Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

101 reviews

theebster's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

yappuccino's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

A fun, creepy read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Bugs, teeth

magikorbert's review against another edition

dark funny informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

altogether good and quite sweet actually; but i'll be honest this kinda dragged for me. not even a slow burn really, mostly just nothing and then EVERYTHING BAM. newfound love for vultures activated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Grief and Alcohol

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Murder

kaneebli's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, and Blood

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

peachani's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

mlkshks's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

bronbaewr's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Genuinely fantastic book, can't recommend it enough. As someone with an awesome mom and a shitty grandmother, the plot rlly hit home. It did unfortunately (via a throwaway line) introduce to me the existence of eyebrow mites, but that's my one and only gripe (my life was better before I knew.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Self harm, and Death of parent

Minor: Racism and Dementia

wardenred's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

A great cruel power, doing almost nothing. Like a dormant volcano. All she did was grow roses.

This didn’t quite beat The Twisted Ones as far as my favorite horror books by T. Kingfisher go, but it’s coming as a very close second! I just absolutely dig the entire thing: the plot, the escalation of tension and horror, the sense of setting, the characters, the vibes. There wasn’t a single dull moment for me here. Just. The way the narrative unfolds? How bad it gets toward the end? How then it gets so much worse and more complex? Chef’s kiss.

I knew rather little about the novel going in, besides the basics like “haunted house horror with southern gothic vibes and family stuff.“ The cover, alongside the first couple of pages, led me to think this would be, at least in some part, bird horror. Without going into spoilery detail, that conclusion was debunked in a really fun way. I mean, the vultures are definitely around a lot and very important for the story! It’s just that there are much scarier things around. Like roses and ladybugs. (Fun fact: I love roses and ladybugs. Both scream safety and sunlight to me. It’s truly a testament to Kingfisher’s talent that she managed to make me fear both for the duration of reading this.)

My favorite part about the book was the relationship between the MC and her mother. Apparently, I’m really interested in exploring dynamics between independent adults and their parents, and I’m not getting enough of it. Edie—the mom—is my favorite character here, in fact. I really admire how she’s done her best to stop the cycle of abuse in her family and be a good parent to her kids. Yes, she wasn’t able shield them from her own mother completely, but she stood up for them and made sure they knew when things weren’t okay rather than normalizing those things. She really did her best to heal that generational trauma, and I admire her so much for that.

All in all, I loved this for the atmosphere, the twists, the humanity of the characters, and the great writing. Definitely goes on my “best of 2024“ list.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Dementia

growintogardens's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

This is not one to read/listen to before sleeping, found that out the hard way lol. It's a little scary. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism and Dementia

kylieqrada's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious 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? No

4.0

Yup yup yup her writing works for me. Also I related to this too much and I loved reading from my first fat horror protagonist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Blood

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, and Racism

Minor: Dementia, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury