Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

9 reviews

writerdgabrielle's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous lighthearted relaxing 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: No

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I can't say there was anything remarkably special about the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants but there wasn't anything glaringly terrible either. It was enjoyable, the characters were developed and unique, and the structure—one scene per girl then on to the next—helped keep the story moving in a way I haven't seen in too many books lately. There is such a trend toward lengthy, complicated scenes that draw out over 10-15 pages so it was nice to breeze through scenes that only spanned a page or two, three at most.

It truly was the simplicity and ease of this story that I enjoyed. I will definitely dig into the second book, at some point.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Grief

itsbumley's review against another edition

2.75

lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia

saturnsehyoon's review against another edition

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The way Carmen talks about her body in the first couple of pages made me feel really bad about myself.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Dysphoria

oceanbluetay's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death

Moderate: Racism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

soph_mills's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Car accident, Alcohol

kkshaye's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent

aguattery's review against another edition

3.0

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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It's a good coming of age story but reading it as an adult it's very cringe. There are a lot of topics this hits on that are very uncomfortable to read. I also think some of the main characters were annoying we're almost glad when they got knocked down a peg. I also dont think the author should be writing characters of color. She really played into stereotypes and the character fell flat and two dimensional. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent

sydneywhite's review against another edition

2.5

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cancer, Death

Minor: Body shaming

whatcaitreads's review against another edition

3.0

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent