Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Gone by Michael Grant

27 reviews

m4ferglez's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

A wonderful start to a wonderful series. Lord of the flies meets X-Men in the most gruesome wsy you can imagine. Grant is a master at portraying brutally realistic situations that come along with his premise. 

I do find it at times hard to believe how bloodthirsty some of the kids are, and the coyote/darkness scenes can get pretty repetitive, but otherwise a wonderful novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Torture, Gore, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Murder, Ableism, Death, Child death, Blood, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Child abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Domestic abuse, Vomit, and Excrement

sitrisummoned's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Violence, Gore, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Torture, Child death, Murder, and Death

Minor: Racism

autumngore's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

another reread, would've been a 4 but knocked off percentage for the rly hamfisted handling of religion -- that stuck out to me when compared to the nuanced treatment of p much every other theme in the book. but the book is not bad by any means and would've ateeee as a CW tv show in the 2010s. 

(tried hunger like a decade ago, couldn't get more than maybe 100 pages in? i don't remember much about that reading except that the book didn't intrigue me the way vol 1. did, even through its slow/rough parts. i don't feel compelled to give it another chance the way im intending to do with the wrinkle in time books)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Racism, Eating disorder, and Addiction

slatattack's review against another edition

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

1.5

The plot of this book makes little sense and falls apart in order to write more books. The blinking out lord doesn’t work and just seems to be written in in order to keep Sam and Caine in the FAYZ. 

The explicit depictions of bulimia are unnecessary and not really plot relevant. As too is the ableism and racism. Little Pete didn’t have to be autistic there is no plot reason for it at all and it is written very poorly and very stereotypically and is a very ableist and infantilising portrayal. It seems as though some characters were written as ableist and racist so the author could get away with saying slurs/racist comments. And Astrids response to Pete being called the r-slur is disgusting and ableist as hell against high support needs autistics. 

I finished the book but only because I hate DNFing. The storyline was clunky and had many plot holes and the writing was poor. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Gore

Moderate: Racism and Ableism

hcgambrell's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Child death, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Mental illness and Vomit

arielcg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Confinement, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Torture, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Kidnapping

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Violence, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, War, and Vomit

The R slur is constantly used against an autistic child. The narrative treats it as a bad and disgusting, unacceptable thing, but it is still used a lot.

123urmom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Ableism, Death, Eating disorder, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Murder, Grief, Medical trauma, Torture, Vomit, Body horror, Blood, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Kidnapping, and Racism

i live in a small town where slurs are said all the time. i read the rword more times than i’ve heard it in my life???? holy shit????

shayshays055's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Eating disorder

a11yssa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Child death

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Gun violence, Torture, Vomit, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Child death, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Death, Toxic friendship, Murder, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Eating disorder