Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

ever single death to hit me that hard, but especially Prim’s death hurt the most. I really appreciated the last chapter and epilogue of things getting better, because man that was depressing. Katniss’ depression, dissociation, and other trauma responses were, in my opinion, well written to allow readers to easily understand her headspace and reasoning.

The one thing that confused me, and honestly pissed me off, is how Katniss voted yes to one last hunger games. Like what?? Girl, the hunger games are what got you here and you’re ok with another one???? Huh????????
Edit: I’ve read some fan theories and I kinda get it now.

Everything else about the ending, I was pretty satisfied with. The only thing is that I would have liked to know is Anne’s ok. I understand why that wouldn’t have been included in the end, but I just really hoped that she would be alright eventually.

Also I’m trying to fill out some content warnings and realizing how dark this book was. Like really really dark.

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xstargirlx's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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mrcacahuetes's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.0

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dramagirl2003's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

thoughts while reading

p55: oh my goodness, i see what people meant when they said the book was darker

p147: it’s writing like this that makes you wonder whether suzanne collins secretly planned The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes all along. she strikes me as the type of writer that already has several stories lined up, but i simply waiting for exactly the right moment to release each one

p157: the deleted film scene 🙀

A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for their certainty. No one seeing them could doubt their love.
i know how that feels

p237: gale is an all-in kinda guy, he doesn’t do anything by halfs. this is how love dies, slowly, then all at once

p365: 💔💔💔💔💔

p402: gale is

telling you to shoot him

, even i know that and i’m not his best friend. you’re just subconsciously ignoring him

p406: i would love to know what political reason suzanne collins has for

killing off prim

He just asks if I feel like talking, and when I don't answer, he falls asleep in his chair. In fact, I think his visits are largely motivated by his need for a nap. The arrangement works for both of us.

p454: imagine having to deal with your kid knowing such a traumatic part of your past

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melissalivanos's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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humanitarianhippieauthor33's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious 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

3.75

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alicethemermaid11's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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lotte_on's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.5

In my opinion, this was an insane read in so, so many ways. So much happend, so much violence and trauma - damn. I‘m still not fully over this book, and I have to say that it really truly pulled me in and had an effect of constant suspense. My main problem is that yet it somewhat still doesn’t show the true violence of war, since there are a lot of scenes when Katniss is basically unconscious for a period of time and some mayor battles have been fought without her and she never really gets to experience what it felt to be a regular, largely unprotected citizen during the war, which for me, would be something extremely important for a reader to come closer to. However, this book was still SOO amazing in so, so manyyyy ways. I loved every (other) thing about it, how it genuinely shows what a governments motivations on either side of a war are, how history can so easily repeat itself, how a massive amount of people need to die whenever it does. I‘m still flabbergasted by how good an brilliant it was that I can’t even put every aspect of it into words right now, not even half of them. This was a gorgeous read and so, so, so important for future and current generations to remind them an occurrence like this can very easily become reality. Especially after Trump got elected yesterday, I think everyone in America should read this once again and remind themself who the real enemy is. Thank you, Suzanne Collins, once again, for writing something so earth shattering that it will stay in my - and hopefully a lot of peoples - head(s) forever.

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