Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

6 reviews

lesemaus2303's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body horror, Torture, Drug use, Sexual assault, Violence, Physical abuse, and Addiction

ellilo's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

4.75

I read this book because it was listed in some “most disturbing books” videos. 
I hate saying i enjoyed this because it’s not a nice topic to enjoy, but i just love dark and disgusting thriller and horror books. This book had me in a chokehold the past four days, and i barely find time to read so that’s always a good thing about a book for me, fast-paced and packed with adventure so i don’t want to stop reading.

Some of the turns in the story were weird and from the beginning you already know that the guy is bad, but you don’t know about the extent of the cruelty. That was weird for me because i’m used to not knowing who the killer is, in this book it was rather the question who you can trust and what’s the truth. 

The ending made me cry, but i have to be honest and i feel really  weird saying this: 
I heard this book was SO disgusting and graphic, and of course, there were some scenes that made me a bit uncomfortable but i’ve read worse. I don’t think that it’s the description that makes it disgusting, but rather the topic. 

I still enjoyed this book! It wasn’t as cruel as i thought it would be and at the same time it was worse. But in a good way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Murder, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Death, Blood, Hate crime, Child death, Stalking, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Alcoholism, Dementia, Eating disorder, Vomit, Car accident, Body shaming, and Excrement

support_lesbian's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I know I gave this book a high score but is this book good? I dunno

I will say that the content described in this guess is very upsetting but I guess its as graphic as it needed to be based on the subject matter for the book but I really can't say for sure right now. I am quite satisfied with the conclusion this book went in as a mystery thriller novel because it like, actually commits to what makes sense and didn't back out of the story it was telling, upsetting narrative aside.

Beginning and ending chapters could have been stronger and there was definitely moments where the writing of the book made me raise my eyebrow in a skeptical way because of how unnecessary it was to me and like with all of these books it uses the scapegoat mental illness diagnosis to explain away character motivations when really they're just horrible scumbags that always leaves a bad taste.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Violence

mukunamatata's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

4.0

A bit too gruesome for me and a lot of different details to keep track of. That being said, it was captivating and got right into it with new additions being included each page, which built up into a really good story. Obvi the privileged white woman nonsense about feminism annoy me

(and the fact that claire goes out with Nolan, a grade A asshole who was torturing her after the death of her husband.

only a ✋🏻woman would think of that to be an even semi decent addition to the novel.) but I still ate it up so Ms. slaughter will get another read out of me. Interesting and sad. The gore went far however, I do not believe it added enough to the book to be so pivotal during almost every page. I did enjoy this read and I’m better for it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Blood, and Body horror

g1oielli's review against another edition

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Gore, Sexual content, Child death, Excrement, Kidnapping, Confinement, Death of parent, Rape, Trafficking, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Torture, Sexual assault, and Vomit

taylers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A good book that was hard to put down. Lots of suspense. Pretty gory and disturbing at many points. Some plot points seemed to become forgotten over time and left to hang. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, Excrement, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, and Gun violence

Moderate: Stalking, Kidnapping, Addiction, Body shaming, Car accident, Drug use, Dementia, Vomit, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Eating disorder

Graphic descriptions of rape, torture, murder, and mutilation.