Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

24 reviews

ceciliemadsen's review against another edition

dark emotional

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Death of parent, and Grief

emmaopaline's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, and 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

carriepond's review against another edition

challenging 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? No

4.0

There are many heavy topics in Hungry Ghost: the way that the toxic beauty standards and fatphobic views embraced by society at large and the people who love teens can whittle away at their self-regard and confidence, disordered eating, and grief. There were some really sad moments and some really poignant moments. I am glad that this graphic novel exists for teens.

I also think everyone who has a child in their life should engage in some self-reflection on how our own views and baggage can impact our children, even when we think we are coming from a place of care and love. And keep the self-reflection going by reading Virginia Sole-Smith's fantastic book, Fat Talk.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Vomit, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Death of parent

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

clarabooksit's review

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

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

A very real story, not just about disordered eating but I really resonated with the nuances of Val’s relationship with her mother and how it is explained. The illustrations and color scheme were also so beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent and Vomit

alisazhup's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

I loved it! I think there would have been more depth to the themes if the story was longer. Also, the transitions in between scenes sometimes seemed a little choppy. Nevertheless, a great and quick read :)

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Content Warnings

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