Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

47 reviews

mitchell_1's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Body shaming

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racism, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, and Car accident

onceandfuturereads's review against another edition

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

2.0

Until about halfway in I didn’t *hate* it. But by then even the pictures couldn’t save it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Fatphobia and Transphobia

ktame001's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Fatphobia

voidcrawler's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

0.5

littered with right wing propaganda, primarily in the form of transphobia. sprinkle in some casual fatphobia, racism, and religious bigotry, and you have this book.

i’m now convinced booktok, especially the horror side of it, either don’t read the books they promote or they severely lack reading comprehension skills. everyone’s more obsessed with how “wOw fUcKed uP!!! 🥴” something is in terms of gore and jump-scares over the actual problematic shit in this book. bonkers, really, since so many horrortok creators are left-leaning and lgbtq+.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

mysterious slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Racism, Transphobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Dementia

hannanni41's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

It had a lot of promise but just had too many plot contrivances and required too much suspension of disbelief for me. The pictures were a lot of fun though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia, Infidelity, Transphobia, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility and Racism

maggiefaerie's review against another edition

DNF @29% This book bounces from microaggressions to flat out racism, transphobia, fat shaming, and it's laced with right wing values. These elements don't provide any societal commentary. They're unnecessary and I found reading this book to be extremely uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

karmachamillionaire's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

1.0

This book is entertaining enough if read mindlessly, but it’s deeply problematic on multiple fronts (transphobic, fatphobic, contains unchallenged racist stereotypes, has an extremely misconstrued view of sex education for children etc.) cannot recommend and am really shocked by how many readers are missing it’s clearly anti-leftist, far-right/conservative dog whistles & agenda. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, and Transphobia

kmoore98's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

Adding to my review a year in hindsight and after much discussion with my bookclub. This was such a fun read but the ending is so transphobic is undoes all of the stuff before it. A shame the author also like to shout out JK Rowling. A good premise that is let down by the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Fatphobia and Racism

ertrunnell's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No

2.5

There were things I hated about this book, but I still couldn’t stop listening so can’t knock it down too much. I definitely didn’t guess the major plot twist like some other readers did. Had more of a YA feel than adult. 

Hated: transphobia, religious commentary, plot holes, irritating narrator, fatphobia

I thought it would have been interesting if the twist was that the whole thing was based on an unreliable narrator. 

Other than what’s mentioned in “hated,” the writing was decent and I did want to figure out what the hell was going on.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia and Transphobia