Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Mad Honey by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult

39 reviews

goodin10tions's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Mad Honey is it's own story but I feel like if you are a fan of Saving Jacob, Middlesex,  or The Lovely Bones you will love it. The journey of all the characters is haunting and melancholy. Sensitive readers should research the content because there are many possible triggers.
This is a long story (15 hrs) but it goes by really fast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Murder, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Suicide attempt, Bullying, and Homophobia

Moderate: Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Grief, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Suicidal thoughts

innocentce's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad 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

4.75

 The authors do I good job of showing the complexities and struggles that trans people go throw, on the surface level. How relationships can change as soon as someone finds out a person is trans, that not all relationships can survive, but for others it makes them stronger, and everywhere in between. They explore the assumptions that cis-people have, that not all trans people are the same, and not all choose to or want to be open about their being trans and that "it does not matter" and "it is no-one's business". 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Body shaming and Domestic abuse

alexandramiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-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

Learned an awful lot about bees

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Outing, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Misogyny, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Self harm, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, Violence, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Police brutality, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity and Mass/school shootings

amesnotamy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Medical trauma, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Violence

londeen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Outing, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Misogyny, Dysphoria, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Murder, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Deadnaming, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia

sjp8987's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Death, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Suicide, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Murder, Child death, Bullying, and Body shaming

saraperdue01's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Outing, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Murder, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Abortion

nreyno's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Transphobia, Outing, Domestic abuse, Death, Murder, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

jnterhune's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

2.75

Very modern story. Still had some major twists and the ending saved it in my opinion. Found it kind of hard to balance between each characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

Moderate: Sexual content

ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This story broke me. The domestic violence, death, trial, and crime left me on the edge of my seat. I loved that the narrators were Olivia (Asher's mom) and Lily (the girlfriend) both women. The whole crime ordeal was tense and compelling. And this happens in real life; I bet it's super stressful and scary, especially for the parties involved. 

I truly believe a person's upbringing makes a part of a person. Meaning, as time went we decide for ourselves, and through that decision-making, we learn. What I'm saying is that we make what we are as people. Yeah, we can blame others for breaking us, but if we didn't pick up the pieces after that, we suffer so much and we won't survive. That's why I salute Olivia and Ava as mothers because they care about their kids whoever they may be. They both made sure that they were safe and away from people who constantly break them. That's not easy to do. I don't know transgender people irl, but it must not be easy to be trapped in a body that you don't see yourself in. Lily is a brave soul for knowing who she is and what she wants at an early age. 

I love the story structure of this. Liv and Lily told the story both in the past, but Liv's in the future style. If that even made sense. The story is gripping and fast-paced even though it's long. I didn't get bored even for a second.

Oh! The honey stuff and the fact that Liv called her queen bees pop divas names made me smile. This is my second book from Jodi and my first from Jenny, I'll read more. Oh, and it was so cool that this story was based on Jenny's epic dream. Overall, a great read❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship