Reviews tagging 'Outing'

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

25 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

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

kaitlyn_avecado's review

medium-paced

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

2.5

Not for me, but it was a short read so I finished it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Outing

Minor: Antisemitism and Genocide

mushmoll's review

emotional funny inspiring sad 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? Yes

5.0

Quote:
"Was it possible I could be my own daughter?..I wondered if the universe, in its roundness, somehow already contained my daughterness. Perhaps I'd been being held there, a daughter all along, until I woke up to it."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Outing, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Biphobia, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry

ribbenkast's review

funny reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.75

The book cover, the blurb on the back and some of these reviews prepared me for a really weird gross and unhinged book. I was fully prepared for some type of breast milk feederism stuff or something. None of this came through. The book was enjoyable nonetheless but this was a severe case of mismanagement expectations.

Instead we just got an overely honest internal dialogue. The weirdness comes from the main character Rachel having a severe eating disorder, mommy issues and some slightly more uncomen kinks but nothing as wild as I was let to expect. She's slowly coming to terms with the fact that not everyone lives the way she does. All of this sone through in a scene where she unhingedly eats a sundae early in the book. Which admittedly was incredibly funny.

The promised weirdness reaches its peak very early on and kind off flat lines after. This makes the book drag a bit in the middle. 

The ending makes up for it though, every piece of the book comes together perfectly. I found the ending very worthwhile.

This book is also very much about being Jewish and what it means to be and to be raised (American) Jewish. I myself am not Jewish and i suspect that I lack a bit of cultural context to fully take in that part of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Fatphobia, and Xenophobia

There zionists views being expressed by some of the characters. Whilst the text is leaning on anti-zionism I can imagine a character voicing those ideas can be pretty triggering.

ashpociadlo's review

emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Colonisation and Incest

Minor: Body shaming, War, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Antisemitism, and Outing

w0rmonastring's review

fast-paced

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

2.0

i went into this knowing that i wasn't the target audience for this novel but still came out at the end of this book feeling like i had been through something extremely off-putting. it's a psychosexual obsessive and heavy-handed story with just an uncomfortable level of descriptive Freudian fantasization. 

there were a lot of interesting ideas from the author but not a single one of them felt fully explored, probably because there wasn't a single 3-dimensional character to flesh them out. it felt flat and repetitive and anti-climatic.

also, my favorite quote from the entire novel turned out to just be a Yiddish proverb.

<i> "Ah! For a little love, you pay all your life." </i>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Incest, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Dysphoria, Homophobia, Outing, and Body shaming

Minor: Antisemitism and Religious bigotry

lizmauz's review

adventurous funny lighthearted reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Body shaming, Outing, Homophobia, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

katilein's review

challenging dark sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Outing, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

Moderate: Homophobia

bkhan1995's review

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

I was expecting the nature of the book and the things it at times deals with, such as eating disorders and mommy issues that this would be a serious read. I found myself laughing out loud at times and genuinely tearing up, feeling seen by Rachel's feelings and the genuine love and vulnerability she feels. Even thought it wasn't a <spoilers> happy ending where the girl gets the girl in the end, I found it hopeful that she didn't backslide or relapse into her old ways. I found it inspiring, and humbling, for her to learn the lessons she did. The prose, as funny as it is, was at times poetic and lovely to read. I finished the entire book in one sitting, would definitely reccomend!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, and Outing