Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

41 reviews

taylormadespines's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

sisters26's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Fatphobia, Vomit, and Death of parent

clarabooksit's review

emotional fast-paced

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

2.75

This YA graphic novel deals with some heavy topics, namely eating disorders and the death of a parent. While I can’t personally speak to the ED rep, I do think this book might be helpful to a young person dealing with that. Where this book lost me though is in how dismissed the grief is. The toxic relationship the mc has with her mother eclipses her own grief, which would’ve been fine and even realistic if that had been addressed but instead the death of her father felt like a bump in the road instead of the traumatic event it should’ve been. It made me angry. Anyway, the art is great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit

dazzle_spider_reader_1212's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

sweetpotatocat's review

emotional reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder

sweetsouthwest's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

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

5.0

A very real story, not just about disordered eating but I really resonated with the nuances of Val’s relationship with her mother and how it is explained. The illustrations and color scheme were also so beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Vomit and Death of parent

themoonkestrel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Vomit

bonnieebrown's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Death of parent

alisazhup's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I loved it! I think there would have been more depth to the themes if the story was longer. Also, the transitions in between scenes sometimes seemed a little choppy. Nevertheless, a great and quick read :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, and Death of parent