Tag Archives: Dieting & Food Shaming

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of dieting and food shaming.

See also Eating disorders, Disordered food & weight thoughts, and Weight gain & loss.

The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon

When it comes to personal training, Taylor Powell kicks serious butt. Unfortunately, her bills are piling up, rent is due, and the money situation is dire. Taylor needs more than the support of her new best friends, Samiah and London. She needs a miracle. And Jamar Dixon might just be it. The oh-so-fine former footballer wants back into the NFL, and he wants Taylor to train him. There’s just one catch — no one can know what they’re doing. But when they’re accidentally outed as a couple, Taylor’s game plan is turned completely upside down. Is Jamar just playing to win . . . or is he playing for keeps?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Anxiety & panic attack
  • Dieting discussed
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Physical injury including sprained ankle & a previous sports injury (knee)
  • Hospitalisation of a grandparent (secondary character)
  • Grief & loss depiction and Survivor’s Guilt
  • Death of a friend in a motorcycle accident (off-page, discussed)

The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden

Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why—until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this—or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past? As he’s forced into a lethal dance across… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia and body-shaming
  • Classism
  • Attempted rape
  • Infidelity (on-page)
  • Discussions of domestic abuse and violence
  • Disordered eating & food thoughts including calorie counting and food shaming
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Infertility mentioned
  • Blood depiction
  • Emesis
  • Death of a mother from a stroke mentioned
  • Murder by gun & knife violence
  • Physical assault
  • Stalking
  • Incarceration for physical assault mentioned
  • Poverty & financial difficulties discussed

Context : The protagonist’s employee has her gigolo pretend to be an abusive, violent husband. This includes physical abuse, attempted strangulation, electronic monitoring, and food deprivation. Mentions of the protagonist working to free previous clients from domestic abuse situations, including murdering the abuser when necessary. Her neighbour attempts to rape her and she pushes him down the stairs. The police do not believe her and victim-blame. Her ex-boyfriend hides illegal drugs in his apartment in revenge, and her neighbour goes to jail for drug possession. The protagonist was in jail for assaulting her friend’s rapist because he died from his injuries. Wendy, the protagonist’s employer, also didn’t tell her real husband that she was could not get pregnant, even though he believed they were trying to have a child.

    The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier

    A Lord is to marry after he graduates from Barrington University, an elite college for the rich. A Lady’s job is to help him fit into a world unaware of his secret society. The Lord does not get to choose who he spends the rest of his life with. But there is always an exception to the rule. And I just so happen to be his. I was to wed a Lord of my parents’ choosing. Wealth can’t buy you everything, or I would have had freedom years ago. Instead, my strict parents made sure I lived a dull life in a mansion resembling a prison. But on my wedding day, I was handed over to another man-an even more ruthless Lord that my family hatred. Tyson… Read more.

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    Trigger and Content Warnings

    • Human trafficking
    • Fatphobia & body-shaming
    • Slut-shaming
    • Adult-minor relationship mentioned
    • Forced marriage
    • Parental infidelity
    • Rape & attempted rape
    • Intimate partner violence
    • Emotional & physical child abuse
    • Parent with alcoholism
    • Alcohol consumption
    • Drugging
    • Unplanned pregnancy due to reproductive assault and medical abuse
    • Involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation
    • Body modifications including branding and involuntary implantation of a tracker
    • Needles
    • Emesis
    • Dieting & weight loss recounted
    • Faked death of a pregnant sister and girlfriend recounted
    • Murder & attempted murder
    • Torture
    • Knife violence & stabbing
    • Physical assault
    • Kidnapping
    • Arson & immolation

    *Context : The female protagonist (FMC) is raped while sedated and involuntarily instituitionalised by a secondary character. The FMC’s fiancé intended to drug and rape her. The FMC’s doctor administers a hormone injection to aid with ovulation under the disguise of birth control; she becomes pregnant as a result. The FMC’s mother was married to a 23-year-old man when she was only 17-years-old. The MMC threatens to kill the FMC’s brother if she doesn’t marry him. The FMC’s father installed cameras without the FMC or MMC’s consent and watched them have sex.

    Will They or Won’t They by Ava Wilder

    Lilah Hunter and Shane McCarthy are madly in love— at least, their characters are. As the stars of the hit paranormal TV show Intangible, they spent years pining for each other on-screen… until Lilah ditched the show at the end of season five in hopes of becoming a film star. With no such luck, she’s back to film the much-hyped ninth and final season, in which their characters will get together at last. But coming back means facing one of the biggest reasons she left: Shane. Ever since their secret behind-the-scenes fling imploded at the end of the first season, the two of them have despised each other. Now back on set together for… Read more.

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    Trigger and Content Warnings

    • Divorce mentioned (sc)
    • Dieting mentioned
    • Panic attack, on-page
    • Generalised Anxiety Disorder
    • Parent with a substance addiction recounted

    Taking the Heat by Victoria Dahl

    All revved up for bright lights and steamy nights, writer Veronica Chandler chased her dreams to New York City. When she hit a dead end, reality sent her back home to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Saving her pride and her new gig—writing a relationship advice column!—requires some faking. No one can know the truth about her big-city flop or her nonexistent sex life. But the town’s irresistibly rugged librarian is determined to figure her out… and give her hands-on lessons in every wicked thing she wants to know. Gabe MacKenzie’s heart might be in Wyoming, but secretly his future’s tied up in his family’s Manhattan legacy. Getting down… Read more.

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    Trigger and Content Warnings

    • Ableism & internalised ableism
    • Heart attack mentioned
    • Death of a mother from cancer recounted
    • Dieting mentioned

    1:35AM by Scott Cawthorn, Andrea Waggener and Elley Cooper

    From twisted toys to gut-wrenching games, this collection of terrifying tales is unsettling enough to mess with even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy’s fans. In this volume, horror master Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of FNAF’s canon. Each story comes complete with accompanying artwork from a fan-favorite game artist to bring the horror to life in a whole new way. Readers beware: In this startling world, desperate wishes have an unexpected cost, beautiful trinkets reveal appalling powers, and harmless pranks can go awry in ghastly ways.

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    Trigger and Content Warnings

    • Ableism & ableist slurs
    • Parental abandonment recounted
    • Domestic abuse recounted
    • Foster care recounted
    • Insomnia
    • Dieting
    • Cancer
    • Murder
    • Death of a parent recounted

    Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee

    Meet Anna K. At seventeen, she is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and Newfoundland dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend, Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father proud (even if he can be a little controlling). Meanwhile, Anna’s brother, Steven, and his girlfriend, Lolly, are trying to weather a sexting scandal; Lolly’s little sister, Kimmie, is struggling to recalibrate to normal life after an injury derails her ice dancing career; and Steven’s best friend, Dustin, is madly (and one-sidedly) in love with Kimmie… Read more.

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    Trigger and Content Warnings

    • Racism
    • Fatmisia
    • Homomisia
    • Slut shaming
    • Cheating
    • Revenge porn
    • Depression
    • Suicidal ideation
    • Self harm mentioned
    • Dieting & weight discussed
    • Alcohol consumption
    • Drug use
    • Overdose
    • Miscarriage & abortion mentioned
    • Death of a parent mentioned
    • Fatal train accident
    • Car accident
    • Animal death (horse & dog)

    Only She Came Back by Margot Harrison

    On July 28 at 6:30 p.m., Kiri Dunsmore walks out of the desert wearing her boyfriend’s sweatshirt, covered in his blood. Dazed and on the verge of unconsciousness, she tells a cashier that he’s still out there and most likely dead. The disappearance of Callum Massey, a “survival guru” with hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers, rocks the nation. And Kiri is a prime suspect. Back in Kiri’s hometown, true-crime fanatic Sam   is completely hooked on the case—especially now that she recognizes the suspect as shy Katie from high school. Although they didn’t know each other well… Read more.

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    Trigger and Content Warnings

    • Fat-shaming mentioned
    • Emotional abuse
    • Domestic violence recounted
    • Dieting and disordered eating
    • Animal death (chicken), off-page

    Killers and Monsters by Clio Evans

    The dragon has come to claim his mafia wife, but I already belong to a knight. My shadow. The bodyguard whose world revolves around me. After ten years of the same routine, I discover that I’m not the woman I thought I was. I’m a killer. The daughter of a fierce god.
    As danger strikes, the three of us find that hate can become lust and enemies can become lovers. Our destiny has been written, and we are determined to change it—even if it means a battle against those who would rather see us stay apart.

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    Trigger and Content Warnings

    • Attempted rape
    • Paedophilia*
    • Forced marriage
    • Dieting mentioned
    • Alcohol consumption
    • Emesis
    • Death of a mother & father recounted
    • Murder & attempted murder
    • Physical assault
    • Stalking & non-consensual voyeurism

    *Context : One of the male protagonist becomes interested in the female protagonist when she was 17-years-old.

    K-Pop Revolution by Stephan Lee

    K-Pop Revolution by Stephan Lee

    She thought that debuting in a K-Pop band was the finish line, but it was only the beginning. Because now it’s not only Candace’s company judging her—it’s the entire world. How will she find the courage to stand by her beliefs, even when powerful forces are trying to shame and silence her. Her label, S.A.Y., promises to help make the sweeping changes for the industry to become a more humane and compassionate place for artists. But what will happen when the road to a record-breaking debut isn’t as smooth as they’d planned? When a rival girl group emerges to steal… Read more.

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    Trigger & Content Warnings

    • Disordered eating mentioned
    • Cyberbullying