Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace

14 reviews

pa0la_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Really liked this book. It definitely made be feel rage, anger, empowerment, and hope for women, for myself. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Body shaming

peacholino's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting

lizacorn's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Self harm

warlockdorian's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

siebensommer's review

1.75

‘we can’t lose our empathy’ to me doesn’t go along w ‘make no apologies; accept no apologies’.
feels too much like the ubiquitous effort to be as angry and loud as possible in order to overthrow shit rather than of all of us (including & especially men) being softer and more in the generous listening. this debate to me is going toward the false direction.

i am not wanting to discredit anger i am just questioning the sensibility and efficiency of words like these at a time like this (war, social injustice, lived consequences of decades disregarding our home & source 🌍)

also just didn’t find the style of poetry itself compelling

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

boopointeshoes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Wish I could give this book more than 5 stars!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, and Sexism

kj468's review against another edition

I borrowed this from the library because I follow the author on Instagram and quite like a lot of the poems she posts there (in 2022). However, the themes in this book were very different, ones I don’t relate to, and the overall message of the book seems to be “men bad, women victims”. While I’m a strong feminist and firmly believe that there are deeply rooted societal problems regarding the mentality that men at large are taught regarding women at large, this book was incredibly reductive and took the “all men” narrative too far. I wanted to finish this book but honestly it was too depressing and infuriating, and I just fundamentally didn’t agree with the viewpoint the book was taking, so reading the second half didn’t seem like a good use of my time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Rape, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexism

daphne_430's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexism

the author included a page with the trigger warnings at the beginning of the book

neni's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

1.5

I don't get why this type of format is so popular. Full respect for the author, she has as much right to publish her work as anyone else, but I genuinely thought this was weak af. 
There was no real structure to the "poems", no particular beauty in the phrasing, and I honestly struggle to even call it poetry, when all it felt like was a continuous stream of consciousness speech about (albeit important, necessary) topics that are so overdone in the public discourse because they get "clicks" , they begin to lose all meaning. I don't think these types of works especially do these topics and these struggles any justice because there weren't any actual insights or substance to the poems , it's almost like they were just there for the angsty/emo aesthethic and not much else.
There has to be a way to approach these themes in a more engaging thoughtful way and this book just wasn't it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, and Racism

macysmith's review against another edition

inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, and Sexism