Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

The Doloriad by Missouri Williams

38 reviews

shelbyrodger's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Ableism, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Incest, and Rape

lizwizwiz's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Incest, Fatphobia, Ableism, Death, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Blood, Pregnancy, Body horror, Torture, and Sexual content

okl_auren's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Physical abuse, Death, Murder, Rape, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism

jenwritesnstuff's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

possibly one of the strangest books i’ve ever read. extremely disturbing and i’m not even sure if i enjoyed it but i also can’t stop thinking about it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Body horror, Death, and Rape

Moderate: Vomit and Fatphobia

erinbarton's review

dark slow-paced

2.0

somehow neither plot or character focused. this started off interesting and mysterious and then just felt like 200 pages of constant backstory of how the family came to be with no progression. most of the taboo/disturbing content in this just felt purely for shock value and didn’t lend anything to the story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Incest, Rape, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Animal death and Death

t3hyan3s3's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense 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

2.0

I picked up this book as a challenge cause a lot of people were putting it on their “disturbing read” list, and I was just left confused and uncomfortable; which I guess is what makes it disturbing. 

The book has very little dialogue and styled with metaphors and prose. It gets hard to follow at several parts because it tends to go off on philosophical tangents and switches between POVs without any clear distinction.

The characters are horrible and are treated as such. The character Dolores is the catalyst for the book however she’s rarely shown, and when she is she’s abused or ridiculed. 

All in all, I think why it’s so confusing is because it’s not clear what it’s supposed to be. Personally, I feel like it’s trying to make some sort of statement/message; but it’s irrelevant if people can’t understand what you’re trying to say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Body horror, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Bullying, Incest, Sexual violence, Fatphobia, and Murder

andreazadro's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.75

Hard to read in many ways, heed trigger warnings. Extremely slow going, with convoluted descriptions of the world they live in. Very hard to follow, even for an experienced reader. Outside of that, the near-indifferent descriptions of the sexual violence made it nearly unbearable. Almost did not finish. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Incest, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder, Body shaming, Violence, and Fatphobia

cosmictantrum's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

2.0

I was so excited to read this as the blurb made the book sound like it was right up my street.

Didn’t end up being what I thought it would be, and while I see a lot of people praising the prose, the stream of consciousness narration is definitely not for me despite it making sense in the context of the story. Ended up being a bit of a slog to get through.

Another thing is that the way they described fatness made me a bit uncomfortable and I couldn’t tell if there was some hidden reason for it given that the rest of the text was rife with imagery (which a lot of times went over my head as I’m not too familiar with catholic texts etc).

Def check out the TWs before reading. The content didn’t bother me but it definitely makes for heavy/difficult reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Ableism, Incest, and Rape

Moderate: Murder and Pregnancy

booksarebrainfood's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Incest, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Ableism, and Physical abuse

hoperin's review against another edition

2.0

Lets start with the good. The prose is gorgeous, the kind of dreamlike run on sentence that is not for everyone, but that I adore. And in particular, the shifting of point of view without taking a breath or breaking a paragraph is done absolutely  magically. That said, the prose and cover was literally the only praise I can give this book, after waiting a week after finishing it to see how I felt. After reading a little bit I hopped on to read some reviews, as I do when I'm unsure about a book, and saw one saying that this book is deeply fat phobic, and at the time I was like, "hey I will reserve judgment,  maybe this is going somewhere, maybe there's a reason for things, or maybe the reader is just identifying calling things fat as fatohobic". Now that I've read the whole way through, dear review reader, I am confident in saying this book is *violently* fatohobic for no reason other than to be cruel. This is a deeply *cruel* book, and I read it with increasing dread, both that I had been tricked by beautiful prose into a substanceless story, and that it was just going to get worse. This is no Odessa mosfegh where the cruelty underlies a humanness. This really just feels like, how can I make this as unpleasant as possible? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fatphobia, Ableism, and Incest

Moderate: Rape