Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Spotgaai by Suzanne Collins

133 reviews

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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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Mockingjay is the third book in "The Hunger Games" series and it's my lowest rated book out of the three. 

The first two books seemed to have non stop action, and while this book had action, it takes a while to start up. The whole first third of the book is about

life at District 13

and it was a bit boring. 

When I first read this in my early 20s I was a Gale fan, I was rooting for Katniss to end up with Gale.

In the past, when she ended up with Peeta, I was disappointed.

Now that I'm in my early 30s I'm not disappointed with the epilogue, I was team Peeta this time around. 

I didn't 100% love the ending but this was still a good book, overall. Even though this was the lowest rating I've given a Hunger Games book (both the first books got 5 stars from me) I still enjoyed it. 

I'm giving this 4 stars out of 5. 

I listened to this for free on scribd 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Classism

viacrow's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Slavery, Pregnancy

orchidlilly's review against another edition

4.0

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Vomit, Kidnapping, Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

gracewiley's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Miscarriage, Slavery, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

balibasa's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The end of this trilogy :(

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

livreads16's review against another edition

4.5

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

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

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

4.0

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

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Child abuse, Genocide, Medical content, Pregnancy

punkisocks's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Torture, Pregnancy

sophie42's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Miscarriage, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy

rednasisgay's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark 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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Do not read this if you are emotionally unstable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Blood, Murder, War