Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Pew by Catherine Lacey

3 reviews

biobeetle's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Animal death, and Death

Minor: Dementia and Murder

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I was SO confused throughout but I still loved this book? 😂

Identity politics and religious constraints in a very bizarre yet exciting book ✨ Really really loved Pew (they’re about the only person I loved in the story, which is why I said the characters were lovable 😂).
This whole debate of ‘but what gender and race are they’ was so infuriating, of course!

4 out of 5 stars for me. I am excited to read more reviews of it on here! My book loving friend who I was with at the time was very intrigued by the premise 🥹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Abandonment, and Religious bigotry

bellari's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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? No

5.0

Southern gothic, mysterious and thought-provoking

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content