Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

9 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Transphobia

I cannot decide if I like/dislike the gender commentary in this story because it flip flops almost as much as Sophie/Agatha/Tedros and whatever-they-have-going on. Occasionally there’s something vaguely transphobic in the narrative that’s countered three seconds later with something unintentionally deep about gender essentialism. Very fun world building but good luck sorting out how you feel about this series.

soph22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

Look, I don’t hate this book, there are things I like. Sophie is a great, complex character, who I love - and not just because we share a name, but I have some issues.
Fatphobia and fat-shaming is very strong in this book, with people being seen as more beautiful when skinny and ugly when fat (this book is aimed at middle grade, young adult right? That’s incredibly problematic!) also girls are seen as less beautiful with short hair, and the general diet culture around the cast of characters, it feels very dated.

It also features what I can only describe as Transphobia and deadnaming. I understand the plot of the book involves characters switching genders but… the way it was handled left me uncomfortable

So, overall, I will continue with the series, but only because I bought them as a set.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Murder

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, and Transphobia

jessawilson's review against another edition

I thought the series would get better with the themes but I could tell that fat phobia, diet culture, beauty culture, and misogyny were going to continue. Then I had to stop when the author thought it was okay to introduce transphobic themes with making a previous male character be changed back to a woman when princes were made evil. Fuck that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship

ieahleen's review against another edition

1.0

The book is written well, it kept me glued to the pages until the end. 

It's just full of misogyny, misandrism, homophobia, fatphobia... I am absolutely not continuing with this series, I can't stand anything in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Pedophilia

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

Minor: Confinement, Blood, Death of parent, and Abandonment

rumireads's review against another edition

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying

jaidlyn_7's review against another edition

adventurous fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Slavery

sge_ab's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia and Toxic friendship

thepaperbackqueen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia