Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

56 reviews

torihope98's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Physical abuse

Minor: Vomit, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hi_saac's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Colonisation

Minor: Miscarriage and Vomit

ihamster's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Classism

georgiabritton's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, and Racism

fromlindenmere's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Classism

jlclark's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child death

aleksander_at_sea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

marie_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Child death

linguisticali's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

Good but not really for me. On enjoyment alone I'd rate it lower but I want to give it fair credit. I'm not into coming of age stories and stories where women relentlessly suffer at the hands of terrible patriarchal men (valid, important, etc, but I find it so bleak and tiring). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Eating disorder

theoreticalsiren's review

challenging dark emotional funny 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? No

4.75

This book was infuriating at times, hilarious at times, emotional, and representative of issues that have plagued my own family — and presumably many African families — for generations. The initial chapters move a little slow, but what really carried me through to the end was engaging with Nyasha and Tambudzai’s differing responses to issues that impact both of them in very similar ways. I found myself loving the fact that they were made to represent this line between “traditional” familial expectations within African households and a natural tendency to push back against identities that were imposed on us by the many colonial forces we have been exposed to for generations. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Violence