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Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

15 reviews

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

faenth's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Gaslighting

honeycow's review

challenging 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

4.0

If you have ever had an ED it might be very difficult to get through, there's a lot of calorie counting and weight obsession-but it is done in a really raw and authentic way, if you have never had disordered thoughts this could be an insight into that world. The pacing was a little rushed in the end but the conclusion was still good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

Minor: Incest

la_bue's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Suicidal thoughts, Incest, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

soumya_singhal's review

dark informative reflective fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

Moderate: Gaslighting, Bullying, Homophobia, and Body shaming

carolinestes's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-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

4.0

sometimes its hard for me to get into books when the main character isn’t immediately relatable. milk fed is about rachel, a girl whose whole life has been surrounded around her body and weight. rachel has an obsessive eating disorder that at times was difficult to read, but her journey to find herself, re-find her Jewish faith, become more comfortable with her sexuality, and put up healthy boundaries between herself and her mother was beautiful. although it was tough to get into at first, i sped through the last 3/4 of the book and really enjoyed it! this book has spice, insightfulness, and humor, what more could you ask for?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Homophobia

zoiejanelle's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

i will never recover from this book. it was like looking into a mirror. a dirty, 7/11 in the middle of no where, warped, shattered, perverted mirror that hangs upside down, but still a mirror just the same. 
i’ve never read a character like rachel, so raw and broken and… stupid. an asshole raised by a narcissist, a girl with no shame but all the shame in the world. she broke my heart, made me laugh, make me cry, and made me nauseous all at once. 
this book is a look down the barrel of the gun that is “mothers and daughters.” this book captures exactly how it feels to be a complete and utter train wreck who can trace all of their issues back to their mother. not for the feeble minded or weak stomached. 
highly recommend for the (mentally and emotionally stable/healed) girlies with mommy issues, problems with food or a history with eating disorders, girls questioning their sexuality, the ex-christians and lapsed Jews, and anyone who thinks hallucinating a wise rabbi and Chinese food might be the answer to all of their problems. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Body shaming, Alcohol, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: War, Antisemitism, Vomit, and Xenophobia

lavenderpagess's review

dark funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book is certainly not everyone's cup of tea, but it was mine. Trigger warning central so I would suggest doing your research prior to reading if you are worried about reading certain topics. Very intriguing book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

anapthine's review

emotional funny 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

3.0

Suggest reading content warnings before reading book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Homophobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Outing, Alcohol, Biphobia, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Blood, Body horror, and Child abuse

Would not recommend to someone who had/has an eating disorder. Binge eating and calorie counting is a recurring theme and is described in detail.

sophiejohn's review

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

I already wasn't going to read the pisces, but I'm definitely staying away from melissa broder's books after this. the writing style was unsettling, but not in a cool subversive way just in a way that sometimes made me want a shower. she created several avenues that she never circled back on, leaving a lot of loose ends that seemed distracted. she also tried to drop in some *relevant insight* about Palestine but it seemed so forced. the mom was such a driving force for the Big Reason behind the story and plot, but the author made her completely fade into the background - the opposite of the way you'd expect someone like she described her to be, overbearing and manipulative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Self harm, Addiction, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Dysphoria

rigid and explicit calorie counting