Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

469 reviews

bobbeym's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Gaslighting

Minor: Bullying

mkzach's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

patato's review against another edition

dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

2.75

This book has good smut, an awesome group of friends, feels realistic when it comes to their shenanigans, funny at times and has some representation, which is important and welcomed. I was willing to bump up the rating up to a three since despite the way the book dragged on and on, as it was still well written and fun, but I hated how

she went back to accept Aaron as her work partner and even go therapy with him, setting herself back to that toxic environment, when it was clear that he wouldn't and didn't want to change either. He went to the point of triggering an ED on her and that shouldn't be taken lightly. She clearly had self-esteem issues and that rascisistic pos wouldn't help her recover the more therapy she did.

So this did turn me off and from there I basically just skimmed through to see how it would end, because I got bored and didn't want to have to read about her dealing with Aaron anymore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Body shaming

Minor: Death and Alcohol

sldibened's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

Entertaining and an easy read. Only qualm is there are a lottttt of characters which made it confusing and tricky to follow at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Pregnancy

emmasmidnightlibrary's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Sexism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Sexual content

jwigginton's review against another edition

funny hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

flying_booke's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Eating disorder

Moderate: Gaslighting and Alcohol

Minor: Pregnancy

annabelleg's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting

nika_nix's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

2.5

If at least 100 pages of sex and partying were cut out, maybe this could've been a decent romance. There were actually some interesting plotpoints and the love interest was not toxic at all, which is probably the reason I actually finished this one. It feels very juvenile and I'm obviously too old to read college romances, even though I'm only 25. 

Also, I hated the epilogue so much, I don't understand why romance authors think this always has to be a happily ever after, even when the character actually expressed they don't want it earlier in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Cancer, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

svthebz's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.5

I could not get past the fact that the main character acted and sounded like a young teenage girl and kept having to remind myself that they were, in fact, in college. Kinda gave me the ick. Some of the sentence structure had me re-reading a couple times to understand what was being said. Not a plot line in sight. Just stuff happening and Aaron being a complete narcissistic and manipulative prick. Also, it reminds me to take TikTok book recommendations with a very tiny grain of salt. I imagine the vast demographic aimed for this book is for a younger crowd embarking on a spicy reading journey. It certainly is, and how it begins comes quite literally out of *nowhere*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Fatphobia