Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Normal People by Sally Rooney, Rini Nurul Badariah

678 reviews

anjali28's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, and Classism

alice_ca_glisse's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Classism

inpalemoonlight's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

just finished rereading it and I think it got me a lot more the second time. i liked the style of writing, the vibe and emotions that the sentence-structure transmitted. i felt that sometimes it was scratching on themes that felt rather forced or not really necessary because they weren‘t developed in depth

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, and Violence

c_rh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicide

avabudavari's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Eating disorder, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, and Colonisation

lauraloveslemons's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Blood, Car accident, and Death of parent

zoelowe's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

I cannot lie, I hated this book. I was excited to read it because I had heard such great things, but I just didn’t connect with it. I felt like the characters were not deep or relatable, they were just products of what happened to them. Maybe that was the point but I did not like how it was executed. Things just didn’t land for me, and it felt like one of those books that’s thinks it’s revolutionary, but it really just wasn’t.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Violence

mia_stew's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

maddiechristine15's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I know I’m late to the party, but wow. I was immediately sucked into this book and became as enmeshed with these characters as they are with one another. Sally Rooney built a world in which the people are extremely flawed, yes, but so very real. I know Rooney has said she writes through a Marxist lens, and that is clear; her exploration of social class and capitalism through these characters adds a whole other layer of depth and complexity. I am just like other girls !!! 5 stars!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Minor: Eating disorder and Death of parent

kaelene's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.25

i actually really liked this book. it’s the fastest i have read a book and i found it freakishly similar to my own life. that made it really hard to read at times but it definitely provoked a lot of reflection and realizations for me, and i thought the issues that it incited were actually really interesting to consider. i journaled a decent amount bc of and about it! i definitely want to read it again, tho i don’t think i’ll be as captivated as i was the first time. initially, you almost want to root for them, feeling sympathetic for them in different moments or struggles. everyone promotes this book as a story about situationships???? but i feel like the story is not about situationships at all. it’s a story about two people who have grown up together and have a complicated, unhealthy relationship and attachment to each other. it feels much deeper and more meaningful than a situationship. that’s so dumb. i think the book also exhibits the experience of mental illness in such a genuine and natural way while highlighting the ways that mental illness can heighten and intensify a relationship when we indulge in our own flaws and in eachothers. its also such a prime example of how miscommunication works and ruins peoples lives. by the end of the book, i was so sick of their inability to be mature and strong that i didn’t care whether or not they ended up together. i felt that the people they grew to be were pathetic. which i should probably reflect on. i felt both depressed and comforted by the story. depressed at the idea that people are hurt or flawed enough to act like this, to suffer for nothing. but comforted at the idea that there are people out there doing worse than me. marianne annoys me in a lot of ways because of how i disagree with her but also in how we are similar too. i definitely think i’m going to read this again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Grief