Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

30 reviews

kitty_may12's review

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

as the first book in the series the mystery was set up pretty well, enjoyable. morally grey main cast of characters were just loveable enough for me to root for them.    

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, and Racism

Minor: Ableism and Drug use

blume13's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racism and Lesbophobia

Minor: Vomit

violet03's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racism, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, and Toxic friendship

ameliaflint's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Guilty pleasure. I actually love this book. But it's SO RIDICULOUS. Twelve-year-old seventh graders are not going about having sex with eighteen-year-old seniors or drinking or partying. I giggle a little every time I remember Alison was like twelve when she disappeared.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Alcohol

honben's review

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I'm a big fan of the show (completely aware that it is mostly garbage) and I wanted to give the books a shot and I am shockingly pleased. This book contains only what happens in episode 1 of the show (just a heads up) and when I realised I was thrilled. It gives you much more insight on the characters, and there are major differences with the show but I actually feel like I will like the books better (specially in the romance department) and though the writing style is very simplistic it makes it much easier to read.
Already started the second one.
P.S.: there is depiction of mental health struggles and there are moments when even the narrator is fatphobic, I remember a specific line from one of the last chapters. I attribute this to the year it was published, but obviously, it is not nice to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Infidelity, Car accident, and Murder

Slut Shaming isn't on the list of trigger warnings, but there is a ton of it on this book.

livingwithghost's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

wanted to re-read this series for nostalgia and to get back into reading. a whole lot of nothing happens in this book. i enjoyed it though knowing what else happens in the series.

honestly the worst part about it is the amount of weird adult/minor relationships being played as sexy, forbidden love stories. sure they’re forbidden, but it’s because they’re weird and inappropriate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Classism

Minor: Vomit and Murder

highladymagnus's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

laurabenitez's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Stalking, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, and Sexual assault

epatulny's review

dark lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, and Eating disorder

victor_gannon's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I just want to say, this book is probably better than the show.
I did find this book alright to read, there were some moments I didn't enjoy but at least it showed that a relationship between a high school student and a teacher is NOT normal (Unlike the show which had Aria marry her groomer/teacher but anyways) 
There are parts of this book that is similar to the show and overall, I think it was an alright book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Death