Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

36 reviews

rowanasm's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

buecher_und_huehner's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia

yasmine_w's review against another edition

adventurous sad

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

acanderson's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This is definitely the first book from Louise Penny where i clocked so much fatphobia. It was a bummer to read, especially from an author who I adore so much :/ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

momsterlee's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

bibliomania_express's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Murder, Child abuse, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Violence, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Car accident, Child death, and Infidelity

princess_azula's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-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

4.5

Another fantastic mystery, twists and turns around every corner! The way the book and the characters discuss life and all it’s beauty and messiness is so thorough and beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Suicide, Body shaming, Murder, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Mental illness

Minor: Child death and Car accident

numbuh12's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

I exclaimed out loud at least three times while reading this book, and I tore through the second half in two days, both of which are very rare for me. 

Louise Penny is a hell of a mystery writer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

hanxiety's review against another edition

the fatphobia was extremely difficult to read and i was not in the right headspace to deal with it at the time I was reading this. May revisit later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

jhbandcats's review

adventurous dark sad tense fast-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

4.5

I recall that when I read Still Life, the first in Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache series, I didn’t get why everyone loved her books. Since then I’ve watched the Three Pines series on TV - the first two episodes are based on A Fatal Grace - and Alfred Molina makes Gamache such a warm, sad, and sympathetic character that it has changed my perception. 

Gamache and most of his team work well together and have a long history that the reader hasn’t (yet) seen. An inexperienced and, frankly, destructive member is foisted onto them, and this is part of a mysterious backstory that’s repeatedly referenced but not spelled out. I kept reading hoping to find out more, but was instead entertained by the mystery in the foreground, the murder of a villager whom everyone hated. 

Against this backdrop of tension and distrust, Gamache and his team must solve more than one murder to understand the misery in a family that’s been in Three Pines only a year or so. Seeing the interactions of the quirky villagers is the real delight here - Penny creates a whole system of friends and friendly rivals that expands with each book. We learn more and more about these characters, and about Gamache, and that’s the pleasure of these books. 

I really enjoyed this and I hope to read the first one again to see if I like it any better now than I did five years ago. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Murder, Body shaming, and Bullying