Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

8 reviews

trin's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

1.5

A book about food that is unappetizing; a book about how rich people are terrible that is somehow unconvincing, even though that seems like the biggest layup imaginable. This was not for me. I found the prose pretentious -- very capital-L Literary in an unearned way -- and the characters thin and unbelievable. The protagonist is not terribly competent and makes insane, out-of-left-field decisions, as dictated by the achingly slow plot. I appreciate some of what Zhang was trying to say, especially about the experience of being an Asian woman, but it was buried under what felt like an extended version of that scene from Succession where Tom and Greg eat ortolan, except less entertaining, or effectively satire. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Such a strange story! Oddly (appropriately) enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

juliusclearance's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This is one of those books that is incredible but I’ll never read again. I cried at the end. It was so compelling. I couldn’t read it for more than fifteen minutes at a time or I knew it would ruin me. It did anyway. I cried again when I talked about it in bookclub. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Blood

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

christienana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Violence, Medical content, Abandonment, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

wormgirl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Sexual assault, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Classism

alyxinthestars's review against another edition

reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Body shaming

Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism, Car accident, and Classism

rmperezpadilla's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Classism

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Cancer and Vomit

Deals frequently with not only

animal>/spoiler> death but also

extinction of various species.

dominika_benmichael's review against another edition

dark hopeful tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Eating disorder, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol