Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Muttermilch by Melissa Broder

177 reviews

nad_books623's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

3.5

Well this was odd.

I’m sad that the relationship between Miriam and Rachel didn’t work out. I enjoyed reading about their relationship more than Rachel’s eating disorder.

This book was highly entertaining but there were parts I did not like. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Moderate: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexism, and War

alexandracpedro's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Biphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Outing, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Self harm and Vomit

arbramirez's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Toxic friendship

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

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

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: Eating disorder and Emotional abuse

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: Eating disorder and Emotional abuse

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, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Incest

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

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

Moderate: Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Dysphoria