Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Muttermilch by Melissa Broder

164 reviews

dykebakery's review against another edition

This book really pushed the limits of appreciation versus fetishization, and for me it really went past what I was comfortable with. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexual content

8going80's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

The ED aspect of the book definitely made it uncomfortable to read at times as it makes you address your own relationship with food. Good book and easy to whiz through

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Minor: War

cwilsonbaron's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Eating disorder

nora_can_read's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Eating disorder

Moderate: Homophobia

safpearl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

this book made me want to kms

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Incest, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

mushmoll's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring sad medium-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

5.0

Quote:
"Was it possible I could be my own daughter?..I wondered if the universe, in its roundness, somehow already contained my daughterness. Perhaps I'd been being held there, a daughter all along, until I woke up to it."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Outing, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Biphobia, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry

4m0r's review against another edition

funny sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I don't know how to feel about this book
It was good, the 1st third anyway. In the second Broder Lost me, I feel like this is for a very specific audience and me not being part of the Jewish community didn't understand a single thing they said and the author didn't bother explaining it.

I wish the book had less of a Miriam-love base and explored more Rachel's mindset. The ED is barely talked about if not for mentioning she's afraid of being fat and how terrible her mother was (we learn about this all in the 1/3, later we have glimpses of it but is almost completely forgotten). Also her relationship with Miriam was weird, too surface leveled if you asked me. 
I would have liked to see more the transition of Rachel after Miriam, because Broder gave us nothing. I feel like it's not what it promised to be, but still was good because it managed to make laugh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Dysphoria, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

perksofbeingemily's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: War, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia

mojatta's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-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? Yes

3.75

A wild ride. The best word for this book is GRAPHIC. I thought it was well written and it an easy read in the sense that it flowed well, but WOW I was kind of queasy essentially the whole time. I thought that the execution was fantastic but the content was truly gross and I didn’t know how to reconcile that. Graphic!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

selodish's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

I overall really liked this book! It wasn’t the most well written but I also could not put it down. I loved the story line of Rachel and Miriam. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse