Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

5 reviews

lydiayearick's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

lilybear3's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Body shaming

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

ashylibrarian's review against another edition

Made it to page 31. This was a book I was assigned for a class. I did not get around to reading it for the week and did not have an interest in continuing it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Addiction, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

rileyreadsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Grief, and Sexism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Dementia, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

allzen_nochill's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

We stan a fat protagonist who gets to stay fat. Gabi's voice is quintessentially teenage girl, which is great in many ways & grating in others (man, do I not miss high school at all). The only thing about diary-style books is that sometimes we don't get as rich of a backdrop as we do with other narrative styles and this is definitely a case here. We spend a lot of time in Gabi's head - admittedly a great place - but not enough in her world. The book is good, but it's that one little quality that makes me think this probably won't be on my obsessive re-reading list.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Death

Moderate: Body shaming, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Fatphobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Rape and Bullying