Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Spotgaai by Suzanne Collins

337 reviews

literaturesoup's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

a_wandering_thinker's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

catsbreadbikes's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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, Injury/Injury detail

paloverdepages's review against another edition

5.0

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

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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, Injury/Injury detail

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

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

samanthaeumir's review against another edition

4.5

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

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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, War

hjb_128's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

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

Moderate: Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, Suicide attempt

saliwali's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use

r1vana's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child death

la_licia33's review against another edition

4.75

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

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I really liked how this book ended the series 

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Content Warnings

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

sea_sea's review against another edition

4.75

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

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