Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao

22 reviews

vagaybond's review

challenging emotional reflective tense

• Strong character development? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Classism, Cancer, Body shaming, and Sexism

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Homophobia, Excrement, Misogyny, Medical content, and Violence

courtnoodles's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexism, Misogyny, Abandonment, Bullying, Cancer, Terminal illness, Fatphobia, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol

ems_rxlibrary's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Fatphobia and Cancer

phua_jieying's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.75

On the one hand, I love the Chloe-Drew text conversations, and their dynamic is not too juvenile for this 34-year-old. On the other hand, it's painful to read how Chloe's parents kept wanting her to play the role they have decided for her (which is what I took the 0.25 stars off for).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Body shaming, Classism, and Fatphobia

Minor: Cancer

jackeline_cruz_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Classism, Emotional abuse, and Sexism

Minor: Body shaming, Homophobia, and Cancer

blackveilbeccy's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.75

This was a fantastic book and I loved both the main character and the love interest. The plot was a bit slow at times and I wasn’t a fan of the texting sections, but I did love the overall storyline. The villains of the piece were a little over the top. The parents of the main character, particularly the mother, were incredibly difficult to read due to the toxicity of the family dynamics -

I was so surprised every time she chose to keep her mother in her life rather than go no contact

as she was that bad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, Xenophobia, and Sexism

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Religious bigotry

Toxic family, estrangement, family dysfunction

romie_chat's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

I'm maybe repeating myself, but I truly adore Gloria Chao. she's able to create stories that make me both laugh and want to cry, to craft characters I can not only relate to but also sympathise with.

I'm not usually good at seeing what I read in my head (does that make sense?) but right from the beginning, I had such a vivid image of who Drew and Chloe were. I loved seeing them fight for what they deserve and what they love. but I also always appreciate how Gloria Chao talks about filial piety and how complicated it is to be both your own person and who your parents want you to be.

reading Rent a Boyfriend felt like watching a drama and gave me the exact same boost of serotonin. and also made me tear up quite a bit, but that's the beauty of it (4.22)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Terminal illness

lizziealex's review

emotional lighthearted 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

4.25

It’s not diverse in that all the characters are Asian. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Sexism

psistillreadyou's review

challenging emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Sexism

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Racism and Homophobia

The toxic relationships are child-parent relationships. Frequent purity culture rhetoric. Brief mentions of HP and book banning.

yeojinqueen's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol