Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Black Knight by Rina Kent

70 reviews

kkayreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book took a lot of emotional twists and turns. Both main characters, Xander and Kimberly, are beautifully broken. Friends to enemies and eventually to lovers. I found myself crying, laughing and with my jaw on the floor throughout this book. Completely and utterly obsessed with the characters and  series. 

Note: Highly recommend checking all triggers before reading. There is a lot of emotional trauma, self harm and bullying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, and Self harm

culzean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Suicide, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Cursing, Fatphobia, Addiction, Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, Self harm, Stalking, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

rabbitsdolly's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual content, Addiction, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Mental illness

jordanfogo's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Eating disorder, Bullying, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

kelzbooks44's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Eating disorder

anitprv's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Suicide attempt

smudgebundle's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Eating disorder

nicole_thereader's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Animal death

whisperingchapters's review against another edition

emotional

4.0

I was able to binge this in less than 12 hours. 💪🏽 Xander and Kimberly’s story tore me to pieces. I related so much to Kimmy, and it hurt me to see it from an outside perspective. 

Their story was absolutely brutal and emotional, all because of secrets and betrayals. But it was wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Eating disorder

stuffandwhatnot's review against another edition

3.5

A few months ago, I watched a short youtube video about Boris Johnson and how he was a snobby, shitty bully in his schooldays and it had pictures of him and his teen bully clique and now I think it completely ruined bully romances that are set in English schools for me.

I liked Kim and and her struggles--I wanted so badly for someone to just see how bad things were for her and help her. This made Xander all the more frustrating, because he clearly knows her pretty well, and yet he missed her eating disorder, her self-harm, her suicidal ideation, her deep depression? Sure, he's an alcoholic who's forcing himself to hate her (for EXTREMELY melodramatic reasons), but still.

As for his reasons, I'm going to spoil the Big Reveal here so click the spoiler link at your own risk:

So you're eleven years old and you overhear your dad and your best friend's mom talking and it turns our your best friend (who you like as more than a friend) is your sister. What do you do?

- Tell her and try to navigate this new aspect of your relationship together. After all, you promised to always be there for each other, right?

- Don't tell her and try to suppress your feelings, maybe step back a bit from how intense your friendship is, but that's normal for boys and girls when they hit puberty anyway, right?

- Don't tell her, try to drink your feelings away, tell her you hate her and think she's disgusting. Bully her in school and stand by as others bully her, too. Let her think for seven years that you turned on her because you can never forgive her for a childish prank. Then, when another boy shows interest in her, drunkenly make out with her and then tell her she's disgusting again. Finally, only after just barely saving her from a graphic, on-screen suicide attempt (chapter 19, if you want to avoid it), only then tell her that you are siblings and the whole reason you've been a shit to her is because you don't want to get incest boners. (Which didn't work, btw.)

Of course it turns out (via a VERY soap-operaish twist) that they aren't siblings (he was a Jon Snow, not a Jaime Lannister!) and that makes everything a-okay. Time to head to bone town! (I really liked that it turned out Xander was also a virgin, in spite of his manwhore reputation. Very sweet and unusual.)

I did appreciate that they both got help instead of relying on just the power of love. Rehab for him, therapy for her. But it did seem to tie up a little too quickly and neatly for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Suicide attempt