Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

17 reviews

s3ag0at's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

tardati's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Eating disorder

cararowen's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Homophobia, Stalking, Outing, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

matilde66's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Outing

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Self harm, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, and Alcohol

prairieraven's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

taylorsevalia's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Pregnancy, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

zoran's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, and Suicide

Minor: Homophobia and Outing

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

Not bad - very dramatic but overall whatever. Something to read to pass the time. If you like PLL or Gossip Girl, I think you’d like this bc of its theme.

Hated the way the characters talked/interacted, but maybe I’m just removed from what high schoolers sound like now? Which would explain why I hated the dialogue so much.

Overall not bad if you want mindless and overly white/cishet, but not something you can really engage with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, and Outing

klara42's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide, and Outing

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Mass/school shootings

abbiewhite's review against another edition

mysterious tense 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? No

3.75

where do I start,
this book was predictable in some ways, but in other ways it wasnt. the writing can be cringe at times, but in aim to capture dialogue and thoughts of teens it was almost true to picture. 
the pace differed from medium to fast pace, which is perfect for me 
i loved each of the main characters a lot but also in different way
i thought the the 4 way narrative was going to be a hard read and would interrupt the flow and pace, but McManus made it an approachable and easy read 
the character development is second to none, and I simply loved it
the ending is *chefs kiss* just how i like an ending to be 

I loved Addy’s independence, Cooper’s LGBTQ storyline was unexpected and loved Kris for joining the dots which is what the reader was doing, Bronwyn is me and I love her, Nate is typical bad boy, trauma from childhood, but you still fall in love with him. I think it’s clever how You shy away from sympathising with characters like Nate but in the end it switches and you no longer sympathise with Simon but you sympathise with Nate

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Eating disorder