Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

2 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

sakisreads's review

3.5

adventurous challenging emotional slow-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: Complicated

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I’m so puzzled by this book 🤣 

A friend recommended it a while back and I finally picked up a copy at the library. 

I kept reading it because I could not wrap my head around Tita’s undying love for Pedro.

Maybe I don’t know love like that yet, but if a man I loved married my sister I think I’d try to move on 🙊

I could hardly put it down though, it was very engaging. The recipes also sounded delicious 🤤

3.5 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨ Content warnings included below!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent