Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Gespräche mit Freunden by Sally Rooney

18 reviews

ank3's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Classism, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Grief, Self harm, Body shaming, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Gore, Pregnancy, and Medical content

Minor: Infertility

hayleythepaige's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Blood, Classism, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

taylorsevalia's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Self harm

Moderate: Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Police brutality, Racism, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

seforana's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Cursing, Sexual content, Blood, Chronic illness, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Infertility

magicshop's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Medical content, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Abandonment

helenadominick's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Alcohol

reneeandreea's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

An insane attention to detail in otherwise mundane, day-to-day life. Makes you feel like one of the characters; Frances is both relatable and flawed. You couldn’t really love any character and you couldn’t really hate any character either, which I think is a lot like real life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Self harm, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Emotional abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Infertility, Drug use, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Classism, and Toxic friendship

sage_honey'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
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Everyone has been recommending this book, saying you can really relate to many characters as a woman in this society, but I didn’t feel it…

the characters were strangely likeable even though I didn’t agree with many of their actions or opinions.

At first I thought the book was really interesting. But in the end there were too many small things I didn’t like, especially about the main character. 
I understand that characters don’t need to be loveable for book to be good. 
But I felt like some things were left unexplained, not natural to the person, and some traits felt like they were forcibly pushed into a character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, and Self harm

hjhannah_4's review against another edition

DBF at 230 pages. I really tried you guys. Not even Taylor Swift could help get me through this book. Unfortunately it is not possible to give a zero star rating. Seriously, save yourself the headache, the time, and the braincells.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Medical content, and Fatphobia

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

The ending leaves a lot to be desired, especially with the character of Bobbi, but it is still an incredible novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Chronic illness, Medical content, Sexual content, Cursing, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Outing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Blood, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Bullying, and Sexism

There are explicit details about endometriosis and I found Bobbi to be an awful friend who exploits Frances, but does not take accountability for her own shitty actions.