Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Layla by Colleen Hoover

6 reviews

sldibened's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Blood, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Murder, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Gun violence

gmbooks11_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Violence, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

samantha_121234's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Grief

maxximus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Oh my GOD I was not expecting any of this but this book is so good! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Death, and Fatphobia

Minor: Suicide

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Not my favorite of Hoover’s by far, this novel was just okay for me mainly because of how unbelievable the plot was. Hoover even writes characters who can’t believe the plot so I don’t know how the reader was expected to. I felt like Leeds was kind of an unredeemable character in that he validates his behavior against Layla by using information he didn’t have before he did the thing. This makes me uncomfortable because the thing was still wrong because he didn’t have all the pertinent information when he did it. I did like how intense the writing was — it made you want to get to the end to know what was happening — but I wouldn’t want to read this for the first time again, like I’ve wanted to with Hoover’s other novels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Self harm, Confinement, Cursing, Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual content, and Gun violence

nezhaouballa915's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Body shaming