Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

39 reviews

kstericker's review

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Eating disorder

sallytumbler13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Classism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Medical content, Police brutality, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, and Violence

tomnoor's review against another edition

3.5

Slow build with a really unlikeable main character. Didn’t love the Instalove or really the love interest at all, it felt like as soon as he was introduced Tally stopped caring about her friend Shay at all. Hoping for more critique of the Pretty surgery in the next book bc this book didn’t really critique why those beauty standards were harmful in and of themselves, Tally only became anti surgery when it turned out being pretty also included a brain surgery to make you compliant with the distopian government.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Death of parent and Medical content

valpyre's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

i first read this in high school and had an urge to do a reread of the series recently. i think it still holds up pretty well. the rampant eco-fascism and other controlling aspects of the futuristic society are still pretty chilling. i also had a weird feeling that the book was moving too fast and too slow at the same time, but maybe that's because i already had a vague recollection of plot points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Death

Minor: Eating disorder

froggydanny's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Concept was interesting, but I just wanted more. More world building, more character development. Felt very surface level, and I wanted a richer story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Eating disorder

k_galloway's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Self harm, and Sexism

dayniw's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Police brutality, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Animal death

theliteratewalrus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Violence and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexual content

jessicohen15's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The world building is unreal here. Cannot wait to read the next book.

it’s definitely heartbreaking to hear about the lesions but the depth it brings to the story is breathtaking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Bullying, Confinement, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Classism, and Death

larvapuppy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Grief, Medical content, Murder, and Death of parent