Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Duck Feet by Ely Percy

6 reviews

anxiousbookclub's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Classism, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Racism, and Homophobia

fionag's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

Really amazing look at life growing up in working class Scotland. I grew up around the same time as this was written in and I felt immediately transported back to my old classrooms. This tale of Kirsty and her friends touches on everything from teenage pregnancy, racism, classism, sexuality and knife crime and violence. An absolute slice of life book which truly does reflect the good and the bad within Scotland. The dialect is amazing and you can really feel Kirsty shine through the pages as we follow her growing up and trying to find herself. Really brilliant and one I will definitely reread. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Bullying

gillianca's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

I absolutely loved this, never laughed out loud so much at a book. It really took me right back to high school and I felt like I was at Renfrew Grammar. I really enjoyed that we heard everything from Kirsty’s perspective almost like a diary, which really helped the character development for a lot of the side characters. So many important topics are covered delicately but the book overall remains lighthearted.

The only things I didn’t love were that Kirsty is a bit too woke, for lack of a better word, to be believable for a teenager in Paisley in the mid noughties. And the part where

Spoiler

dead Wully is showing her around an alternate timeline was a bit weird, but it worked with the rest of the book being in first person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

lauradvb's review

challenging emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Eating disorder and Murder

solasuaine's review

emotional funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Murder, Grief, and Eating disorder

sadie26w's review

emotional funny lighthearted sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Death

Moderate: Homophobia, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, and Drug use

Minor: Racism, Ableism, and Religious bigotry