Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

172 reviews

kmnva's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I hated everything about this and how scary it was. It definitely felt like the author was going for pure shock factor most of the time. So this was scary and disturbing and worst of all utterly predictable. The setup was slightly confusing enough to where there is an air of mystery until you understand how the characters are associated. Then I - who am usually awful at predicting - could tell where the entire story went. But I thought there is so much of the book left, there’s no way I’m going to be right about this. But no I was they just took a long and loquacious road to get there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Drug use, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Car accident, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Rape, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Trafficking, Violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Stalking

cupcakemama's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Addiction, Blood, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, Car accident, Gore, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Sexual violence

samantha_sahm_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Gore, Torture, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Fatphobia and Vomit

jcampos33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Rape, Emotional abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Body horror, Murder, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Grief, Addiction, Gore, Death, Stalking, and Blood

This book was incredibly heavy, violent and very explicit when describing the abuse. The scenes with murder and post mortem depravities were extremely graphic The story itself was also my worst nightmare

tinytacobookdragon's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

This book needs some trigger warnings if you are into that sort of thing. There are dark themes here and is the main drive of the story and characters. But the book had me hooked from the very beginning 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Rape

Moderate: Addiction, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide

mmcdonnell95's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Gore, and Rape

kdoornbos's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

The writing and plot were compelling enough to draw me in - enough that I felt I needed to finish it. However the gruesome descriptions of sadist rape and sexual torture made me queasy and gave me nightmares the first day after finishing (TBD if these persist). Even some of the plot towards the end is extremely disturbing and gruesome. Saw this in a “kindle unlimited” suggested and would not recommend to a lay reader unless you regularly read horror. No idea if the authors other books are similar but I won’t be finding out - this one crossed a line. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Drug abuse, Rape, Addiction, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Murder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Torture, and Violence

amyrrobertson's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

1.5

Gratuitous violence. Somehow made me feel both heavily disturbed and grossed out as well as numb to the entire story and all of the characters save for the journal entries of the grieving father. Do not recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Addiction, Confinement, Grief, Misogyny, Violence, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Trafficking, Body horror, Murder, and Gore

pitchspork's review against another edition

1.0

this book served as a reminder that men are the absolute worst and i do not enjoy reading about the horrific things they do/want to do to women

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Violence, Rape, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

gddog93'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This book was horrific, I loved it. Every single trigger warning, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Car accident, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction