Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Affamata by Melissa Broder

91 reviews

hhhannahhh's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Moderate: Biphobia, Islamophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Outing, and War

adoto's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

It took me a while to figure out how I feel about this book. I don't know if I loved the writing -- maybe it was Melissa Broder's audiobook narration, which was pretty bad. As weird as this book is and as deplorable the main character is, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. A lot of people say the sex scenes are badly written but I kinda liked them idk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

woodiefrog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

3.75

This year is sapphic romance for me or what ↘️
A personal breeze but might be difficult if you have experience with eating disorders and/or extreme anxiety over body image. Essentially, this is a story about the anticlimactic nature of healing from your parental trauma as a young adult. 
Sex is treated as something realistic, visceral, unglamorous yet so very delectable to read. 
Fun use of food-related metaphors all around. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Child abuse and Toxic relationship

tttiff_27's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and War

texosaurusrex's review against another edition

Massive Trigger warning for anyone that has ever had even the smallest of issues with food/ body image / or a maternal figure. Yikes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Toxic relationship

kharv294's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

aboyer's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Sexual content

Reference to Israel/Palestine conflict, Zionism

abnormal_shadow's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective tense slow-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

5.0

A bisexual Jewish woman with disordered eating habits, mommy issues and a nicotine addiction becomes obsessed with a fat Jewish woman, her confidence and her functional family, shenanigans ensue

but their relationship doesn't work out

/. This book was so jarring and unexpected. It felt real in a way like I knew Rachel (the main character) and though she has the personality of someone I would hate Irl, being in her head, in her mind, watching her justify her thoughts and actions. It was so surreal. I relate to her in a way I utterly despise but love also.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

bootrat's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Very strange read, just a full book of food and sex - largely focused on desire. Very graphic eating disorder content, and also graphic sexual content. Avoid if either of those things is a problem, because the whole book is about them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

crgrace's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Toxic relationship