Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

19 reviews

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Violence, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death and Eating disorder

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, and Medical content

sallytumbler13's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

dayniw's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

jessicohen15's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The world building is unreal here. Cannot wait to read the next book.

it’s definitely heartbreaking to hear about the lesions but the depth it brings to the story is breathtaking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Genocide, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

madmantha's review

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

It was really interesting rereading this in 2022; many things still feel relevant today, if not more so in some cases. 

The love triangle still feels a bit forced; I’d love for them to take it in a queer or poly direction in the new series adaption. 
I got heavy “gal pals” energy between Tally and Shay in this reading; which isn’t something I remember noticing or feeling when I read this years ago. 

This is still one of my favorite books and I’m very much looking forward to continuing to share the series with my partner. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

zoepagereader's review

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed the concept of this one. But the middle bit was so slow for like 200 pages. I am glad I stuck with it though, because it got really good at there end. Also, I just thought the names of the cities were really dumb. Where do the pretties live? New Pretty Town of course! And where do the uglies live? Uglyville! Still, I am looking forward to reading the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Bullying

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

_alyssar_'s review

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.75

I remember really enjoying this when I read it in school (many years ago now), and even now was a pretty good read. I liked the writing, and I was engaged for the first 80% or so of the book, although none of the characters really resonated, the concept is interesting and I was curious to find out what would happen. The end of the book seemed a little bit disjointed, there was some tying up of loose ends but also some conflict added to leave us on an open ended cliffhanger.  I’ll continue the series, as I think it’s a fascinating (and creepily feasible) world, and I want to know what happens next!  Hoping to connect better with the characters in the next book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Dysphoria

Minor: Animal death, Death, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

browneyedbookworm's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying