Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

31 reviews

idonoteatchairs's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Homophobia

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Islamophobia and Antisemitism

billie_visible's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Homophobia

Minor: Addiction

ms_ery's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

s4ily's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

alissareads_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

The book started slow, then picked up a bit. The eating disorder mindset was represented well. I liked the " supernatural " elements at first, but towards the end it got a bit ridiculous. Not really sure how to feel about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

fromundertheashtree's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Eating disorder

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

this book was the wisest but also the silliest thing i've ever read.
the quotes and reflections? chef's kiss. the eating disorder representation? amazing. the weird supernatural ability stuff? so. weird. it was so irritating. 
this book says some of the wisest lines that i've ever heard, and in the next paragraph the protagonist is controlling pigs and seeing the future. what is this??
i constantly switched between adoring this book and wanting to dnf it because of just how silly it was. this book combined one of the most real topics ever (eating disorders and depression) with the most fantastical supernatural garbage there is and it threw me off because it wasn't done quite well enough. 
i could've loved this book, but the story was simply... something else and i couldn't handle it. but maybe someone else can.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcohol, Violence, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal death

Minor: Domestic abuse and Outing

nincoompoop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Classism, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, and Bullying

hayat_'s review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

ellnorrr's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I have serious mixed feelings on this book. On one hand, I felt like the internal depiction of an eating disorder was very accurate, especially with the obsession with rules. On the other hand, Im so sick of ED books where the eating disorder becomes supernatural, even if starvation induced psychosis is somewhat common. This book also got me wondering, is accuracy always a good thing? Yes, a key part of many peoples anorexia is to create and follow a strict set of rules, but sharing the protags rules seemed somewhat unnecessary and could be harmful as someone very well might try to follow them.
Anyway, I was going to give this a 4/5 but the ending really sucked. so 3/5 it is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Addiction, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Gore, Medical content, Violence, and Stalking