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Bellies by Nicola Dinan

17 reviews

stefaniacg's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Drug use

Moderate: Eating disorder

hannah_mariee's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, Sexual content, Outing, Car accident, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Transphobia

joensign's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Dysphoria, Grief, and Transphobia

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Death

Minor: Drug use, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Car accident

flashandoutbreak's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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: Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Mental illness, Car accident, Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Dysphoria

thelarsvolta's review

emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Eating disorder and Drug use

evfav's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

I was completely engrossed in this book, I’ve never finished anything so quickly because I was always wanting to pick it up and every time I did I got lost in it’s pages for hours at a time. This story broke my heart in all the ways I expected and some more that I didn’t. Every character revealed vulnerability and depth and felt so real. The way Tom and Ming’s relationship developed felt so natural and warmed and broke my heart. This was an amazing story about self discovery, learning to love yourself, and the hardships of growing into a chaotic world, but it was always grounded in the important lasting friendships. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Dysphoria, Grief, Transphobia, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness

annie26's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

A beautiful story about life, love, identity, grief and accepting yourself for who you are. I adore both Tom and Ming. They are fully realised people to me. I think both were brilliantly characterised and Nicola does an amazing job of writing both their journeys full of complexity and in a non judgemental way. I truly appreciate being able to see the experience of transitioning through the eyes of a trans woman. I also appreciated seeing the journey of someone watching the person that they love transition and sadly fall away from them. I loved how community and friendship is explored here. Although some parts were more engaging than others, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Nicola Dinan is a talent. Thanks to Doubleday UK for my proof copy. This fab book comes out in July.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Eating disorder, Transphobia, and Drug use