Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

316 reviews

hannahbanana0909's review

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Self harm, Body shaming, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Eating disorder

pipo's review

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

This book was so •for me•, I felt it had the exact same reflections and pattern recognitions as I do. 
It is not a book for most people, in fact, I’d expect most people to find it gross, meaningless, cringe (?). But oh did I enjoy being so seen by a woman I’ll never know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

ellascube's review

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

1.0

Not my type of book, I don’t really understand the point of it. I listened to the audiobook that the author reads, and I don’t think she was a very good reader so that made it worse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Body shaming

0leander's review against another edition

4.0

Don't go in blind like I did, take a good look at the warnings and know that they are there for a reason. 

The beginning of the book felt, at times, like reading an early 2010s Tumblr user's ed blog, calorie diary and all. This is of course only the starting point for some... interesting developments... but it's pretty intense nevertheless. Once you get through that, you're in for the WLW romance, mommy issues, and an interesting perspective on navigating queerness and politics from within an Orthodox Jewish family environment. 

Physically I was on a train while listening, but emotionally I was on a rollercoaster. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

uniquekorne's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Eating disorder

sammerp219's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Body shaming

newobhannah's review

challenging emotional funny reflective 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: Eating disorder, Body shaming, and Sexual content

atv14's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

0.25

It feels like fetishization. The MC has an eating disorder and “falls in love” with a fat woman, who is the exact person the mc does not want to be herself. Odd book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

amylfabry's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming

bibliogouine's review

dark funny 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

4.5

Loved this so much, its weird but not in an alienating way, darkly funny and sexy. Definite trigger warning for descriptions of eating disorders and bodies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Body shaming