Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Supper Club by Lara Williams

24 reviews

bwest6377's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Abandonment and Emotional abuse

angelasunshine's review against another edition

I was over 1/3 of the way in and still had no feelings about the characters or felt any investment in their story. I see that this book was compared to Sally Rooney's Normal People, which was another book I didn't really care for - so it's obviously just me and my personal reading preferences.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Self harm, Body shaming, and Alcoholism

heythisishilary's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Rape

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Vomit, and Eating disorder

Minor: Gaslighting and Body shaming

knikchevich's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Mental illness and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit and Abandonment

sineadw9's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense 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

3.25

Read it quickly and enjoyed most of it, feeling feels throughout. The themes felt very spelled-out , too much so in some parts. Author loves the word “languish”. It sort of felt like a better version of Conversations With Friends.

I struggled with the character’s relationship with her body—the descriptions of weight gain/fatness felt incomplete, like the author herself had never been larger than a size 8 and still has a lot of internalized fat phobia (I have no idea, fwiw). Her obsession with thinness made me tired.

The thread around female friendships, the push-and-pull of romantic vs platonic(ish) love, and the character seeking out moments of catharsis were what kept me engaged and invested. Worth a read, but didn’t quite meet my expectations.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Vomit, Fatphobia, Rape, and Sexual violence

filmnoirz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

there’s so much to say here and i’m not entirely sure how to put it into words. the author really tries to bring home the ‘feminist’ aspect of the supper club but it falls really flat, and acts as though it’s saying something profound about weight when it’s not. parts of this story really shine and speak to the yearning women have to feel full, but for the most part it’s just kind of insulting and dare i say boring? an interesting premise but poorly executed in my opinion

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Fatphobia

Minor: Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

evasophias's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Sexual harassment

sophmog's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Fatphobia

rrio's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-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

3.75

this took me way long to finish!!!!


5 stars for some of those sentences, ffuuuuck. i was about to start levitating. all those things about taking space, taking expectations and hopes of others and what society puts on you and existing for yourself (even through the trauma that takes you to crawl into the edges of other people’s shadows and taking all of their hurt and grief and anger and mirroring it on yourself.)

i could have just read those parts over and over. definitely altered some brain chemistries there

yes the mc might not be doing nice things but what happened to understanding that characters can be humane and therefore sometimes insufferable and feeling and fearful and driven by their trauma and past? lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, and Self harm

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Vomit

ladynavalon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Varias cosas sobre este libro:
1) sí, me ha gustado, es una lectura que me ha absorbido, pero eso no significa que sea un libro que me parezca buena o que recomendaría.
2) un libro no es feminista solo porque aparezcan mujeres haciendo cosas que normalmente no hacen las mujeres en los libros, en este caso, comer, drogarse y dañar la propiedad ajena. Mucho menos es feminista con las relaciones disfuncionales de las integrantes del club.
3) mención aparte merece la relación tóxica de Roberta con Stevie y con cualquier persona que la rodee, en realidad. 
4) lo del club es secundario, no acaba de explicarse, de entenderse, de tener un cometido. 
5) este libro va en realidad de Roberta, que tiene trauma pro el abandono de su padre y no sabe relacionarse con la gente, no sabe entablar relaciones ni expresar sus sentimientos, así que hace lo que mucha gente, acallar sus sentimientos con comida y desarrollar un tca. Se arrastra por relaciones con chicos que ni le gustan y ni la tratan bien, todo por castigarse por el sentido de culpabilidad que siente con su padre. Sigue obsesionada con su aspecto ficio y su quilos de más mientras sigue dándose atracones, eso es un TCA. Cambia de personalidad para encajar con quien sea, una amiga, una compañera de trabajo o un novio. Y en ningún momento recibe la atención psicológica que merece.
6) Stevie es despreciable, pero aún así la autora es incapaz de contar por qué todo el mundo la desprecia y por qué Roberta y ella se hacen amigas, la sensación es que nadie más las aguanta. Se enfadan sin razón, sin hablar y lo arreglan todos por qué si.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Infertility, Gore, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexism, Dysphoria, Bullying, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Cannibalism, Addiction, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Rape, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Drug use