Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

45 reviews

allison55's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Rereading this is fun, but it’s way more stressful than I remembered. The plot unfolds in a believable way, but it’s crazy how long it takes Tally to confess. The naivety theme is very strong, which is interesting to look back on from an older age demographic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Dysphoria

ryendnae'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria

Minor: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Fatphobia and Classism

Minor: Medical content

meaghankmc's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

Dystopian fiction still hits. This book was solid and from what I can remember, the series only gets better.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, and Medical content

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Violence, and Death of parent

annikthegaycat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

swamprat410's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, and Classism

llorona's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This was a favorite of mine when I was in middle school and the reread left me pretty captivated. Interesting take on beauty and society and intriguing villains and heroes.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

dmrains's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

Rereading this as an adult with my high school students, I noticed a lot of tropes I've come to really dislike among YA novels

"special girl" Tally instead of writing Shay as a more important character

fridging Shay by having her have the surgery against her will really did her dirty

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Abandonment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: Racism, Torture, Blood, Car accident, and Alcohol

My students were really upset that

Tally & Shay didn't ride off into the sunset as a cute lesbian couple

comefromaway's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

If 30 year old me loved this book, I can’t imagine how much 15 year old me would have adored it!
Really interesting concept that took a minute to get into but once I was there I flew through this.
Only thing I didn’t love is that I there isn’t an ‘end’, it just seems to flow straight into the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Dysphoria

Minor: Eating disorder

rissa_roo_pa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I read this series in HS and now a decade later am re-reading. I still really enjoyed this storyline, but it did feel a little adolescent and slow at first. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Medical trauma

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, and Eating disorder