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Big Fat Disaster
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ARC for review.
I was really impressed by this - Fehlbaum captured the voice and the angst of a teenage girl pushed to the absolute limit. Colby Denton is the overweight (and thank you for making her ACTUALLY overweight. It's disturbing to read stories about "overweight" teenage girls who weigh 140 pounds) middle daughter in a family of a career politician (and later, criminal), his phony wife and two perfect sisters. An avalanche of misfortune falls on Colby (and her family-well, "misfortune" would seem to indicate that some of them did not bring it upon themselves) and her struggles will speak to children who have been bullied for any reason (the events are a bit over the top, I suppose and I wish that a few fewer characters, especially the adults, thought that bad behaviors were OK, but will hold attention).
Edited to add: Since this was an ARC I was curious to see some of the other reviews for this. A number of good ratings, but some scathing ones, generally using the word "trigger". I'm curious as to whether that means it was a trigger for an individual reader or the reviewers wanted everyone to avoid the book.
I was really impressed by this - Fehlbaum captured the voice and the angst of a teenage girl pushed to the absolute limit. Colby Denton is the overweight (and thank you for making her ACTUALLY overweight. It's disturbing to read stories about "overweight" teenage girls who weigh 140 pounds) middle daughter in a family of a career politician (and later, criminal), his phony wife and two perfect sisters. An avalanche of misfortune falls on Colby (and her family-well, "misfortune" would seem to indicate that some of them did not bring it upon themselves) and her struggles will speak to children who have been bullied for any reason (the events are a bit over the top, I suppose and I wish that a few fewer characters, especially the adults, thought that bad behaviors were OK, but will hold attention).
Edited to add: Since this was an ARC I was curious to see some of the other reviews for this. A number of good ratings, but some scathing ones, generally using the word "trigger". I'm curious as to whether that means it was a trigger for an individual reader or the reviewers wanted everyone to avoid the book.
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December 30, 2013
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December 30, 2013
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December 30, 2013
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young-adult
December 30, 2013
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January 6, 2014
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January 9, 2014
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Jan 08, 2014 11:39PM
I know what you mean--I was really disgusted when in the book The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things the protagonist went to a doctor who told her she was overweight but not obese, after we spent the whole book hearing how she was soooo fat that people stared at her all the time. It seemed like having a main character who was actually obese (like many, many teenage girls) would just be too much. Re triggers, as someone with sensitivity to a couple of triggers, I take it as shorthand for "if you think you don't want to read this book, you probably don't". I don't think I see reviewers using "trigger" to suggest that no one should read a book, or that it shouldn't have been published, or whatever.
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