Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

5 reviews

swimfish2005's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Violence, War, Slavery, Fatphobia, Murder, and Cursing

axolotlhappy's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Main character who just witnessed his whole town being murdered and burned to the ground: 😢

Everyone in this book: Don’t be such a girl! 🙄

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Slavery

Minor: Addiction, Classism, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

immensekassing's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Body shaming, Rape, and Sexual content

literaryliaisons's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

2.5

The casual misogyny and unnecessary bodily catalogues of the women in the story made this book hard to get through. I love the magic system and worldbuilding but I won't be continuing the series as I've been told the sexism continues throughout all of the books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Sexism

saramg's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.0

There was so much fat shaming in this book. So very much. Also every scene had to be packed with action. If a guy is walking down the stairs, Brent Weeks had to make him almost fall over and die. That is; the action was often meaningless. The entire last quarter of the book was one big battle that I wasn’t totes clear on why they were fighting. Not the worst book, not the best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Minor: Confinement and Misogyny