Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Spotgaai by Suzanne Collins

337 reviews

lucyford's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I mostly enjoyed this book… until the last hundred pages or so, which was painful to get through and not even very enjoyable just because it’s so depressing… but otherwise, it wasn’t bad! I really liked all the politics of it and how complex all the characters were. Be warned before you read it, it’s not “fun” except for like 2 scenes maybe, but plot-wise I think it was a great end to the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation

Moderate: Self harm, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

kh108_'s review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark 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: Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Torture

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol

njthk's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual violence, Trafficking

mablesyrup's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness

lavend3r_cactus's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous 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: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage, Toxic friendship

relative_fiction's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional sad

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War

bella_01's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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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Another highly emotional book, which lead me to tears multiple times. Once I got roughly halfway, I wanted to stop reading. I knew from that point forward the book would become  depressing. 

Suzanne Collins is a brilliant author. No character in the series is unflawed, making the experience feel even more real. I felt my heart being ripped out multiple times . For me, the fall in rating is due to sections of confusing writing within the book. For the majority of this book and the others in this series, I was able to picture what was going on. Unfortunately, I found some of the chapters in the Capitol confusing. I re-read a few to gain a better understanding, but was mostly unable to picture what Collins was trying to convey through the text. 

Overall, I enjoyed reading this book, and look forward to recommending the series to lots of people!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Torture

Minor: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury

corvingreene's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-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: Complicated

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The thrilling conclusion to the Hunger Games trilogy, and possibly my favorite of the series. The depiction of PTSD is even better in this volume than in the second book. I didn't see the ending coming at all, and it was nice to be surprised.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Medical trauma, War

tiana_king's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark reflective 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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The love triangle continued to be annoying but otherwise I liked the story. It reminded me a lot of ATLA in the way it addressed what lines should be crossed when handling enemies. The epilogue rubs me the wrong way because it sounds like Katnis was coerced/worn down into having children. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Torture, Kidnapping

Minor: Miscarriage