Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Any Man by Amber Tamblyn

48 reviews

ainhoalikesbooksandmangos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

Wow, from the very beginning I knew this book will we good but I I'm still surprised by how good it was. I loved it, I was hooked. I need more time to collect my thoughts but I loved it. But ve careful, in especially squeamish and I could read this book, but read the warning beforehand please.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Animal death, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, and Sexual violence

acg2285's review

dark

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dysphoria, Animal death, Murder, Sexual violence, Ableism, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Child abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Fatphobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, and Cursing

lydiavsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

A difficult read, but a brilliant one. This is about a female serial r*pist, and the men she assaulted. Its about what happens after a sexual assault, about how you can carry on after going through something like that. Its about the way we treat victims, the blame, the shame, the disbelief. Its about what we put victims through and the expectations we have of what a 'good victim' should be. Its about the expectations we have of men, about how they should fight back, how we define r*pe. 

Its beautifully and harrowingy told in a mix of prose and poetry. Its about the way we respond to these stories, the way we debate someone's suffering, the way we want to know all the details. It highlights how we care about horrific acts as long as they're new and novel and exciting, and how quickly we loose interest once that's passed. A female perpetrator, male victims, the media response to that compared to the attention payed to daily assaults that happen to women. 

It confronts how it isn't about who the victim was before, about judging their character, about how much they fought back or how much they were 'asking for it'. It isn't about them, it could have been any man.

A couple of quotes: 

'I live in a country built on celebritizing its citizens grief and amplifying stories of violence and assault for political gain, click counts, or television ratings.'

'People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek before speeding off to their next fatality

'A country that says innocent until proven guilty even though the proving of assault is nearly impossible. Tell me how you prove coercion?'

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Eating disorder

tallhousecookies's review

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Body horror, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Self harm, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Deadnaming, and Alcoholism

Minor: Murder and Terminal illness

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.5

Well, I was looking for a change of pace and I think I got it.  The topic itself is hard to read about, hard to talk about, etc.

The writing was quite well done, kind of a bit of mixed media with the journal entries, chat logs, transcripts, poetry, and radio show vibes.  The first three victims were well fleshed out and their trauma was ever present and horrifying.  The later ones felt more superficial though I'm not really sure why.  There were also quite a few questions that were raised in the plot that were never answered that made it feel a bit rushed.

I do think this is a good book that has a lot of value in representing sexual assault as a whole and especially in male victims.  However, with all that in mind, I don't feel like I was the intended audience because I don't generally like to read books about rape.  I suppose I didn't expect it to be quite so graphic about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Self harm, Violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Body horror, and Torture

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Drug use, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Eating disorder, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Transphobia

luckystarlane's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Rape, and Sexual assault

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

I reeeeally loved the voice and style of this book. I came into it fully expecting an everyday novel style but was quickly surprised and sucked into the flow of poetic vision among such a hard topic. So well done, I could not put this book down. Every character had such a unique experience, reaction, and coping mechanism to what they experienced. Just wow. So well done, I can't believe I didn't read this sooner. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Transphobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Murder, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicide, Ableism, Physical abuse, and Homophobia

dee_elizabeth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, Eating disorder, Rape, and Terminal illness

indigo149's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Transphobia, Sexism, Self harm, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism