Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

7 reviews

lipie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Eating disorder

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Bullying

Minor: Violence, Grief, and Vomit

nincoompoop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Classism, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, and Bullying

ellnorrr's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

3.0

I have serious mixed feelings on this book. On one hand, I felt like the internal depiction of an eating disorder was very accurate, especially with the obsession with rules. On the other hand, Im so sick of ED books where the eating disorder becomes supernatural, even if starvation induced psychosis is somewhat common. This book also got me wondering, is accuracy always a good thing? Yes, a key part of many peoples anorexia is to create and follow a strict set of rules, but sharing the protags rules seemed somewhat unnecessary and could be harmful as someone very well might try to follow them.
Anyway, I was going to give this a 4/5 but the ending really sucked. so 3/5 it is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Addiction, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Gore, Medical content, Violence, and Stalking

baytamax's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Homophobia, Self harm, Blood, Addiction, Animal death, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse

pusianadusia's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

My fav book lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Vomit, Homophobia, and Mental illness

coyodie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Animal death, Classism, and Islamophobia

Minor: Abandonment

liviarubin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Domestic abuse