Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

495 reviews

atomiccthulu's review

tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Death of parent, and Classism

thedarklady's review

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Racism, Rape, Self harm, and Vomit

carpenoctifera's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Eating disorder

abelle's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol

evo_712's review

dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Rape, and Vomit

Moderate: Eating disorder and Medical content

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

macaylacolemannn's review

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

jessicahuss's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This is my second Grady Hendrix book and I found it to be such an enjoyable read. I loved that the book is like an 80's time capsule, complete with yearbook touches.
It's definitely a weird fever dream horror book, with a touch of humor and I couldn't be happier. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Sexism

Minor: Animal death, Eating disorder, and Vomit

fanglyfish's review

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Animal death and Toxic friendship

Minor: Physical abuse

thekatreturns's review

dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

I love the meshing of genres here. I’m not the biggest fan of teen beach reads, and I’m not the biggest fan of demonic based horror, but together they’re more than the sum of their parts. I didn’t even care that much that I didn’t get every geographic and pop culture reference. Which, because my experience in Tennessee in the 90s is close but not quite South Carolina in the 80s, I felt annoyed by at first but ultimately just found the story so compelling that it didn’t matter. I’m not sure whether this is an ebook specific thing (there were lots of extras inside the ebook) but I did not need to know exactly what one character was eating or how many calories it was. Most of the ebook extras were really fun and built out the world while also being sadly realistic. Overall, I really liked the play with all the Issues™️ that dominated adult messages about teenagehood back in the day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

buzzpoet's review

emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Self harm, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism