Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

102 reviews

riverestyx's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Blood, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, and Abortion

carlaa_aa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Child death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Ableism, Rape, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

carolynthelibrarian's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body shaming, Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Violence, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

karly_ackley's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Rape and Blood

sai_like_sigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Torture, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Torture, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma

ect625's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Weird. Weird, weird, weird.

The concept of the plot is interesting but the execution was really confusing. It would have been better for me if the narrator explained what was going on instead of me stumbling along. There was also an unnecessary plot twist that changed the perspective on everything. If the same murder mystery story was told in a more traditional way, then I probably would have enjoyed it more. Can't wait to talk about it in my book club!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Addiction, Homophobia, and Rape

frenchpants's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Great concept, but poor execution—ending really ruined it for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, and Classism

magmabadger's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Grief

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

brittaanson's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I wanted to love this book, and the beginning really sucked me in with the mystery. The structure is ambitious and intriguing, but by the end, I was confused and unsatisfied. Partly due to the nature of the plot, there wasn’t any deep character development, and as the truth of what was going on was revealed, I disliked the story more and more. The ending has so many twists that didn’t feel completely earned, and by that point I didn’t care about any of the characters. The rules, ethics, and motivations of those driving the story remain ill-defined to me. I didn’t enjoy the violence and aggressive fat phobia in the book. However, I will concede that the cleverness of the overall concept may be enough for someone else to find more satisfaction in this read than I did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Rape and Stalking

em_1920's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

2.5

As mystery books go, this one starts out really intriguing but then for much of it you’re just kind of absorbing the truth as the narrator discovers it. There was nothing that hinted at some of the mysteries and would let you figure it out yourself to some extent. As you read there are no “aha!” moments. More like, “oh, okay’s.” Also the main character is fatphobic. 

This is just the “White Bear” episode of Black Mirror set in the Clue mansion.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia