Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

4 reviews

mellysay's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Violence, and Racism

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Eating disorder, Grief, Rape, Slavery, Infertility, and Sexism

andpeetaisthesun's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Racism, Rape, Violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Self harm, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

mirroball's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Murder, Racial slurs, and Sexual content

Minor: Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Infertility, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying

sehwa's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I don't really know how to review this book without spoiling it but I will try my best. 
I want to start by saying that I read this book in 2 days, super easy and enjoyable read, I wasn't bored when reading at all and I loved the main character, Kya. 
However by the end of the book, I felt like the author had started with this amazing idea about a girl who is abandoned to survive on her own and how her life goes with that but... Then she didn't plan the rest of the story, so she thought "how am I going to turn this concept in to a book?" so she threw a load of clichés at it. We have the good guy, we have the asshole guy. The caring sibling, a random murder case (which was ridiculous and not needed in the story at all) and then there is the ending. Which I found pretty predictable for many reason which I can't write. 
Kya was an amazing story to tell that I just don't feel the author paid the best tribute to by the end of the book. I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the second half. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail