Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

10 reviews

apersonfromflorida's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Child abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Fatphobia

Minor: Death of parent, Death, and Grief

anainthemargins's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Confinement

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Physical abuse

cassiedjohnson's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Confinement, Vomit, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

gabi_tron's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Moderate: Child abuse, Abandonment, Confinement, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

ksuazo94's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder, Bullying, Confinement, and Abandonment

Minor: Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Grief

eloiseandromeda's review

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Child abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug use

anna_0001's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Confinement, and Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Antisemitism

missprint's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Homophobia

Moderate: Fatphobia

alas_aly's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

 The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls has a great title. I didn't love the book. As an example of the subjectivity of art, it didn't do much for me. Let me first talk about what worked. I think that the writing was good. The characters felt fully realized. The premise was interesting. The relationships between the characters felt authentic based on how they were described in the story. 
For the things that didn't work for me. I didn't relate to the story. I don't think of relatability as a requirement for a good book. I am looking for the characters in the book to feel authentic even if I am not like them. I want to be able to understand them. Their motivations didn't make sense to me. We spend time learning about the sisters' issues and about their pasts. There isn't as much time spent showing how their latter connects to the former. I almost feel like the story would have been more compelling to me if it had been written from Althea's daughters' perspectives. I guess I wanted there to be more hunger in this book. The characters didn't seem to want anything in particular. Or we meet them after their desires have already impacted their lives. When I think of hunger, I think of yearning and emptiness. I didn't get either of those things from this book. Maybe if I had read it at another time, it would have had a different impact. This was a middle of the road book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Body shaming, and Confinement

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Vomit

ambersbooks's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This hit all the right buttons for me - a story about family, sisters, mothers & daughters. Not an easy read, but very worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Eating disorder

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit