Reviews

Supper Club by Lara Williams

ailbhe_km's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

3.75

Slightly slow pacing but interesting enough to keep reading
a very reflective book on women and their own + societies relationship with their bodies and femininity 

aimeebowen's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

1.0

This is the official kibosh on using eating/food as a half-baked metaphor for womanhood and the only personality trait of immature, faux-feminist anti-heroes. Someone needs to put their foot down because enough as enough 

urska's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad fast-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

5.0

matildecf's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

matildamundy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-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

5.0

katiwe's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective 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

3.75

hinabooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective 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

3.5

Loved the messages of liberation and the importance of women taking up space. But I personally cannot get behind anyone who would literally put themselves in mental or physical harm’s way to appease or gain the approval of anyone. I liked Roberta, but no I didn’t. I liked Stevie, but no I didn’t. There were some relatable moments though.

And the selfish, romantic part of me really wanted Roberta and Andnan’s relationship to work out. So I enjoyed this book, but it wasn’t amazing.

rosepoints's review against another edition

1.0

this painfully and obviously reads as a thin woman writing about being fat and for a book that claims to celebrate female bodies, the main character, roberta, constantly talks about being gorgeous when she was thin, hiding her belly, body-checking, and comparing herself to other bodies when she gains weight. 

in addition, there's little focus on the actual titular supper club, and the women feel shallow and ancillary to roberta's traumas. roberta herself seems to have so much internalized misogyny, and i don't feel like the supper club was "a transgressive and joyous collective of women who gather to celebrate, rather than admonish, their hungers" at all, whatsoever. roberta's relationship with stevie also reads as a rip-off of sally rooney's "conversations with friends" but at least in rooney's edition, there was actual credence lent to the queer nature of it and not the tokenization that appears in "supper club." also, the misgendering of a trans character really turned me off.

where is the sisterhood! where are the female friendships! where is the reclamation of self and hunger! instead of any of what it promises to deliver, this book ends up centering insufferable men and body image. total pass, would not recommend.

msdandan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

scarlettrmc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0