Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

94 reviews

kscheffrahn's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Racial slurs

aidanaschons's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Xenophobia

martereadsbooks's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

dylanlouise's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

3.25

Really wanted to like this, it's been in YA romance circles for 8 years and has a cute aesthetic but I just didn't. Elanor's backstory felt inauthentic and the bullying plot-line seemed forced. Also, her chapters were racist as hell?? For no reason?? Rowell would need to apologize and rewrite before I could imagine recommending this to anyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Racism

wwnter's review against another edition

funny lighthearted sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, and Racism

shaunag's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, and Fatphobia

_maygen's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming and Emotional abuse

duchess16's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

THE ENDING OMGGGGGG who let the author do this :( come on the book was so incredibly amazing and it wasn't another teen novel that would never actually happen in real life. minus some of the '80s stuff, it could happen today. the ending frustrated me a little because they could've kept their love going, and park tried really hard. you could almost feel his heart breaking with each and every letter with no reply. Its not like the books where one character dies and then no one can do anything about it, eleanor could have tried.... ahh it was still so good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Sexual content, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Physical abuse

theghostdog's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.0

In my personal opinion it just was overall bad. I gave it a two star rating because the book can get you invested in the plot even if it it’s not the best, however, that doesn’t mean it was a good read. If you’re a hopeless romantic pre-teen that finds delight in any trope no matter how problematic it may be, then yes, I would recommend it to you, but other than that, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. It’s pretty fast-paced and I feel like that was one of the key flaws because despite my liking for a fast pace, if not handled well, it could end up being terrible, which is what this book ended up being, everything felt oddly rushed and the ending fell flat because of it. The book tried to be diverse and tried to be inclusive yet it did nothing but enforce stereotypes of two different races, so if you’re looking for a diverse book that does good representation, this is not it. The book is a hit or miss to the extreme, it’s very straightforward when it comes to the audience it’s targeting (and it isn’t a necessarily bad thing), for me it just missed and by a long shot 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Bullying

Minor: Fatphobia, Rape, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, and Body shaming

A little explanation to the content warnings: Rape: there was a brief mention of rape by one of the main characters, it was absolutely unnecessary and it wasn’t anything important towards the plot, but it was just briefly said as a joke. One of the main characters is in an abusive and toxic household, hence the other content warnings Racial slurs: there’s a brief mention of racial slurs, one was about the main character explaining the use of the “n-word” in his school, the other I believe was an Asian slur

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse