Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

77 reviews

farah_2007's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death, Addiction, Violence, Alcoholism, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Infertility, Torture, Sexism, and Vomit

ansfaiv's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

i couldn’t put this book down! it was super good and had a crazy plot twist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Moderate: Vomit, Blood, Child death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Death

Minor: Drug use, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Body shaming

jen1804's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Found the first half of this book quite slow, didn’t find myself wanting to pick it up and read on my lunch breaks/in the mornings before work like I do with other books. So much so that I was considering not continuing and it’s only because I had quite a few people tell me to keep going that I persevered.
I feel that it really picks up in the second half of this book and got that love for reading feeling back again. There’s a lot more tense and mysterious action that begins to happen and more Easter eggs dropped for the reader to pick up on and question who’s the most suspicious which I liked.
I find reading books about alcoholism quite tiresome is what I’ve realised.
Satisfactory ending? Yes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Blood, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Child death

anapa's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Murder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, and Fatphobia

minimalistbibliophile's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

riversonq's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

how many times does it say the word "fat"?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Fatphobia and Body shaming

reikifeet's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Infidelity

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Pregnancy

innastholiel's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Vomit

joaniinha14's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Descrição numa palavra: gaslight 
Extras: homens são manipuladores, mentirosos e nojentos.
Spoiler alert but not spoiler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Violence

bookishandlegal's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Perfectly fun, perfectly fine thriller. It kept me interested but I wasn’t totally hooked to where I couldn’t put it down. I guessed the end well before it happened, but seeing everything fall into place and explained was nice. 

Lots of fat jokes and descriptions of the MC/ex wife being fat and so obviously useless and sad and not worthy of love/attention, etc etc. When are we going to stop doing that? Seriously, someone’s weight doesn’t determine their worth. Full stop. Also, some justification of cheating because wife was dealing with pretty severe depression. Ew. 

The story was good, the concept was super interesting, but there are some problematic concepts. If you’re looking for a quick thriller read this one could be for you! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, Violence, Vomit, and Death

Moderate: Body shaming