Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green

4.42 AVERAGE

ameliavult's review against another edition

4.5
challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
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skk111321's review against another edition

5.0
What a story to start my year on! I personally have been wanting to get back into graphic novels, and Lighter Than My Shadow was a perfect pick. I feel like reading about eating disorders/the creep of a therapist through a visual context made it so much more real and intense of a read, which is what I look for in the stories I read. I liked the visualization of her depression/eating disorders being a jumble of black scribbles around her. I think it was a great detail to have in there.

Will definitely be looking out for this author/artist’s other work!

jnkay01's review

3.0
hopeful informative medium-paced
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kine_starkiller's review against another edition

5.0
Vakkert, trist, riktig og ikke minst veldig, veldig viktig om spiseforstyrrelser. Jeg gråt.
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ninebookishlives's review against another edition

4.5
dark emotional reflective sad

aliciareillife's review against another edition

4.75
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
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lonsdya's review against another edition

Autobiografia - pozostawiam bez oceny
Chwytająca za serce historia życia autorki zmagającej się z anoreksją oraz bulimią. OGROMNY TW: molestowanie seksualne, gwałt i oczywiście zaburzenia odżywiania

readsleeponrepeat's review against another edition

5.0
Excellent graphic novel about really tough subjects and the author’s recovery from her eating disorder. Great, great, great read!

danibee33's review against another edition

4.0
This story was so very devastating to read.. The illustrations were such detailed and intimate windows into the paths that led Katie into, through, and past a lifelong struggle with disordered eating, body dysmorphia, and a deeply distorted self-image. The attention-to-detail in the artwork of this book makes it personal and resonant in ways that emotionally hit very hard. Compelling, heartbreaking, hopeful.

Content warnings include disordered eating, anorexia, binging, purging, sexual assault, rape, victim-blaming, pedophilia, non-consentual drug consumption

fictionfiend74's review against another edition

5.0
dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced
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