Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

14 reviews

kiaras's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

4.0

A truly excellent cabbage cart reference/joke. Tonally out of place? Yes. Enjoyed it anyway? ALSO YES. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

monicajaylynn's review

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Emotional abuse, War, Violence, and Gaslighting

ksilverland's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-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

A wonderful , heart wrenching read. To be so seen and reminded that we are loveable, even if we've had to do the worst things to survive. As the forward says, this book is for the kids who survived, and loves them so much.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Medical content

kodiex's review

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Violence, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Child death, and Animal death

hckilgour's review

slow-paced

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

2.0

I just didn’t really connect with the characters and I found the story to just take so long. 

As far as Garlan and Aramis went, they just felt flat to me. Percy was better characterized and he was a size character.

I did like that Ranka didn’t end up falling in love with Garlan like I originally expected. And I like that Garlan was the smaller, more fragile person compared to Ranka’s 6’2” body of muscle.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Minor: Animal death and Physical abuse

victoriousbookworm's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gaslighting, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent

linnea1801's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

This book is sooo good!!!! It’s a story about overcoming abuse and trauma, it’s beautifully written and it’s gay so it’s a ten out of ten in my books. Also I just want to give Ranka a hug, she deserves it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Genocide, Hate crime, and Pandemic/Epidemic

immovabletype's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Child abuse, Animal death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Bullying, and Classism

Minor: Medical content and Alcohol

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was so much better than I could’ve imagined. I went into completely blind and fell in love! I am going to have a massive book hangover after. 

I am only left with one question? How is the Sunra line going to continue if both siblings are gay? I mean yeah adoption but that could be a lot of political unrest. 

This book in three words is Queer, Zombie, Betrayal. It has enemies, to friends, to lovers, to enemies, to lovers and just classic friends to lovers. 

The writing is so wonderful my only critique is it uses the phrase “bile rose to her throat” and others like that far too many times. Other than that it had so many fabulous quotes that just hit you to your core, my favorite being, “You useless lesbian.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Vomit, War, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Confinement, and Cursing

Minor: Cannibalism