Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

5 reviews

melethwi's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

the outlander universe is always cozy but there’s fatphobia on every other page of this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Fatphobia, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Body shaming, Slavery, Racism, and Adult/minor relationship

irishbelle10's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

1.5

This one was tough for me to get through. Some parts I liked, but there were too many things that left a bitter taste in my mouth. The racism was bad.

Every mention of Yi Tien Cho using the C slur? Yikes. Frank saying some racist stuff? Oof. The treatment of the enslaved people? Horrifying. But, I was surprised at the part at the sale of enslaved people when Claire freaked out but acknowledged that she wasn’t doing it for any of the people being sold, but for herself. It’s a startlingly modern moment, but an important one I think, cause Claire isn’t really an ally like they tried to make her in the show, and this thought really reflects that. Anyways.

Jamie, to my horror,

sexually assaulted Geneva (and yes it was assault because she told him to stop and he didn’t. Her blackmailing him is bad, yes, but two wrongs don’t make a right),

and I was incredibly angry and am still not over it. And the fatphobia in this book became honestly unbearable. Among other things,

telling your daughter not to get fat in your farewell letter to her before you go back into the past forever?

Good god. So, safe to say this is my least favorite of the books by a mile. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Death, Violence, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Racism, and Slavery

kellymoroney's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Slavery, Colonisation, Blood, Death, Racism, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Suicide

Minor: Ableism and Body shaming

josiewie's review

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Slavery, Trafficking, and Xenophobia

johannab's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit