Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

249 reviews

rayaufebay's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

readingizbiz's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

The writing was easy to follow and almost read like fanfictions to me (not in a bad way. nothing has made me cry like some fanfics have). The beginning I was like “ugh why was this recommended I’m done with booktok” but toward the second half I liked more. It is an interesting way to talk about old Hollywood. The switch from current to Evelyn in the past was a bit annoying to follow at times on my ebook version unsure about physical copies. It wasn’t bad. Wasn’t the best thing ever. I enjoyed myself. That’s all that matters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

chaoticlawful26's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

5.0

A beautiful and tragic story about the LGBTQIA+ experience from the 50's to the modern day through the lens of a daughter of Cuban immigrants trying to make it big in Hollywood. It's an amazing story that I thoroughly enjoyed, and I will definitely read it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Abortion, and Lesbophobia

williamabookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Blood

infjkiki's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Terminal illness, Grief, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Car accident

Minor: Miscarriage and Abortion

town_scar's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Racism, Death of parent, and Outing

Minor: Drug use, Vomit, and Pregnancy

kirsten1999's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Infidelity, and Car accident

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Blood

captainclark's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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

5.0

fantastic book covering all the nuances and beauty of unconventional love and relationships and marriages, the deep complexities of humanity and emotions, its just so beautiful. these people are fantastic and horrible and i love them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Alcohol

Minor: Fatphobia, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

kedalrymple's review against another edition

I was very excited to read this book as it seemed to tick a lot of the categories of what I like. Even the start seemed to be more engaging than a lot of books. However, it didn’t take long for the language to start to feel uncomfortable, specifically when discussing race and body image. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that this is an author who is writing popular fiction with the goal of it being picked up by Hollywood. It seems odd that the author would choose to develop main characters of different races, gender identities, and body types than her own, and do so little work to actually research what it is like for people who identify with those traits. Sadly it came across as stereotypical, heteronormative, and  sexist. Clearly this author is trying to fill her books with the types of characters that Hollywood is desperately seeking to  “include” but is skipping the hard work necessary to check her own priorities and privileges beforehand even attempting to write about a character from a different culture than her own. How disappointing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Gaslighting

vr_alyssa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Immersive read! Once I like a book, I'm generally not great at putting it down. But this was different. It wasn't an 'I need to finish it asap and so I secretly skip sentences/paragraphs'. I just wanted to be in the story, so I would take it out of my bag, even when I only had 2 minutes. Or I'd pick up the book when my partner needed to go to the toilet while we were watching a movie, just so I could get in a page or two.

As a reader, you're basically both reading a fictional biography about a famous movie star as well as the interviews leading up to the creation of said biography. Which means the reader knows certain things are coming (I mean, you know it by the title too, she clearly had seven husband, so you know the first marriage doesn't last). But there are a few other things the reader learns to expect early on in the story. I found those hard to predict, despite knowing that they were coming. Furthermore, there wasn't necessarily a need to figure it out (which I usually have with books, such as Fourth Wing recently), I could just let it happen as it happened. And, of course, when revealed, the information caught me completely off guard, to the point of mumbling 'No no no no no' aloud for a while.

I am not entirely sure how I feel about the way it portray the industry. Yes, Evelyn had agency (at least somewhat), but she's still being used and limited. Differently than men. The book leaves it to the reader to form an opinion on it and fill in the gaps. Sometimes I worried that the book made it seem like she had more agency than she actually did, but it worked for me.

It was a very interesting and lovely reading experience, to say the least. Best way I can describe it, is that it's human.

Life lessons by Evelyn Hugo:

• "Be wary of men with something to prove." (76)
• "... praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even." (83)
• "No one is going to give you anything if you don't ask for it." (95)
• "You can desire someone especially when you don't like him." (111)
• "It is OK to grovel for something you really want." (191).
• And so on

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Abortion, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Alcohol