Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy

8 reviews

ezwolf's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.0

I really wanted to love this. A fat main character who's also a superhero? And queer??? Count me in! 

Unfortunately, I just couldn't get in to it. I'm not a fan of pop culture references even in present day stories and there were just so many of them. I was also a lot more interested in the superhero aspect than the romance aspect and so much of the book was focused on the love triangle between Faith, Dakota, and Johnny. Even while acknowledging that love triangles aren't fun! I was fully skimming by the last 40% or so, but I don't even know if we got a resolution with Johnny or if Faith just started spending more time with Dakota and didn't mention Johnny again post-corn maze. 

I think this book may be a hit for someone else, just not for me :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Confinement, Fatphobia, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

1.0

I’m honestly kinda disappointed that I didn’t like this.  I just couldn’t get into it.

It was way too quick paced to the point I just didn’t care about anything that happened.  The dialogue was stiff and just overall felt like it was for a much younger audience rather than a YA book.

The friendships and side characters just kinda fell flat.  Especially when the plot twist happened in chapters 24/25.  I just honestly didn’t care at that point what happened.  Even the ending seem so rushed and I don’t understand why.

I will say the plus sized rep was nice along with some of the queer rep but that was about it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Dementia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Car accident, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Confinement, Death, Racism, Blood, Trafficking, Stalking, and Death of parent

brookey8888's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

I’m sad I didn’t enjoy this. I thought that faith was self centered and a bad friend. I also didn’t like the romance because it’s like a power imbalance even though their the same age. Also if she forgives them I can’t. As for the superhero stuff I felt like it was hardly explained or honestly really talked about. That being said I do love the fat and sexuality representation. I also appreciate the talk about dementia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

em_dill's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring slow-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

3.75

This book has wonderful fat and LGBTQ+ representation. It is very present but it isn’t the main focus of the book in the way a lot of media with LGBTQ+ characters have it (it isn’t a story about coming out). It can take a bit to get into as the action comes more towards the end of the book. I feel like some of the action is rushed and would have been better if it had been started sooner, but I still enjoyed the book. It is a pretty easy read and a great choice if you are looking for a superhero origin story with fat and LGBTQ+ rep. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Dementia, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

caelix's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

3.75

It was very cute and I liked the love corner which doesn’t happen often lmao

I just wish it wasn’t The Groove set who was responsible of that bcs I feel so bad for her to be losing her one anchor when her life is already going to shit

ALSO DONT TOUCH GRABDMA LOU LOML LEAVE HER ALONE

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Minor: Biphobia

thereaderfriend's review

adventurous funny 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, and Body shaming

I LOVED THIS. New fav fantasy book. Need more superhero books.

malloryfitz's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Racism, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Colonisation

tabear's review

funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Drug use, and Fatphobia