Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

57 reviews

hmetwade's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

tipperary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Grief, Child death, Body shaming, Addiction, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug abuse

kirstenpod_'s review against another edition

mysterious 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Body shaming, Self harm, Suicide, Confinement, Mental illness, Death, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

vivikasweiven's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Confinement, Addiction, Violence, Child death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Dysphoria, Grief, Medical content, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide

lucybmn's review against another edition

funny mysterious 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? Yes

3.75

This book was somehow both anticlimactic and completely unhinged. 💀

So funny and so human, as with all her books. I love her writing and her characters, but the plot here was definitely lacking. I'm very intrigued to watch the show, though. And I'll read more of her books for sure.

I do have to say there was a disturbing amount of... not fatphobia exactly. I could tell it was all actually an attempt to interrogate cultural fatphobia. But nonetheless there were a lot of negative body image issues and ostensible fatphobia and I could have done without it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Child death

Moderate: Drug use and Suicide

kwmcm25's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Body shaming, Suicide, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

deadhouseplant's review

slow-paced

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

2.25

As much as I enjoy takes on cults and wellness, I never grew to care about any of the 9 strangers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder

madlain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Minor: Infertility, Self harm, Animal death, and Cancer

epochrush's review

funny mysterious 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? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming

teabella's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.0

A very long and slow build up to what then feels like a whole bunch of random and chaotic things thrown in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Eating disorder, Death, Child death, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicide, Infidelity, Drug use, and Body shaming