Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

30 reviews

mimi_jaja's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious relaxing 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia

addyruth17's review

challenging mysterious reflective medium-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? No

4.75

"Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not."

Immersive. Baffling. Brilliant.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Gaslighting

Minor: Fatphobia, Cursing, Excrement, Gun violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Homophobia

sarah984's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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

5.0

Wow. I don't even know what to say about this novel that won't spoil the experience for anyone thinking of reading it, but I really enjoyed this. The descriptions of the world are fascinating, the main character is charming and his ways of thinking are described in a way that makes them make sense, and the plot took plenty of turns.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Dementia, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Mental illness

Minor: Violence, Ableism, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Animal death, Homophobia, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

touchegiantsquid's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

It's a quiet, reflective fantasy that will probably stay with me for a long time. Being trapped in my house since March 2020, the themes and details of the story felt urgently relevant.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Gaslighting, Slavery, and Fatphobia

The big bad is depicted as sinister and as a way to underline his perversion he is also gay. It's a homophobic trope. At the very end a parallel is drawn between a fat statue and the big bad because fatness is also a perversion to this author. It's fat hate that didn't add to the story.

blackrabbitrun's review

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

A book being Really Quite Good is never such a disappointment as when for the first 150 pages you see it winding up to something Excellent. I believe I may just have chronic Chekhov's gun -itis.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fatphobia and Homophobia

rieviolet's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

I think what I liked the most was Piranesi himself as a narrator, how we slowly discover the house and the story connnected to it from his point of view. 

It is a very imaginative story and certainly very unique, I was really captured by the first half and I still enjoyed the second one, but I think that as the plot progressed and we discovered the darker aspects of it, some of the initial brillance got lost, at least for me. It was still a very enjoyable read that I had trouble putting down (a good half of it I read in just one sitting) and a very well crafted story. 

I also had some personal quibbles over the treatment of certain topics (mailny the only depiction of queerness and also a quite fatphobic description at the very end of the story that really annoyed me) that dimmed my general enjoyment of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Violence, Torture, Gun violence, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Cursing, Vomit, Murder, Gore, Excrement, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Panic attacks/disorders

afion's review

4.75

I loved this so so much. If you haven't read it yet, be very careful about reading reviews because one of the best things about it is how the plot unfolds and it would be a shame to have that ruined by spoilers!

When night fell, I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Minor: Fatphobia

megmav's review

challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Fatphobia, Child death, Confinement, Toxic friendship, and Kidnapping

Minor: Violence and Murder

hazelsnoot's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.5

Reread 12/3/23. 4.75/5 stars. Minus .25 star for the weird fatphobia in the final chapter, and low level but pervasive homophobia towards the main villain?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Mental illness, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Gun violence

Minor: Homophobia, Fatphobia, Excrement, Gun violence, and Child death

thehonestpuck's review

challenging mysterious reflective slow-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Fatphobia and Murder