Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

20 reviews

brikui's review against another edition

too many main characters, hard to keep up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Eating disorder, Child abuse, and Sexism

Moderate: Ableism

jinnvamp's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Eating disorder

runawry's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Fatphobia, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Bullying, Trafficking, Drug use, and Body shaming

laceyc1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Sexism, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Eating disorder

outersgrace's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Classism, Fatphobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual content, Abortion, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, and Death

luluzza's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual content

shanominom's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I was looking for a book with complex female characters to sink my teeth into, and thankfully I found this one! I loved the tense, melancholy atmosphere, which, I felt, accurately depicted the constraints and challenges of being a woman in South Korea's patriarchal society. The characters were multi-faceted with unique back stories, and I liked Cha's decisions to keep specifics unknown/ambiguous!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Suicide

danajoy's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

andreiaoh's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.5

Well, that ending was underwhelming.

I'm not saying books need to have a point but I really could not grasp the point of this book? Like, it was interesting (sort of) to read the lives of different women and how they intersected with one another but nothing really happened, there was not much character development if any, it was all just a bit glum.

2.5 because there was something intriguing about the book but I came out of it a little confused about how I felt about it. I didn't love it, didn't like it, but also didn't dislike it either??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abandonment, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Eating disorder and Abortion

aidrielle's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

i thought this book was a pretty good exploration of the different issues women face (being a woman living under a late capitalist society fucking sucks by the way, but we already knew that). i especially liked its exploration on pretty privilege--how it's not just a very real thing but also a systemic thing. to an extent, society rewards attractive people by giving them more opportunities in both their work and their personal lives. so no, people getting plastic surgery isn't just for vanity--not when society literally favors the pretty.

i also liked all of the characters!! i thought they were all complex enough to each warrant a full-length novel of their own (i would especially love a spin-off about ara's and sujin's teenage years).

that being said, though, i wish this book could have done more. like i said, it was more of an exploratory novel i guess. i wish it had dived a little deeper into how these issues could be solved, even if it's just in theory. after finishing the book i just found myself asking and? what now? 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Violence