Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

4 reviews

prairieraven's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad 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

3.25

Wish this book came with reader warnings for trauma responses (which start to happen part way through the book) starts out a bit fun, but as time goes on the story becomes wildly unhinged, and switches from amusing to beyond heartbreaking. 

Not sure of this story affected me more because I'm a parent of children/some now adults, or because I have my own traumas and mental health issues. The main characters are all flawed like real people and make the best and worst decisions like we all do. 

I read this all in one sitting, started at 11pm and finished at 2 am. The storyline hooks start early with this one and pull all the way through. Heartbreaking all the way through to the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

franklola's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.25

You will cry and cry and cry and cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

blaesgreen's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

In the vein of Eleanor Oliphant and Bernadette, Grace Adams is a touching & sometimes hilarious portrait of a woman on the brink of collapse who pushes back. The story takes place over one day with many flashbacks that really flesh out the characters. I loved how this book used  perimenopause in juxtaposition with puberty - ow life in the middle of our lives breaks us open—and apart—and then open again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Eating disorder

charnewb's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Eating disorder