Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

92 reviews

beltari's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.0

If you want to read an amazingly built world with multidimensional characters, I highly recommend Brandon Sanderson, especially the Stormlight Archive series. 

This book was fun but I enjoyed it the same way I enjoyed Sharknado. I can see why some less experienced readers would love it too. It was written so that young female readers will identify themselves with the "not like other girls" protagonist and if that's your cup of tea, go for it. It has cool fight scenes, Mexican novel levels of drama, and smutty scenes worthy of AO3. It's a light read and made me laugh with all the cringy dialogue and obvious plot twists. I'm giving it 4 stars because it fulfilled my need for a popcorn book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cultural appropriation, Classism, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Ableism, Toxic relationship, War, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Body shaming, Animal death, and Gore

mysteryspouse's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Cursing, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Death, Blood, Body shaming, Classism, Genocide, Grief, Gore, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, Emotional abuse, Vomit, War, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Excrement

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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? No

5.0

I’m a sucker for a dystopian, fuck corrupt government, the bad guys might be the good guys story and this one is no exception. Toss in some spice, some romance, some high fantasy and fucking dragons? I’m hooked. Holy moly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Vomit, Violence, War, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, Blood, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Death of parent, Torture, Bullying, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

___'s review against another edition

This [female] author is contributing to the normalization of [male] body shaming.

Also, most of the second half of the book is just smut garbage. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

brand_ohs's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

Good plot, if you’re into romance those moments are some of the better that I have read. Pacing very good and it always felt like something was happening. If you are getting into fantasy books this is not a bad place to start. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Body shaming

Not really spoiler but will bring attention to it a lot, the phrase

”this shouldn’t be a turn on”

and other similar variants gets used frequently enough it became funny to me.

soobooksalot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

Holy shit!!! What took me so long to read this book!!! It is incredible!!! Rebecca Yarros is in the same league with Sarah J Maas except with Rebecca it doesn’t take a book or 2 to get me addicted to the series, I was hooked from the beginning! I loved everything about this book & I already want to read it again!!! But instead I’m going to go start Iron Flame! 😍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, War, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Bullying, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Physical abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Abandonment and Torture

spellygirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood, Grief, War, Death, Gore, Body horror, Body shaming, Murder, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Bullying

sabrina_d_arcy's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, War, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, Bullying, Blood, Gore, and Ableism

emsavors's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.5

Rebecca Yarros really sat down and wrote a book which includes every possible trope ever. Manic pixie dream girl, not like the other girls, i’m no longer attracted to my best friend but i am attracted to the guy who wants to kill me. You’ll find all these and more. Also the ending is just the hunger games: catching fire.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, War, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Colonisation, Blood, Child death, Gore, Animal death, Ableism, Cursing, Grief, Murder, Death, Genocide, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Torture