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Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

39 reviews

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

tatiana_nikolayevna's review

challenging dark funny relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Eating disorder and Vomit

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

elderwoodreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

5.0

This was my first book by Broder and I will certainly be reading more. I did have a heads up this would be weird going in which I think helped, but I think the weird was used well and was necessary.

I personally liked the ending, however, I get why others didn't. I like endings where there is some realism about how much people are able/willing to change for each other, but I definitely get that it's frustrating

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Alcohol, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Biphobia, Blood, Excrement, Genocide, Vomit, War, and Xenophobia

maxattack's review

dark funny reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.25

This was honestly a really fun story, but I can’t say I particularly liked any of the characters. They’re all train wrecks. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

Minor: Biphobia, Classism, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, and Violence

The main “love interest” is a mere fetishization of a “type” of human being

ankiaisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Vomit and Homophobia

pebbletown's review

dark funny medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit

jolikemarch's review

dark reflective slow-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

4.0

This book was incredibly good, but also just as upsetting to read as someone recovering from an eating disorder. I’m far enough that I am okay, but please be warned

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Content Warnings

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

madi22w's review

challenging dark funny sad medium-paced

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

2.5

like. i just with that both the eating disorder section of this book and the gay sex section of this book were better. i feel like they fell flat both in character progression and just like plot-line-logic. like how did she learn how to mother herself so quickly? trust me, your mommy issues aren’t just magically solved after 50 days of no communication. and, furthermore, i thought the way broder attempted to cover this up by being like the world will hurt you again and again but you will come back to me. was just like. okay.
as an ex-roman-catholic, i always appreciate insight into the daily lives of people of other strong/intense religions (such as judaism)  so i liked being able to see that here.
miriam also felt, to me, though, a character that we never really learned about? like i never realllyyy understood what her connection was with her family that made her choose them so often, and so whenever she did it just felt out of the blue to me.
at times i felt that the humor of the book was cheesy or bad, but other times i found it genuinely funny.
overall, weird book. kind of triggering, and then erotic. i wouldn’t read it again. definitely skip like the first 50 pages if you’ve ever had any sort of eating disorder if you don’t want to be triggered. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Addiction, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Eating disorder

rooney_shay's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

A little too erotic for my tastes, but definitely an eye-opener. Following the main characters changing relationship with food, her own body, religion and other characters was riveting. I read this book in a day! To this who don’t like sex or sexual desire openly stated in a book, this is not the one for you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Religious bigotry, Eating disorder, Body horror, Biphobia, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit, War, Violence, and Alcohol

readingwithgoose's review

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Child abuse

Moderate: Body shaming and Homophobia

Minor: Vomit