Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

1 review

butyougotmysoul's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

This book was supplied to me as an ARC from Netgalley.  

I'm of two minds with this book.  I feel like it relies on some tropes that I really didn't appreciate such as mental health being to blame for severe character flaws,

but then that turns around in the last two-ish chapters.  For me as a reader with mental health issues I would have liked to see some other explanation.

  I don't know.  Maybe with time this book will grow on me, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.  The casual fatphobia littered throughout also did not do this book any favors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Violence