Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Supper Club by Lara Williams

59 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

ec_holland's review

challenging 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

4.5

“What do you actually want from your life?”

This is one of those books that feels like it was written for me. 

For all the girls who had a breakup with a best friend that you thought was your better half. For all the girls who survived their abusers. For all the girls who survived and still lost themselves. For those who know loneliness like an intimate partner. For all those girls who never found a way to connect their mind to their bodies. 

For all those girls who just yearn for a community of other women, but have never fit in and are always left outside the intimacy - but don’t understand why.

This made my heart twist and was a dense amount of sadness, but also enough hope to keep moving through.

Ouch and wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Eating disorder, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Adult/minor relationship

micah_celeste's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Eating disorder

inkspitter's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Violence, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

abbysnofun's review against another edition

4.0

you are a mammal !! reclaim your appetite !! the shape of your body is the least interesting thing about you !!

i really did love this book but i just wanted a more extravagant ending. if you like descriptions of food that are borderline horny this is the one. 

i hate you arnold you know what you did

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Eating disorder, and Self harm

brolston's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

3.5

I wanted more supper club and less toxic relationships. Beautiful prose, but a little drawn out. Justice for Adnan. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Eating disorder, and Self harm

heythisishilary's review

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

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

lisa00's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.0

intrigerend idee, maar blijft oppervlakkig. de beschrijvingen van maaltijden zijn tien keer uitgebreider dan deze van de relaties tussen personages. dit voelde als een gemiste kans, want er waren mooie momenten, vooral wanneer de meiden samenkwamen in de Supper Club en hun motivaties/angsten/losgaan beschreven werd. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Eating disorder

sineadw9's review

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