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kaltain's review
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Vomit, and Alcohol
gabriellejane's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Infidelity and Vomit
Minor: Pregnancy
samarakroeger's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
I think fans of Conversations With Friends would eat this up (including me)
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
raniaa's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Fatphobia and Vomit
sleepburrito's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt
shrutislibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Just like the narrator of 'Rebecca', Mrs De Winter who is haunted by the ghost of the lingering Rebecca at Manderley, Lilja is threatened by the ever-present ghost of a girl online, the titular red-haired Magma - the object of her lover's desire, lust and undivided attention.
'Magma' is the story of a 20-year-old college girl named Lilja and her descent into a dark void to which she is inevitably drawn and can't resist until she falls. Until she has reached the end of this dark crevice and she has broken and shattered her very being.
The novella starts with Lilja's heady, whirlwind romance with a man she meets online while travelling in Central America
(whose age we don't get & he has crazy unimaginable fetishes) which quickly turns into a manipulative, co-dependent relationship in which she loses her identity, her dignity, her life and herself and from which she is unable to come out.
The short chapters read like fragmented diary entries by Lilja tracking her psychotic breakdown as we bear witness to her nagging suspicions of her lover's infidelity, her growing jealousy, her resentment, her overlooking the warning signs and disregarding the gaslighting, her denial in thinking she can somehow 'fix' him. Lilja feels lust, love, jealousy, obsession, anger, humiliation, rage, disappointment, denial, erasure and in the end a glimmer of hope amidst the darkness or so we are told. The author has painted a brutally raw picture of the twisted cycle of emotional & psychological dependency on the abuser to the point where Lilja is capable of seeing & acknowledging the gaslighting, the subtle violence and who he truly is but can't will herself to come out of that abuse. For Lilja, the abuse and the manipulation is the normality that defines the dynamic of her relationship.
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
A girl struggling with an extremely abusive and toxic relationship. She loses her identity, her dignity, her life and herself in this relationship from which she is unable to come out.ashleyann's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Physical abuse and Rape
Minor: Fatphobia and Abortion
mondovertigo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Body shaming and Eating disorder
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Pregnancy
abbie_'s review against another edition
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Rape, and Vomit
bibliothecolle's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Suicide attempt