Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

51 reviews

oddlyartless's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Rape, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Slavery

Minor: Vomit and Death of parent

Narrator/POV is a sentient sexbot

emilienicolia's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement and Vomit

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

4.5

This was a short one but it felt like it held a lot of weight. Not that it was terribly emotional in nature, but it felt emotional for me. Everything about the dynamic between Annie and her owner / "boyfriend" Doug made me feel really ill and I suppose that was the point. I also think you were supposed to empathize with him at points, but I really didn't. The feelings I felt just made my chest ache and I think that's the mark of excellent storytelling.

I also just really enjoyed that this was accessible sci-fi. the world is not overly complicated, and in fact very similar to our current world, but with human like robots you can buy if you're ridiculously rich. it wasn't hard to buy or to follow and I appreciated that a lot because a lot of what makes me not a sci-fi person is that I feel it can feel inaccessible to me as a genre.

The only thing missing for me is that it felt like there was a lot of time skips in the book and telling me what went on during the time period instead of showing me and I generally don't love when authors tell me things instead of showing me them. All in all though, great read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Vomit, Slavery, Trafficking, Infidelity, Body shaming, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Rape

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Death of parent

juanat77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Rape, Bullying, Confinement, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexism, Alcohol, Body shaming, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Cancer

jmherms's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Body shaming, and Domestic abuse

candicenicole's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

gidgetdraws's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Misogyny, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

_morgueann's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

Doug - a 30-something still bitter from a divorce with trust issues - designed Annie to be the perfect girlfriend. Annie is a custom bot fitting his specifications and programmed to always want to please him. Of course (eyeroll), Doug is not a monster, which is why Annie is an autodidact AI which allows her to learn and grow past her initial "cuddle bunny" protocols. As Annie develops a sense of self, Doug's control is challenged. Sierra Greer uses the concept of sentiment AI to explore the dynamics of abuse, gaslighting, narcissism, ownership and autonomy. Strong trigger warning for abuse! Excellent audiobook with spot on narration. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

katbalts's review against another edition

reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.0

For how many books Annie Bot winds up reading, I really wish she had picked up gone girl or something. Like girl just kill him. 
Not what I wanted the story to be about, and lots of loose ends. Lots of “what ever happened with that” and “why wasn’t that pursued narratively” moments. Hard not to compare it to ex machina imo and ex machina does a lot of the themes in a more interesting way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Confinement, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexism, Domestic abuse, and Gaslighting

pbg_reader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse