Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

7 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Such a strange story! Oddly (appropriately) enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Confinement, Child death, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Death, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Body shaming, and Death of parent

juliusclearance's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This is one of those books that is incredible but I’ll never read again. I cried at the end. It was so compelling. I couldn’t read it for more than fifteen minutes at a time or I knew it would ruin me. It did anyway. I cried again when I talked about it in bookclub. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

Minor: Body shaming, Alcohol, and Eating disorder

nanadalmatian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Abandonment, Animal death, Classism, Violence, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal cruelty, and Child death

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism

Minor: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

wormgirl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Child death, Classism, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Body shaming, Pregnancy, Grief, and Car accident

alyxinthestars's review against another edition

reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Moderate: Body shaming and Animal death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism, Classism, and Car accident

rmperezpadilla's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Animal death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Drug use, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Vomit and Cancer

Deals frequently with not only

animal>/spoiler> death but also

extinction of various species.

dominika_benmichael's review

dark hopeful tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, Body shaming, Car accident, Child death, and Eating disorder