Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

20 reviews

karenschlesser's review

dark reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Self harm, Infidelity, and Blood

Minor: Child death

circadroid's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Sexual assault and Animal death

danaaliyalevinson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

This book was short and sweet. A misanthropic ‘Buffy’ and ‘what I eat in a day’ video obsessed vampire artist grapples with art and connection in present day London. If you’re a fan of Otessa Moshfegh and Ocean Vuong… imagine a vampire novel written by the two of them.

At the end of the day, this book was about breaking generational trauma, and female desire and its challenge to the gender hierarchy. And I don’t exclusively mean sexual desire, I mean ambition as well.

The prose was absolutely beautiful. The characters were rich and fascinating. Sometimes I felt the grand themes got away from the book a little. But overall, I really really enjoyed this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Racism, Murder, Dementia, Sexism, Blood, Death, Grief, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

littki's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Gore, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Bullying, Terminal illness, Vomit, Cancer, Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Infertility, Death, and Dementia

laelolou's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Infidelity

foxwish's review against another edition

reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Eating disorder

Moderate: Death of parent and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual content

ninajean's review against another edition

3.75

This book is largely no plot-just vibes, but I still found it so interesting. There were a few parts that were a bit slow paced, yet I still enjoyed it. Lydia is struggling to resist the temptation of her vampire identity while struggling with her self-identity as an artist in her 20’s.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, and Misogyny

Minor: Infidelity and Vomit

r_o_s_e's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infidelity, Misogyny, and Forced institutionalization

charmgirl3's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

If you liked Ladybird, you’ll like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Infidelity, Murder, Grief, Dementia, Rape, and Self harm

The trigger warnings listed are generalizations— in which the themes are very loose in their depictions and most are not graphic (aside from the death ones). I listed them just to be safe, because although I wasn’t triggered, I can see how others might be.

kasssidyy's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

There was a lot of potential here but it just didn’t fall over the cusp. I felt like the author could’ve gone all in with a few more plot pieces/ Lydia’s two sides. It’s more a book on dualities of life, internal suffering and I generational trauma… with a vampire main character. Lydia’s stream of consciousness was a bit dry and while I didn’t need a horrific, gothic vampire read..a bit more plot or development could have been helpful. Lydia being able to see/feel what her “victim” could was fascinating but barely flushed out. It got boring when i was 60% through and Lydia hadn’t fed at all. It was a decent read, short but one I may not recommend. Will look for more by the author though, the writing style was great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Sexual violence and Animal death