Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

משפחה של שקרנים by E. Lockhart, א' לוקהארט

15 reviews

moonbin's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

ishouldbereading's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

missrosymaplemoth's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Murder

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault

fpgreviews's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Suicide, Antisemitism, Lesbophobia

Minor: Racism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War

feuillycakes's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I can’t say I loved this as much as We Were Liars. I’m not even sure if the reason I enjoyed it so much was because of my love of the first book or if it is just a genuinely good book. I loved finding out about the history on the Sinclair family, seeing the little nuggets of information that we weren’t privy to in the first book, the tension of wondering what exactly this big, terrible secret was going to be. I’m not so sure the writing style of the first book was entirely effective when used here, though. I didn’t really like the use of fairytales like I did in We Were Liars, and the weird line breaks didn’t make me feel the words more strongly like they did before. I do love a good plot twist though, a big reveals are very much my kind of thing.

The only thing I felt a bit icky about was the whole thing of using sexuality as some plot twist or excuse for bad behaviour. It felt very sudden and slapdash, like there needed to be an excuse and then once it was used it was barely mentioned again.

All in all, I did enjoy this book and I’d definitely recommend it to anyone who loved We Were Liars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Rape, Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming