Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

86 reviews

leahmaslin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Rape

honeycuttsp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Toxic relationship

archivofrances's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Animal death

Moderate: War, Sexual assault, and Forced institutionalization

jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

„What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.“

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal death and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal cruelty

I don’t know if I would be strong enough to resist ben barnes…

a_tiny_crow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: War, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Gore, and Alcohol

World building is great, but the characters are a little simplistic and tropey. Also I just can't take the Darkling seriously with a name like that. Like a 10-year-old's idea of a badass name for their online goth avatar.

allym's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gaslighting, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent

theirgracegrace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and War

katsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

“And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”

“Like calls to like.”

I had a lot of fun with this book. I legitimately read the whole thing in one day. The adventure was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the world-building. I would give adult readers the caveat that this is very much a young adult novel. I've seen quite a lot of reviews that dragged the book because the characters acted like young adults. For example, I've seen a few reviews that really disliked Alina because she really embodied the Not-Like-Other-Girls trope. Which is completely fair, because she definitely does, but the story is also told in the first person so, as someone who works with young adults, Alina feeling out of place and like she doesn't belong 100 percent rings true to me. This book also features the Chosen One trope which I enjoy a lot. One of my only actual critiques is that I wish we would have been able to get to know Mal a little bitter. As a reader, I cared about him because Alina did but it would've been to care for him as a character in his own right. I'm definitely going to pick up the next two volumes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, War, and Xenophobia

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

3,5 stars. This was cool. I think this is only the second YA fantasy series I’ve read this year/in a very long time (that isn’t Harry Potter or Percy Jackson) so I don’t trust myself enough to rate this five stars. I really enjoyed reading this though and I was gasping and making faces when things happened, so yeah pretty fun, but once again I’m not a fantasy person so I’m bumping down my original rating to fit that piece of knowledge 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, War, and Murder

safety_pin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The book is a hundred times better than the tv show!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Moderate: Abandonment, Colonisation, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Slavery