Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Grotesk by Natsuo Kirino

13 reviews

sspaghettiboness's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

First of all, this book is beautifully written. I don’t read female authors as often as I’d like, but I felt such a deep kinship with this book as it explored things like female rivalry, ageing, and a culture which commodifies sex and youth. 

The diary sections are, by far, the most fun and interesting to read. Kirino does such a fantastic job of maintaining her high level writing while also giving each character a distinctiveness it’s impossible to doubt who is who. 

Overall it was a great read, there are some slow patches which I found less than engaging, but this is a book worth sticking with! Very thought provoking about some heavy subject matter while unfolding at a true crime pace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fatphobia, Incest, Excrement, and Murder

ceciliabereadin's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book needed to be 100 pages shorter but other than that, I found it so interesting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Classism

katiieecat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, and Death of parent