Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

9 reviews

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death and Eating disorder

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Dysphoria, Classism, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Medical content, and Animal death

sallytumbler13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Classism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Medical content, Police brutality, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, and Violence

raynebeauskittles's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Ableism, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Medical content

dayniw's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Police brutality, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Animal death

jessicohen15's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The world building is unreal here. Cannot wait to read the next book.

Spoiler

it’s definitely heartbreaking to hear about the lesions but the depth it brings to the story is breathtaking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Bullying, Confinement, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Classism, and Death

madmantha's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

It was really interesting rereading this in 2022; many things still feel relevant today, if not more so in some cases. 

The love triangle still feels a bit forced; I’d love for them to take it in a queer or poly direction in the new series adaption. 
I got heavy “gal pals” energy between Tally and Shay in this reading; which isn’t something I remember noticing or feeling when I read this years ago. 

This is still one of my favorite books and I’m very much looking forward to continuing to share the series with my partner. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Police brutality, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Fatphobia, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcohol and Death of parent

Minor: Kidnapping, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Hate crime, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Police brutality, and Toxic friendship

zoepagereader's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed the concept of this one. But the middle bit was so slow for like 200 pages. I am glad I stuck with it though, because it got really good at there end. Also, I just thought the names of the cities were really dumb. Where do the pretties live? New Pretty Town of course! And where do the uglies live? Uglyville! Still, I am looking forward to reading the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Body shaming

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

browneyedbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying