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Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

290 reviews

harperthomson's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Homophobia, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Fatphobia

caleigh_g's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Homophobia

caroisreading's review

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I love Melissa Broder's writing so much. "Milk Fed" was a dizzying experience, being volleyed between sapphic sexcapades, mommy issues, an intense eating disorder and a complex relationship with religion. 

The biggest, most flagged trigger warning is the eating disorder content. You're punched in the face with it right away, and I saw myself in too much of it. Is it strange to say this felt refreshing, cathartic? So many of us have this experience, and in reading all its calculative detail, I cried for all of us. 

Perhaps the content that surprised me most wasn't the sex (honestly not as pearl-clutching as reviews make it out to be?), but our narrator's hope to find mothering, acceptance and comfort with an Orthodox Jewish family, and the conversation about Palestine. I won't get too spoily here, but the way she finds her voice here, an important scene. 

You'll like this is if you're into troubled and funny narrators, themes about sexuality, acceptance, faith, and don't mind the triggering and sexually graphic content.

I'm off to read "The Pisces"!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Biphobia, Sexual content, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

alexandracpedro's review

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Biphobia, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, Addiction, and Sexual content

Moderate: Outing, War, Antisemitism, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit and Self harm

catsandbeets's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Homophobia

amberjelfs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Body shaming

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Self harm, War, Suicidal thoughts, and Outing

nancyalicerose's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Body shaming

Moderate: Colonisation and Islamophobia

saramarie_reads's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Alcohol

8going80's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

The ED aspect of the book definitely made it uncomfortable to read at times as it makes you address your own relationship with food. Good book and easy to whiz through

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Minor: War

dehernandez3169's review

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

Milk Fed had me on the edge of my seat. A gripping tale of food, sex, and the challenging relationship we can have with both. 

I loved to see the growth Rachel experienced regarding her eating disorder and the blossoming relationship she formed. 

While the ending is logical and makes complete sense, I was disappointed that

Miriam and Rachel didn't work out. But being an orthodox jew, her parents where never going to be supportive of their relationship.

 

I felt it was incredibly timely for the characters to have an argument over Palestine and Israel. 

I wanted so badly for Milk Fed to be a 5 star Read, but the ending really left something to be desired for me. It's ineffable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Body shaming

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Genocide