Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

4 reviews

bearystarry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I love everything about the fellowship. If you’re not crying buckets of tears at the end of this book, you must be a very different sort of person to me. God… and such a beautiful, hopeful ending it is as well!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, and Stalking

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexism

judassilver's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad slow-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death, Fatphobia, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Abandonment, and Classism

johannarose's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

So, I switched over to an audiobook version when I got about 100 or so pages into the irl book version and just couldn’t get through it. 

Moving through the audio version, I still felt like it was quite a slog, especially the ending, which just… Kept… Going… 

I honestly felt sort of disappointed by this book, especially because I am quite fond of the rest of the series and enjoyed reading them quite a lot. I just found this one to be way too dense for my own taste. Maybe it’s because I ended up listening to the unabridged version, because it was the only one available at my online library app 🤷🏼 

In any case, not my favourite book in the series, and a bit of a let down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Fatphobia and Suicide

Minor: Animal death