Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

3 reviews

candace's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Classism

Minor: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Dementia, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation

tashtasher's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Racism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War

Minor: Animal death, Eating disorder, Abortion, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism

sarah984's review against another edition

2.0

emotional informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I liked the fairy tale style and the way the recipes were woven into the narrative. Unfortunately, the narrative itself wasn't very good. The main character falls in love with a man with zero good qualities and lusts after him for years because they're forbidden to marry. He treats both her and his wife so badly and they're both so into him. There are two interesting characters and they're both hardly in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping