Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

116 reviews

em815ily's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Cursing, Vomit, Addiction, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Gore, Rape, Blood, Sexual assault, Body horror, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

meemawreads's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

Ehhhhhh, I dunno about this one, Sweet Babies. My Storygraph will try to tell you otherwise, but "dark" and "edgy" and "transgressive" books don't often pop my corn. Irina is a late 20s British photographer, and an absolutely abhorrent human being. She's supposed to be, that's not why I didn't like the book much. Sure, it was juicy watching her be evil and blow up her life but her fatphobia and bitchiness got old as I got bored with the plot. It's not a full spoiler to say I've had enough of dark stories with unreliable narrator FMCs. All the trigger warnings and Americans, get your British slang dictionary ready! This book was more tolerable than others of the genre, so I'll give it a 2.5 tater-ratin'. 🥔🥔🍠/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Sexual assault

Moderate: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

applesodaperson's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Dang yeah this is a tik tok book that lived up to the hype. This book is also a prime example of how to write and deeply flawed and pretty unlikeable main character, but still make them somehow lovable and fun to read about. It actually reminded me a lot of American Psycho, because they both have very unreliable narrators, and it’s kind of ambiguous whether they did certain things.

Spoiler

Like its kind of ambiguous whether they actually killed anyone. And also they both try to tell people about their crimes and no one takes them seriously.

Fr though this story was so interesting, and was kind of like watching a train wreck happen and you can’t look away. Also, flo was actually my favorite character. 
Read from the Provo library.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Drug use

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Fatphobia

laura_et's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Fatphobia

dariarp's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Body horror, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Chronic illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, and Blood

mjbooknerd's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Gore, Rape, Eating disorder, Ableism, Sexual content, Racism, Transphobia, and Fatphobia

woweewhoa's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.5

I really enjoyed this book! I'm personally a big fan of stories about terrible people constantly stumbling against one another, and that what this book is. Irina is a complicated person, but she is also an Awful person and the first chapter of this book does a very very good job at situating it and making it clear. It is a very uncomfortable read though, and I would definitely take a look at the content warnings before picking this book up. 

Spoiler

Also, and this might be a bit pejorative but I genuinely think it's well executed and a very good take on the ideas and how their adapted to suit this story, but it's like if the movie American Psycho was about a lower middle class English queer woman kink artist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Drug use, Drug abuse, Violence, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, and Self harm

Minor: Animal death and Antisemitism

06_daisy's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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

3.75

What did i just read!!! Irina is almost the definition of the unreliable narrator and she is so unlikeable! However, i couldn't stop reading!! It felt disgusting and uncomfortable to read and i feel like i need to have a shower after reading this, but i think the way Clark wrote it was perfect. Irina was so manipulative and self destructive but i couldnt help kind of feeling interested by her character! She’s definitely not someone id like to meet in real life though!! I really liked the focus on photography and the artistic careers shown and the struggles faced!! Overall i really dont know how i feel about the book because i hated irina so much but i enjoyed the book so much haha!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Drug use, Sexual content, Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Eating disorder, and Rape

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Body shaming, and Pedophilia

Minor: Toxic friendship and Violence

gothicteletubby's review against another edition

Hated the main character, she was fatphobic, treated her "friend" so cruelly for no reason, and took erotic photos of a 16 yo and just didn't give two shits. I don't care about her or her stupid photos.

Also, this book is so goddamn british, normally I could just ignore it and move on, but the writing reminds you every two pages.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Fatphobia

brookeklebe's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Fatphobia, and Self harm

Moderate: Vomit