Reviews with content warning for Islamophobia - Muttermilch

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Muttermilch by Melissa Broder

19 reviews

rachaelwho's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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jediprincess's review against another edition

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emotional 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

2.0

This book was uncomfortable. I’m not sure how it was supposed to be taken, but felt really fatphobic and fetish-y in the way that I think it wasn’t supposed to be like but failed at.

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arys_library's review against another edition

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emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

I don’t entirely know what to honk of this book, but I know I’d definitely want to read it again. It was strange, the way the narrator spoke and thought, how some things like sex related to her eating disorder and how graphically described the two things were together. It was pretty weird the main characters thoughts, but the relationships in the book were beautiful. I found myself relating to Rachel when she talked about her mother and her eating habits, not as severely but it felt comforting. I also loved loved loved the diversity, and although it was main points of the book, it wasn’t done in a hurtful, stereotypical way. I liked it.

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korinnagarcia's review against another edition

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dark funny 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

3.0

Milk Fed is centered around the hunger that Rachel, a lapsed Jewish woman, feels. A hunger she has for the food she deprives herself of due to meticulous calorie counting, a hunger for the approval of her mother or any mother figure, and the hunger she feels for Miriam, an orthodox Jewish woman, who works at the yogurt shop that Rachel frequents. I read this book in almost one sitting, I was genuinely entertained throughout, and I found the writing style and shorter chapters refreshing. It was engaging, darkly funny, and a bit sexy at times but I don’t know if I liked it. Rachel’s character is just truly unlikable and I wished Miriam would get far away from her.

Milk Fed overall left me feeling unfulfilled. I can’t say that I’d recommend it to anyone but if you were to read it please be aware of the trigger warnings.

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