Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Spotgaai by Suzanne Collins

338 reviews

lermaline's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

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I’m as impressed now then when I read it when it came out. I couldn’t put it down and would now need a few days of rest, ty. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Torture, Medical content

lee_6398's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood, War

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts

emfass's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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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I really do like this book (though I like the first two better), and Tatiana Maslany was an incredible narrator. However, this final book in the trilogy is just relentless darkness and trauma and it was really hard to take on this read through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical trauma

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Excrement, Death of parent, Pregnancy

froukjemelenhorst's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous 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: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence

Moderate: Vomit

cdt96's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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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A great end to the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

marisabenn's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A nice way to wrap up the series (minus the epilogue, which I hated), but this is still my least favorite book in the series. As usual, Katniss is running around as bland as ever angry at the world. Some heartbreaking deaths and a shocking moment I never saw coming, but once again Finnick and Johanna carry this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage

katy_leigh's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death

Moderate: Mental illness

archaicgambit's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Overall I love this series but I did feel this book was weakest. I love a lot of the choices but I wasn't sold on some character decisions, as well as how the worldbuilding felt by the end of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual assault

lit_elina's review against another edition

4.75

emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder

rayne_1906's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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 - I find this book extremely powerful. When I was younger I read it simply as a slightly slow action novel, but now it feels entirely different. This book shows the struggle of a girl thrust into the midst of a war, being treated as nothing more than a glorified puppet, and how she deals (or doesn't) with her new role. The last few chapters I find absolutely heart-breaking. However, the epilogue feels like it falls flat, and I can't help but feel it is a borrowed ending from Harry Potter - I feel like the epilogue slightly takes away from the final chapter, which feels like a perfect epilogue in itself. On the other hand, this book as a whole is a very emotional, action-packed finale to the trilogy and the rebellion Katniss started with a single spark.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Pregnancy