to be post-traumatized, when the war is still ongoing.

You also follow them through their healing processes (I love the details with Finnick's knots being adopted by the others and Katniss' mantra). In this book, we get a succinct and effective happy ending in the epilogue, but it's not nearly enough for how upset I am😭 Here I come fanfiction! lol

The sheer number of losses of named characters is I think meant to reflect the overall losses that took place in the whole of Panem 'cause damn, they were dropping like flies.

Collins' signature pacing shines once again as there is not a dull moment anywhere.

Weaving the narrative into Katniss' flashbacks making them relevant to the story as a way to gauge Katniss' current mental state,

*chef's kiss*, masterfully done. It all makes sense now that she was a seasoned TV writer before coming up with this series evident through the 3-Part arc and careful handling of the subplots.

Catherine McCormick shines again as the audiobook voice, though I feel like in some places, the direction lacked as I think the wrong voices were used only a couple times. Otherwise, ex. cell. ent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, War

pianoplayer279's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A great ending to an amazing series. Age 13+

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, War

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts