Reviews

Zonas húmedas by Charlotte Roche

zellreads's review against another edition

1.0

This didn't feel progressive or feminist, it felt gross and self-centered and disrespectful. I'm deeply disappointed that my eyes had to read these words. Thanks, I hate it.

_maeike's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Disgusting, incredibly funny, destigmatizing -- I love the book!
0.5 star deducted because it sometimes makes fun of other body types, suggesting they are wrong or something similar. I don't like that, and it doesn't really fit with the book's message.

I listened to the German audiobook, which was narrated by the author herself. Her voice fits Helen perfectly.

cynicalflask's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

2.5

amymck99's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

x0pherl's review against another edition

2.0

So after hearing that women were passing out during readings of this book, I thought to myself "surely I should read this." It is, indeed, fairly gross, a small bit of fun, and (thankfully) fairly short.
Not for the faint of heart or the prudish, surely.

polyzacharide's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is both disgusting and entertaining in its graphic descriptions of bodily fluids.

lindsaypopolizio's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

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

3.0

babsaway14's review against another edition

1.0

So, is hygiene meant to replace sex in "shock and awe" literature? All that can be written about getting it on has, apparently, been explored and therefore the literary critical world is in a twitter about a girl with a DIY tampon fetish and dirty fingernails? Is that what I'm supposed to take from the controversy surrounding this stultifyingly dull novel?

Jesus, this book was boring. I found myself scanning entire pages and grasping hold of only one or two sentences and it mattered not at all, as neither author nor editor nor publisher felt a plot was important so long as the main character provided detailed paragraphs on scab/snot eating.

In fact, as far as I could decipher, the plot was that the main character was bored. And trust me - the one thing the author does well in this story is boredom, pure, mindless, why-am-I-reading-this boredom.

jbrys's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

asussexlady's review against another edition

1.0

Jeez, what a boring book. The sex/festish stuff didn't bother me, but there was just nothing of any interest, or narrative, or plot. What a waste of a few hours.