Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

50 reviews

soshereads_'s review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Infidelity, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Classism, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Abandonment, Sexism, Medical content, and Car accident

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Body shaming

daringreader13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Alcohol, Mental illness, Death, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Abortion, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

zulliekinz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

My first Taylor Jenkins Reid - and what a fantastic book to pop my cherry. Couldn't put it down and was engrossed in how quickly TJR made every character so real and authentic. I loved the pace of us experiencing just one whole day and the inserts of the past felt so well placed within this telling of the story. 

My only gripe was somehow how neatly tied up and finished it all was... It just felt a little too much like a neat bow around what was an incredibly messy package just moments before. Seemed unecessary for things to be that neat, and sadly unrealistic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Drug use

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Minor: Body shaming

estefizaga's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, and Infidelity

meaghanslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

Book doesn’t have the same spunk of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s other books. It’s pretty good but just not great. I do appreciate the Easter eggs that are not too early or books. It makes me feel like I am a part of a secret circle. I thought the book was clever yet at the same time little predictable. I was clever because of the fact that it took over span of 24 hours. They booked out with some harsh themes from alcoholism to cheating to what it means to be a good person. It definitely made me think but by the end of the book I was ready for it to be over  where is the authors other books 
I didn’t want them to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Grief, and Infidelity

Moderate: Cursing, Addiction, Body shaming, Car accident, and Classism

Minor: Abortion, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

creativelifeofliz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

The first half of this book was pretty terrible and I actually thought about DNFing it several times. It got better for the second half, as long as you accept that there aren't any actually likeable characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Classism, Drug use, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Car accident, Bullying, Body shaming, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

ptitirodactyle's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Police brutality, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Infidelity, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Car accident, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Pregnancy, and Blood

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? Yes

3.75

men are terrible lol.
i most enjoyed the plots concerning the core four siblings and, later, their plus-one. you'd think they be the majority of the plot, but there are a lot of subplots that have little-to-no bearing on the main storyline, and i understand wanting to make this gigantic party with all these interesting people feel more alive, but after a while i stopped caring and just wanted to skip to the Rivas. it was overall pretty good though
book cover discussion: the British one is so much better than that of the United States, like the pretty sunset/fire (👀) colors, the serif font. unfortunately it doesn't carry over perfectly to the square aspect ratio for the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Blood, Violence, Child abuse, Cursing, and Death

Minor: Body shaming, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Vomit, Car accident, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Police brutality

eviecanactuallyread's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective slow-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death of parent, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Body shaming

abbrillopezz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Abortion, Ableism, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Child abuse, Misogyny, Mental illness, Classism, and Alcohol