Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner

12 reviews

elle_laine's review

lighthearted mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Body shaming

Moderate: Sexual content, Murder, and Bullying

jamiejanae_6's review

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Classism, Death, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

kinga1204's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death of parent, Infidelity, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

silvani's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

2.5

I didn't enjoy this book. The pacing was odd and there was a lot of flashbacks to the main character's trauma surrounding fatphobia and ED. I felt that the relationships were rushed as well, the main character immediately trusted the romantic interest despite having very little reason to do so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Murder, and Sexual content

internationalreads's review

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Murder, Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, and Fatphobia

katherine_alexis's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Murder and Body shaming

Minor: Abortion, Animal cruelty, and Xenophobia

jmariedep's review

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

readergonewilde's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

caribbeangirlreading's review

challenging emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.5

WARNING:  This book is best read poolside, preferably while enjoying a frozen adult beverage. 

 

SYNOPSIS - Daphne Berg is a plus-size Instagrammer.  She’s not much of an influencer, but she does OK.  In high school she used to be “friends” with Drue Cavanaugh, the school’s Queen Bee.  You know the kind – gorgeous, thin, rich, and very, very mean.  Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Drue comes back into Daphne’s life, to ask her to be a bridesmaid at her Cape Cod wedding. Daphne says yes. 

 

Big Summer starts out as a women’s fiction book about social media, toxic friendships, and body image issues.  Then at page 171 the author dropped a plot twist that came out of left field and basically changed the genre of the book.  What happens next is implausible, and totally ridiculous.  And I enjoyed every minute of it.  I gasped.  I laughed out loud.  I cheered for Daphne.  What I did not do, was take this book seriously.  But you know, in a world full of kale salads, every once in a while, we need to enjoy dessert, guilt free.  In fact, Daphne would insist you do.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion

liz_ann's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

While not my favorite, there was a lot in this story that I related to - mean girls, plus-size figures, owning your body, etc. I listed to the audio of this book, and enjoyed the voice actress. I will say that I didn't actually read too much of the description of the book before starting to listen to it, so I wasn't entirely sure what it was going to be about, but I enjoyed the turn of events (very unexpected for me) and the mystery that came out of this book. Overall, fun summer read/listen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Body shaming

Moderate: Cursing