Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The September House by Carissa Orlando

38 reviews

heartofhorrors's review

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Murder, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Physical abuse, Vomit, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Torture, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

disguisedposer's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Blood, Violence, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide and Child abuse

mamawantsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

One sentence review: A wonderful haunted house story that shows us ghosts aren’t always the dead entities we think them as and the horrors can be in the every day lives we live. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Medical trauma, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Child death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Animal death, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Vomit

time_dabbler's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

kbergsten's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, and Mental illness

samiredden's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Vomit, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Blood, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicide

melanyjve's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

livlamentloathe's review

dark mysterious 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

I really enjoyed this! It reminded me a bit of A House with Good Bones. Similar levels of denial present in both protagonists, but beyond that, it was definitely a different sort of haunting…

Margaret is the best sort of Final Girl. Moral of the story? Don’t involve the cops.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Murder, Death, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Suicide

cait_henry56's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

3.75

This could have been so good. I tore through this book in two days, and maybe that is my fault for how annoyed I am after ending. The haunted house and the extended metaphor for familiar relationships was realistic, terrifying, and heartbreaking. But my suspension of belief cannot handle the motivations of Margaret and Katherine, why they were both so hellbent on the former not explaining about the house, and the latter looking for Hal even after the shoe drops about him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Animal death, Vomit, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Child abuse

thegayestghost's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Child death, Blood, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Vomit, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Gaslighting, Gore, and Mental illness