Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Le Dieu des Bois by Liz Moore

45 reviews

yaveiska's review against another edition

3.25

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I didn’t care for the rich lot at all. The first 100 pages dragged on for me. I don’t think I became fully invested into the story until Judyta came into the novel. However, I really enjoyed the ending! It was satisfying and wrapped up all of my questions! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Minor: Eating disorder

noriebooks's review against another edition

3.75

mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Gaslighting

Minor: Infidelity, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail

autumnrevisited's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Self harm, Murder, Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Classism

annegrenier_'s review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

sonjaelisee's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A bit of the social commentary at the end felt rushed, but overall I really enjoyed this book. As someone who reads a lot of thrillers, I was expecting it to go in a totally different direction. But the ending was satisfying, the reveals were realistic and made sense within the story, and most of my questions were answered by the end. This one is for the girls. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Child death, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol

cowboylikestoread43's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Classism

jmdressel's review against another edition

4.25

mysterious medium-paced

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i enjoyed the time setting as well as the multiple perspectives. they way that the story was shared over time made the mystery last til the very end!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Stalking, Pregnancy

hmetwade's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

gwenswoons's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad tense slow-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

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This is very good, but I did not enjoy it. I think somehow the literary thriller thing veered into something so slow that it often felt preachy and pedantic, endless, often incredibly pretentious somehow. The writing is good: the setting is definitely captivating and vivid; the characters are compelling, even as they are basically all pretty awful. I guess for me a cast of totally awful characters (whether in books or TV shows) never feels satisfying — so I may simply not be the reader for this. But I will say that this book felt interminable to me, almost from the beginning (I definitely should have DNFed, but it’s gotten so much praise from people I trust that I expected it to turn around into something miraculous! It did not, for me). The pace is so unbelievably slow, the timelines and POVs so sprawling — these are things (even a slow pace!) that I actually usually love in a book, but that felt like such a drag here, I think because the motivations of every person aroused so little sympathy and investment. Certainly others may not feel this way.

I will say that I somehow loved the ending, and found it so beautiful, with such a light touch — odd after this book that felt so heavy-handed to me. It was absolutely not worth it for me but I somehow was still quite enchanted by it even as I was so ready to be done. So the writing is definitely remarkable in some way, even though for me this is not going to be a writer I return to again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

katrinky's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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this was such a good mystery! had a good balance of retribution and realism in the wrap-up. highly recommend as a read-in-one-day weekend book. tread carefully if child injury is triggering for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail