Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

32 reviews

raspberry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia

kenzie_roonie's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

Minor: Fatphobia

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Excrement, and Trafficking

Homophobia warning is for what reads to me as the predatory gay stereotype.

mimi_jaja's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious relaxing 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia

adverb17's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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? No

4.75

"Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not."

Immersive. Baffling. Brilliant.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Gaslighting

Minor: Cursing, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Excrement, Vomit, and Kidnapping

sarah984's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-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? No

5.0

Wow. I don't even know what to say about this novel that won't spoil the experience for anyone thinking of reading it, but I really enjoyed this. The descriptions of the world are fascinating, the main character is charming and his ways of thinking are described in a way that makes them make sense, and the plot took plenty of turns.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Dementia, and Kidnapping

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

touchegiantsquid's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

It's a quiet, reflective fantasy that will probably stay with me for a long time. Being trapped in my house since March 2020, the themes and details of the story felt urgently relevant.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

The big bad is depicted as sinister and as a way to underline his perversion he is also gay. It's a homophobic trope. At the very end a parallel is drawn between a fat statue and the big bad because fatness is also a perversion to this author. It's fat hate that didn't add to the story.

blackrabbitrun's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

A book being Really Quite Good is never such a disappointment as when for the first 150 pages you see it winding up to something Excellent. I believe I may just have chronic Chekhov's gun -itis.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fatphobia and Homophobia

rieviolet's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

I think what I liked the most was Piranesi himself as a narrator, how we slowly discover the house and the story connnected to it from his point of view. 

It is a very imaginative story and certainly very unique, I was really captured by the first half and I still enjoyed the second one, but I think that as the plot progressed and we discovered the darker aspects of it, some of the initial brillance got lost, at least for me. It was still a very enjoyable read that I had trouble putting down (a good half of it I read in just one sitting) and a very well crafted story. 

I also had some personal quibbles over the treatment of certain topics (mailny the only depiction of queerness and also a quite fatphobic description at the very end of the story that really annoyed me) that dimmed my general enjoyment of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Fatphobia, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

afion's review against another edition

4.75

I loved this so so much. If you haven't read it yet, be very careful about reading reviews because one of the best things about it is how the plot unfolds and it would be a shame to have that ruined by spoilers!

When night fell, I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Minor: Fatphobia