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alexandracpedro's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Biphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Outing, Alcohol, and War
Minor: Self harm and Vomit
amberjelfs's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, and War
kaitlyn_avecado's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexual content
Moderate: Outing
Minor: Genocide and Antisemitism
mushmoll's review against another edition
- 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
"Was it possible I could be my own daughter?..I wondered if the universe, in its roundness, somehow already contained my daughterness. Perhaps I'd been being held there, a daughter all along, until I woke up to it."
Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Outing, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria
ribbenkast's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
3.75
Instead we just got an overely honest internal dialogue. The weirdness comes from the main character Rachel having a severe eating disorder, mommy issues and some slightly more uncomen kinks but nothing as wild as I was let to expect. She's slowly coming to terms with the fact that not everyone lives the way she does. All of this sone through in a scene where she unhingedly eats a sundae early in the book. Which admittedly was incredibly funny.
The promised weirdness reaches its peak very early on and kind off flat lines after. This makes the book drag a bit in the middle.
The ending makes up for it though, every piece of the book comes together perfectly. I found the ending very worthwhile.
This book is also very much about being Jewish and what it means to be and to be raised (American) Jewish. I myself am not Jewish and i suspect that I lack a bit of cultural context to fully take in that part of the book.
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Outing
There zionists views being expressed by some of the characters. Whilst the text is leaning on anti-zionism I can imagine a character voicing those ideas can be pretty triggering.ashpociadlo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Incest and Colonisation
Minor: Body shaming, Homophobia, Antisemitism, Lesbophobia, Outing, and War
w0rmonastring's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
there were a lot of interesting ideas from the author but not a single one of them felt fully explored, probably because there wasn't a single 3-dimensional character to flesh them out. it felt flat and repetitive and anti-climatic.
also, my favorite quote from the entire novel turned out to just be a Yiddish proverb.
<i> "Ah! For a little love, you pay all your life." </i>
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Incest, and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, Outing, and Dysphoria
Minor: Antisemitism and Religious bigotry
lizmauz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Outing
katilein's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Outing
Moderate: Homophobia
bkhan1995's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Biphobia, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Outing