Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

27 reviews

auraylee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder

Moderate: Death of parent

bunix's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad fast-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

4.0

This graphic novel was much different from what I expected. I got rather emotional in the end as I somewhat relate to her story. The novel was a book that showed me that sometimes the flaws of parents aren’t intentional and that sometimes it can just be their form of showing us love. Even through all of this I really enjoyed the story and like how they made the story about her without using romance/crush to be a big part.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, and Body shaming

Minor: Death of parent

cinderellasbookshelf's review against another edition

challenging sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit and Grief

summyrenea's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-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

4.5

This is a beautiful graphic novel about complicated relationships with food and mothers with daughters. I can’t wait to add it to my library. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Death of parent, and Vomit

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

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

4.0

 Hungry Ghosts is a short but impactful graphic novel in which Valerie has to cope with her father’s death and her mother’s body shaming and fat phobia. This is informed by the author’s own experiences with disordered eating . I appreciated the hopeful ending made possible by Valerie seeking professional help. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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

This was such an important story. It follows a girl struggling with an eating disorder and dealing with generational trauma and body shaming, it shows the emotions she goes through during the eating disorder and other issues she faces. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Bullying

Her father is killed in a plane crash, and while the details aren’t graphic, it hints that the damage was bad, and shows the crashed plane

rvareader's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Vomit, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

sisters26's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

2.75

This YA graphic novel deals with some heavy topics, namely eating disorders and the death of a parent. While I can’t personally speak to the ED rep, I do think this book might be helpful to a young person dealing with that. Where this book lost me though is in how dismissed the grief is. The toxic relationship the mc has with her mother eclipses her own grief, which would’ve been fine and even realistic if that had been addressed but instead the death of her father felt like a bump in the road instead of the traumatic event it should’ve been. It made me angry. Anyway, the art is great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit

dazzle_spider_reader_1212's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Grief, Gaslighting, and Death