Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Reputation by Lex Croucher

5 reviews

styxx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Classism, Abandonment, Body shaming, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Death, Racism, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

amberinpieces's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, Blood, Classism, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Animal death, Biphobia, Body shaming, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Vomit

emily_mh's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

4.25

I had so much fun with this one! It was such a good retelling of Mean Girls, super entertaining, and with writing as witty and concise as Austen’s. I also loved the romance between Georgiana and Thomas! My only issues were that Georgiana’s conflict with her parents and the climax action felt a little undeveloped. 

As a side note, I listened to the audiobook read by Bessie Carter, who did an incredible job bringing the story to life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Cursing, Rape, Death, and Child death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Animal death, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Homophobia, Vomit, Sexism, Slavery, Grief, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Body shaming, Blood, Excrement, and Medical content

Loss of a loved one (including brother), sick parent, chronic migraines (in a minor character), toxic parents

kirbylover16's review

After three hours in and a couple of times trying...
I couldn't connect to the main character Georgiana. She was annoying, superficial, and blah. She's the cliche bookworm who dreams of excitement and, I'm not like other girls. After having one night of fun, she decides that she won't try to befriend anyone else. It's Frances or nothing. Of course, Frances is a hot mess. Where is the romance or Bridgerton meets Gossip Girl part? I'm totally getting the Mean girls vibes but not the others. All we know about the love interest(or who I believe is) is he is not interested in Georgiana and likes to brush his horse. Dreamy. All of the characters are unnecessity mean or clueless. The narrator is great though the story, romance, characters are not there. 2/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Alcohol, Abandonment, Body shaming, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Classism, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Pregnancy and Racism

It's not clear if the pregnancy was miscarried or not it's really establishing this guy is a bad dude and doesn't love the girls he's with. A lot of bad parents in this book. One rich white dude marries a middle-class black woman and when the marriage is falling apart he blames her for not being a high lady. There's tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs at every party.