Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

32 reviews

nomi_schraepen's review

dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, Blood, Eating disorder, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, Infertility, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body shaming, and Body horror

valilo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Abandonment, Child death, Ableism, Body shaming, Sexual content, Death, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Cancer, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Excrement, Fatphobia, Grief, Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship

unusualsnowunicorn's review

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Self harm

Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility

liliannkuu's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

A story with fleshed-out, raw and flawed characters, whose melancholic and trauma-ridden perspective on the world carries the book. A love story that has more pain and loneliness than love in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Eating disorder

lorenagargom's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Eating disorder, Body shaming, Drug use, and Infertility

nesblablabla's review against another edition

emotional sad

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Self harm

t555z's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

the ending had holes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Self harm

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, and Bullying

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Cursing, and Toxic relationship

aarony_22's review

reflective medium-paced

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

1.75

I am so irritated
Now what exactly was the message/theme of this book? If this is supposed to be a romance novel, it failed. I don't feel like Mattia and Alice have a connection at all and their first moments together seem like stupid insta love. If this is just supposed to be about the tragedy of unjustifiable events and emotions that are all over the place, it was okay. 

The writing style is very fluid and the pages really flew by. It was really good at times. Very good metaphors and symbolics were used. 

I didn't quite get what is happening and nothing is really truly of relevance but the first two chapters. The events are all over the place and not explained well enough for me. Mattia and Alice are portrayed as the "odd humans out" (prime numbers in this case). That mindset makes it particularly interesting to see them having a bad social life. 

In conclusion, to me, it's a failed attempt at writing about unusual people having trouble being so unusual as if nothing bad ever happens to "normal" people. 

Also the portraying of consent in this book???? Very questionable??? 

It also needs a trigger warning for eating disorders, really. It comes out of nowhere. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Self harm

Moderate: Bullying and Sexual harassment

cycleshark's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

lisa00's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Grief