Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

11 reviews

_ren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Grief, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Confinement, Murder, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Trafficking, Torture, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Vomit, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

ceeess's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.5

Good job dealing with trauma and a kid dealing with being gaslit. I'm intrigued.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Animal death

Minor: Excrement, Gore, and Medical content

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Child death, and Child abuse

littleflowerfairy's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Grief, Confinement, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Toxic relationship is in reference to a familial relationship. Also, in case there's anyone else out there that also gets freaked out by foreign objects going into someone's facial orifices,

there is a scene toward the end of the book where spectral bees are flying into Meg's nose, mouth, ears and tear ducts. Then a bit later in the chapter, they go into Apollo, and he says he can feel them ricocheting around his respiratory system. Meg's description is only one sentence, while Apollo's is few more lines.

marenm's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

as an avid enjoyer of the percy jackson and the olympians series, i’ve found ToA to be very juvenile. i get its middle grade but so is olympians and it never felt so…cringe? there’s just some pretty stupid jokes in there that makes it hard to get through. i also think the names of their monsters tend to be much more complicated than the og series and it makes it hard to keep straight. i did find some of the backstories pretty interesting and there were definitely some charming moments in the book. overall, the book didn’t make a super large impression on me and i probably won’t be thinking about it in the future. i bought the whole series already though so i will be continuing :) 
3/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Body shaming, and War

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Murder, and Terminal illness

Minor: Gun violence

lastcomment314's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

After what I thought was a bit of a rocky start to the series in the first installment, I think the characters really come into their own here. Apollo is still Apollo, but he's more endearing now, and is learning to think about others besides himself, even if some things about him never change. The supporting cast is also larger, and features a few more familiar faces from Riordan's previous books, which never hurts for a long-time reader like me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Animal death, and Child abuse

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

Much better

You see minor improvements of Apollo’s character by the end of the first book but he gets much better in this one. It was nice to see Leo again! I love his humor. This book was exciting and dark and everything in between. I hope this isn’t the last we see of the Waystation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Moderate: Excrement, Gaslighting, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

yunathealien's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.5

This book was much better than the first one! I really liked the exploration of queer identity, trauma and child abuse.
It definitely feels more serious than the series before, because of the topics it's talking about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Violence

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.5

4,5 because there were too many references for me. I don’t like the way Apollo talks but whatever I like these stories. I did love the character development and the way all these backstories made me cry more than any other sad book I’ve read this year (besides heartstopper 4 that one was bad(in the made me cry too much sense)). I LOVE that Meg summoned

Grover

since he was one of my favorite characters in the PJO series! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting