Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

11 reviews

odette_tbdk's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Me inspiró a hacer mi propia cuenta de escritura. ¿Tengo que decir más?

Cómo con todos los de Alice, me sentí profundamente identificada con los personajes, especialmente con Frances y Aled. Yo también dependo de la validación académica y me gustan los podcasts, ¿ok?

Son personajes que te pueden llegar a frustrar, pero entiendes sus motivos, sus miedos, aspiraciones y cómo la vida adulta los confunde tanto. Ver como evolucionan y salen de sus moldes es hermoso. El final es el mejor que se le pudo haber dado.

Muchísimos puntos por tocar el tema de la demisexualidad en 2014. Alice for the win.

Definitivamente lo recomiendo (Welcome To The Night Vale, voy por ti).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Stalking, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Animal death, Body shaming, and Homophobia

Minor: Alcohol, Abandonment, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

nehanaomi's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

frances may have one of the best fictional mums ive ever seen

frances kinda dumb tho, why would she admit she's toulouse, LIE

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Stalking, Mental illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide, Confinement, Gaslighting, Animal death, and Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming and Sexual content

avagrossman's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

this_is_lee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense fast-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

4.75

Alice continues to completely blow me away. This book was dark and felt with some rather heavy topics and yet I could not bring myself to put this book down. I was drawn to each and every character and the plot/subplots were interesting and just pulled me in further and feather till suddenly I was at the end. 
I absolutely love the message and theme of this book. It’s one of Discovery, loss, and defying societal standards. 
Overall, such a spot on book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Child abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Body shaming and Bullying

nojerama's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

I have never seen myself in a character more than I have with Frances. Her and Aled's friendship is my favourite thing in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Child abuse, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Violence, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

lolajh's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

ALICE FUCKING OSEMAN. Holy shit. Each book I read of Alice’s is somehow better than the last. This book had everything: brown and other poc main characters, bisexual, lesbian, gay, aspec and pansexual characters, and all of these characters not being in there just for the rep but having vital roles in the story. Reading this book as a teenager did allow me to reflect a lot on myself, as this books portrays beautifully how teenagers interact and behave and stress about adulthood, but it also says that university isn’t the only option for having a successful and enjoyable life, which is such an incredibly important theme needed in contemporary books like these aimed towards young adults. This book’s portrayal of mental illnesses as well was perfect and relatable, whilst heartbreaking. How Alice is able to portray all these themes so perfectly I will never know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Mental illness, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Sexual content

tatianars's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

hayleyvem's review

emotional sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol

jil_m's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.75

Wow. Such a good book! I am speechless. Alice Oseman  really is the Jane Austen of Gen Z. The characters are so diverse, so powerful and so well written, there is no way you can’t love the main characters. I especially am very fond of Raine. Always supported Frances wherever she could. I think this might be one of my new favorite books. It’s so original, modern, diverse, well written and well thought out. The only thing I would like to add is the fact that we knew a lot about the concept of university with, but we didn’t really got to know a lot about the story. We basically got thrown in the middle of a fire hoping that we’d escape ourselves. A part from that, a book that will carry my heart and tears. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Body shaming, Death, Grief, Torture, and Toxic friendship

samh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Body shaming