Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

40 reviews

annahamburger's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident, Drug use, Grief, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Dysphoria, Infertility, Transphobia, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Cursing, Dementia, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Blood, and Infidelity

kaitieg97's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

Really enjoyed this story, I didn't expect those plot twists! A pretty thrilling read!

Dropped 1 star after a reread for the excessive use of the phrases "healthy eating", always bring up the fact they were drinking seltzer water, and describing people as "fat" for no reason. It didn't add anything to the plot and was unnecessary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Car accident, Kidnapping, and Drug use

Minor: Infertility

mitchell_1's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Body shaming

Moderate: Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Car accident, and Racism

onceandfuturereads's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.0

Until about halfway in I didn’t *hate* it. But by then even the pictures couldn’t save it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Fatphobia and Transphobia

ktame001's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

Minor: Fatphobia

voidcrawler's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

0.5

littered with right wing propaganda, primarily in the form of transphobia. sprinkle in some casual fatphobia, racism, and religious bigotry, and you have this book.

i’m now convinced booktok, especially the horror side of it, either don’t read the books they promote or they severely lack reading comprehension skills. everyone’s more obsessed with how “wOw fUcKed uP!!! 🥴” something is in terms of gore and jump-scares over the actual problematic shit in this book. bonkers, really, since so many horrortok creators are left-leaning and lgbtq+.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Cursing, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Dementia

hannanni41's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

It had a lot of promise but just had too many plot contrivances and required too much suspension of disbelief for me. The pictures were a lot of fun though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Car accident, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Transphobia

Minor: Infertility and Racism

maggiefaerie's review against another edition

DNF @29% This book bounces from microaggressions to flat out racism, transphobia, fat shaming, and it's laced with right wing values. These elements don't provide any societal commentary. They're unnecessary and I found reading this book to be extremely uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, Classism, Death, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Transphobia, Fatphobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

karmachamillionaire's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

1.0

This book is entertaining enough if read mindlessly, but it’s deeply problematic on multiple fronts (transphobic, fatphobic, contains unchallenged racist stereotypes, has an extremely misconstrued view of sex education for children etc.) cannot recommend and am really shocked by how many readers are missing it’s clearly anti-leftist, far-right/conservative dog whistles & agenda. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Racism, and Fatphobia