Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

29 reviews

miayukino's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Gore, Body horror, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Grief, Rape, Chronic illness, and Body shaming

Minor: Fatphobia and Transphobia

looney_moons's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.25

I will read anything Mariana Enriquez has ever written if it makes me feel even as close to feeling like this.


Ratings for the individual stories (rating is the average):
Angelita Unearthed: 4/5
Our Lady of the Quarry: 5/5
The Cart: 3/5
The Well: 5/5
Rambla Triste: 3/5
The Lookout: 3/5
Where Are You, Dear Heart: 4/5
Meat: 4/5
No Birthdays or Baptisms: 4/5
Kids Who Come Back: 5/5
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: 3/5
Back When We Talked to the Dead: 3/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Body horror, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Murder, Violence, Self harm, Child abuse, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Gore, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Rape, Cannibalism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Child death

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Pedophilia

abigailc0x's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Scary and graphic at times but scary in a good way - didn’t expect what was going to happen
also them describing children in that one bit made me extremely uncomfortable but like it was good to read and very interesting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Vomit, Cannibalism, Child death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Drug use, Gore, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Fatphobia

lilzoologist's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Child death, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Trafficking, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Drug abuse, Addiction, Excrement, Drug use, and Body shaming

lilysaddler's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Mental illness

Moderate: Violence, Transphobia, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Self harm, Gore, and Suicide

hanytea's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Transphobia, Violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Fatphobia, Child abuse, Child death, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, and Body shaming

invaderlinz's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

2.75

Some of the stories were good and spooky (and this cover is amazing), but I really couldn’t get past the fatphobia, homophobic and transphobic slurs that were strewn throughout the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Transphobia, Trafficking, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Rape, Homophobia, and Fatphobia

nicnevin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Short stories with a sinister edge, Enriquez writes of a vivid, dark modern world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

worldsworstmilf's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I had to keep taking breaks from reading this as everything about it was so miserable and homogenous. The characters and individual stories form one elongated, fucked up narrative - the book succeeds in showing that the real horror comes from the complicit and dismissive attitudes characters have towards lots of (really triggering) things, but half of that content seems more used as a shortcut for dark world building. The writing is skilled, sure, but when you can guess the outcome of every story it’s more a test of resilience to see if you can finish the collection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, Body horror, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Incest, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Fatphobia, and Body shaming