Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

32 reviews

crystalvyces's review against another edition

0.25

reflective 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: No

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This book is clearly for boring white girls who dream of home wrecking a famous persons life. If that’s you then yeah this books for you. Boring characters and plot and it goes nowhere it’s like a sad list of white people bullshit and facts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Gaslighting

miagic_tome's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

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Absolutely devoured this book. TJR has a way of developing complex characters that I don’t see often and it’s very apparent in this book. Loved the ups and down that everyone went though and would love to reread with the added context of

Julie being the interviewer/author of the book.

Very fun and quick read with many emotions in between, would definitely recommend, but look at content warning just in case. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Gaslighting

Minor: Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Pregnancy

viireads's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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a massive snoozefest

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

katemcreader's review against another edition

2.0

dark emotional lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Love the innovative format. Really hated the characters and had no sympathy for them.* But honestly, I'm not a TJR fan. This was my third and last book of hers. I understand why the hype--it's the format and the idea of the story. And maybe the execution, but I really hated reading this and was happy to be done. I just don't care about these people. I do not care about celebrities in my real life and don't care about them in my reading life. 

*I watched the TV show based on this hoping to love it more. Nope. Though I thought the actors did an amazing job. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol

kwheeler12's review against another edition

2.0

dark reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Abortion, Pregnancy

koplomps's review against another edition

2.0

reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I was so dissapointed with this book and don't really understand the hype that seemed to surround this book when it came out. Maybe it just wasn't meant for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Infidelity, Violence, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment

Minor: Eating disorder, Sexual content

emily_zylstra02's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting

bashsbooks's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Daisy Jones & the Six is another great book by Taylor Jenkins Reid. If I were going to nitpick, I would say her style of an 11th hour child-related plot twist only really works the first time (and I read Evelyn Hugo before I got StoryGraph), but that is a minor thing. The ending also feels a little abrupt. But I love the level of detail, and the inclusion of the lyrics from the album in the back. I love the messy tension between Billy and Daisy. I love fictionalized versions of things we tend to use to share the truth, like a documentary or like an academic paper (House of Leaves ftw), and this obviously delivered in that realm. I wish I had listened to it as audiobook, but by the time I realized that was the best format, I wanted to read the book too much to wait for that version.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Blood, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

Minor: Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent

sabrinas's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury

moack_5's review against another edition

3.25

emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I wanted to love this book but I had a hard time getrig into it. I finally got through it on the third try. I do think I enjoyed it better as an audio book than I would have a paperback as there were different readers for different characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Body shaming