Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

89 reviews

megritchey's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

4.5

The twists and discoveries throughout were very well done. Wish the ending had been expanded/fleshed out a bit more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcohol, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Abortion, Fatphobia, and Vomit

_meganno's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Self harm, Child death, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

m_egg_o's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I hate men
strong trigger warning for self harm 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Bullying, and Self harm

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Fatphobia

savyelizabeth's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Bullying, and Fatphobia

abigailgrims's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Bullying, Child death, and Abortion

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual assault, and Ableism

bneecoleh's review

dark mysterious tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, and Murder

Minor: Fatphobia

swenso12's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Alcohol, Child death, Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit

ptitirodactyle's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

a lot of skinny valorization/fat shaming + a bit of a problematic depiction of self-harm imho

I also figured out pretty much all of the twists in advance, so the book didn’t have me gasping.

it’s not a bad novel per se, but there are much better thrillers out there. I very much preferred The Paris Apartment.

I’m guessing that I was supposed to be happy with the ending, but it left me bittersweet. There is no justice at all, all the women hurt by Will are gonna continue to suffer because of what he did to them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Self harm, Violence, Bullying, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion, Blood, and Pregnancy

meaghanslibrary's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Compared to the Paris Apartment, this book had a more keeping me on my toes feel. It reminded me a lot of how big little lies the tv show starts where you know there is someone who has been hurt you don’t know who and the book flashes backwards and forwards in time across different viewpoints to give you pieces of the puzzle.

The fact that Will was Steve, the same person the younger sister used to date and got her pregnant - that was a huge twist that I didn’t see coming! The twist was also great because it explained so much of the younger sisters actions. Compared to the big reveal in the Paris Apartment that they were all a family that didn’t make me reflect so much on the characters past actions in the book as the big twist in the guest list did. Once that big reveal happened, and I think because I just read the authors other work, I realized that other parts must be connected - for example I had a eeey feeling that Hannah’s sister dated Will who spread the horrific video. Then the rest of the pieces started to click together. I didn’t fully piece that Aoife was the main killer for her brother, I still feel like there could have been more backstory with her and the connection to the island. Her slaying came and the motivations came about very abruptly. So that knocked off points for my rating. Most of my rating is bumped up from the big sister reveal. I thought that was very clever. Also the fact that the best man was supposed to be on the show that became more obvious as a secret once the sister reveal. That’s why I liked that reveal so much it gave me a sense of what was happening but still kept me on my seat to figure out who died and who the killer was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, Classism, Death, Grief, Body horror, Child death, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Violence

lottieingham's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Self harm, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Abortion, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Grief, Hate crime, Cursing, Classism, and Fatphobia