Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Marked by Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

13 reviews

ohlookshinee's review against another edition

1.0

Reread this series because I remembered enjoying it as a teen and had always wanted to go back and finish it. When something's stuck in my head like that I tend to see it through even if it's extremely disappointing as this was. I don't know how I missed all the misogyny, racism, homophobia, ableism (criminal overuse of the R slur), tokenization of Native culture, etc etc in high school but that's essentially all the books contain. They got slightly better when they started shifting to POVs outside of the insufferable MC but that wasn't enough to save it. After the first few books I found great reviews online that helped me get through them. I also started reading them as fast as I could to get it over with. I'll be glad to never read a word of them again lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Moderate: Fatphobia

blubimnotafish's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Could have done without the occasional fatphobic comments and the, I guess sexist? anti-sexuality?, comments like 'nasty stripper'. But then, this book is from a while ago, so who knows if that would've been included if it had been written now. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexism

pawprinted's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

5.0

heads up that this book has the r-slur in it and some fatphobia. my rating is about the rest of the book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Fatphobia

_rowantree_'s review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

sar_bear's review against another edition

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

I don't think I've ever read a book/series this bad. I could not finish the series despite being given most of the books as a gift. The writing in general is just horrible (good news is that it makes others feel so much better about their own writing), and the main character is so unlikeable it feels purposeful. I could talk about the problematic things with the series but I don't think I have enough time in my day to cover everything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Cultural appropriation, and Toxic friendship

nautikal's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexism, Sexual assault, Blood, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Drug use, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

abbyleinbach's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.0

My friends asked me to read this with them and I will never forgive them

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Alcohol

msradiosilence's review against another edition

I’m 95 pages in, and the last book I DNF’d was Allegiant 9 years ago, but I fucking CANNOT with this book.

First of all, way to whitewash your main “native” character. Very SMeyer of you. How is it that the other POC character (Shaunee, a black woman) is allowed to have ‘mocha’/‘chocolate’ skin but Zoey goes from ‘tanned’ to ‘pale white’ hm? Sounds very…cultural appropriative, no?

For a book that has a gay character and a black character in the main cast, this book was *checks notes* fatphobic, transphobic, racist, and slut shame-y all in the first 8 pages! And it only gets worse!! This is why I fucking DNFed, because there is much better shit out there.

The writing was annoying as fuck, Zoey was super judgmental and annoying as fuck, all the other characters were shallow and annoying as fuck…did I mention how annoyed I was with this book?

I read it back in middle school (and bc of the blow job scene in the beginning was subsequently banned from reading it) but as an adult I’ve been going through a nostalgia period and this was one of the books I wanted to revisit. Honestly, thanks Mom and Dad for sparing me from the rest of this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

atrkula's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death

Minor: Body shaming

donxmore's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment