Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Lei che divenne il sole by Shelley Parker-Chan

74 reviews

lanid's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

marabdelmageed's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Slavery, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

nicnevin's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

Honestly stunning prose

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Abandonment, Dysphoria, War, and Classism

Moderate: Deadnaming, Physical abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

readwithria's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense

• 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

3.0

She Who Became the Sun was a slow, steady journey from nothing to greatness. Here's the problem with that: greatness as a desire doesn't really lead to a strong plot.

Okay, so here's the thing, character stories are not my jam. Slow pacing is not my favorite. Stories baked in religion are my least favorite thing in the world. She Who Became the Sun is all of those things. That makes it a book that is obviously not aimed at me as its primary audience of choice. None of those are things that make the book objectively bad, they're just things I don't like.

What I did find interesting was the exploration of gender, and Ma. Ma is great, she deserves the world, and she's too good for Zhu.

All in all, not my cup of tea. If I read the sequel it will be either for book club or because I've heard it's better than the first book. 3 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Slavery, Suicide, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

aellwy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring 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

3.75

I was initially very excited about the premise of this book and hooked by the beautiful writing at the beginning. How we meet and come to know the desires of our main character, Zhu, is a masterclass. 

My main issue with the book is the middle. The beginning and end are deftly composed and tug at the reader's humanity. However, there was a point in the middle that it began to feel like a chore to read. I am not sure if it was a me issue or an issue with the storytelling. So please, give this book a shot. The payout at the end was so very worth it. I am glad I listened to a dear friend and stuck with it.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Slavery, and Death of parent

julesxyz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

this book had me hooked from the first page, it’s now my favorite istg this book is liquid gold to my eyes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

samugranjo's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The focus of this book is desire, this desire obtains different shapes but usually there's a pursue of power involved. The author wrote about humans relationship with desire incredibly.
The characters are lovable at times but with most of them you are gonna feel annoyed too, feel like they have went too far. You both understand them and want to stop them.
The way the author writes about gender is outstanding, I was surprised by how much I related to this book as a genderqueer person. There's also some representation in the ace spectrum that I think was done well considering how little space it had.
Overall really recommend this read, and have to end this review by praising the writing in this novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Genocide, Slavery, Torture, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Vomit, and Death of parent

mafii's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Misogyny, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Slavery, and Dysphoria

Minor: Excrement

caitlinbutcher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I’m honestly speechless. This was one of the most elaborate, sweeping, and epic books I have ever read. 
I was hoping for a little bit more fantasy elements, but with how amazing this book was I honestly didn’t mind at all. 
This book has it all: politics, complex characters, character growth, sapphic romance, mystery, inspiration, beautiful action sequences, and plot twists. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing and Sexual violence