Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Mleko i głód by Melissa Broder

299 reviews

poppylovesredwineandbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

It's such an emotionally complex and at times disturbing that reads will and is enjoyable in its wrongness

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Homophobia

mushmoll's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring 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

5.0

Quote:
"Was it possible I could be my own daughter?..I wondered if the universe, in its roundness, somehow already contained my daughterness. Perhaps I'd been being held there, a daughter all along, until I woke up to it."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Outing, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Biphobia, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry

thisbookrox's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

3.0

this book was crazy & obsessive & chaotic. i enjoyed it but also cringed at moments.

i was glad that it seemed that rachel recovered from her ED

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

tmrollinsreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Fatphobia, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Homophobia

malag's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Homophobia

fabbeylous104's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny 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

4.0

I loved it, but I kept hearing reviews about how wild this book was aaaaaand I couldn't see it? Fantastic character development though with some entertaining internal monologues, but nothing too crazy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Dysphoria, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Homophobia

greenthunder13's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Homophobia

ribbenkast's review against another edition

funny reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.75

The book cover, the blurb on the back and some of these reviews prepared me for a really weird gross and unhinged book. I was fully prepared for some type of breast milk feederism stuff or something. None of this came through. The book was enjoyable nonetheless but this was a severe case of mismanagement expectations.

Instead we just got an overely honest internal dialogue. The weirdness comes from the main character Rachel having a severe eating disorder, mommy issues and some slightly more uncomen kinks but nothing as wild as I was let to expect. She's slowly coming to terms with the fact that not everyone lives the way she does. All of this sone through in a scene where she unhingedly eats a sundae early in the book. Which admittedly was incredibly funny.

The promised weirdness reaches its peak very early on and kind off flat lines after. This makes the book drag a bit in the middle. 

The ending makes up for it though, every piece of the book comes together perfectly. I found the ending very worthwhile.

This book is also very much about being Jewish and what it means to be and to be raised (American) Jewish. I myself am not Jewish and i suspect that I lack a bit of cultural context to fully take in that part of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Fatphobia, and Xenophobia

There zionists views being expressed by some of the characters. Whilst the text is leaning on anti-zionism I can imagine a character voicing those ideas can be pretty triggering.

jadekeely_'s review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

viclofaro's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Sexual content