Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

17 reviews

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

This is a book you have to really want to be into to enjoy and that wasn't me. It's intolerably long and overly descriptive yet with unmoving writing. I mean, I love some good world building but this was too much. I hope I never see the word “interlude” again. And though I did eventually like Locke enough, for the most part the characters were underdeveloped to the point I was stone faced when serious things happened to them bc I couldn't connect with them at all. But I did like the Gray King's coup. It was violently ruthless and gory and one of the few moments here where things actually happened and you know what? The Gray King had some points. Also, I don't know about yall but I found this book so moralistic at points, like shut up. But I'll give credit to Mr. Lynch's writing in one regard. The way he writes prayers is actually so heartfelt and they're kinda beautiful. And I liked that there wasn't too much cynism in regards to religion here compared to other dark fantasy books that do that to show how gritty and irreverent the characters/world is and blah blah.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Sexism

grayscale08's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Fatphobia, Excrement, Vomit, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

sporemiette's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

I'm mad i read this book so early in the year cause i honestly don't think anything i read for next 10 months will top it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Slavery, Vomit, and Trafficking

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

suncourts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, and Violence

mullemit's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

2.75

*sets down my soap box and crawls on top of it*

Why on earth would The Gray King be some random dude with a sob story, when Nazca my-father-can’t-name-me-the-heir-even-though-I-deserve-to-be-because-my-sexist-older-brothers-wouldn’t-like-it-and-whose-funeral-got-turned-into-a-rave Barsavi was right there!? Especially with all the other story threads of underestimated women from Nazcas own mother to unionizing prostitutes!

Whatever, I kept going to see if the book would manage to surprise me,  but it really didn’t. I kept thinking “This feels like the straightest dnd game in history”, and yeah it was entertaining enough, but I’m not going to read the sequels 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, and Murder

felofhe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Slavery, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic