Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

39 reviews

g4bby's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

thyroyalreader's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Racism, Self harm, and Medical trauma

bookbitch111's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I went into this book with no knowledge of the plot or characters. Ultimately, I love this book. It has a poetic, sometimes choppy format. Something so simple - a girl has an accident she cannot remember, is turned so deep and dark. We Were Liars has an unreliable narrator, and the details she throws the readers seem out of place at first. The book wraps quickly with a dark plot twist - all of those random details make sense. You begin to understand the false security, the warped reality our main character is buried deep under. This book shows how ugly and shallow people can be, how your consequences have actions. I finished We Were Liars with hot tears on my face. In the few days since I concluded the read, I have been haunted and disturbed by the tragedy of these characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal death and Gaslighting

emilyellen07's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Dementia

lucys_library's review against another edition

mysterious sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

becca_w_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, and Toxic relationship

farren_doubell's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

oh it's so sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Self harm, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse, Dementia, and Religious bigotry

agnes_reads's review against another edition

Because the book was very confusing to understand and the characters were annoying. And nothing made sense I had to read a page like 5 times to understand anything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

katherineroseamber's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

star_witch's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.0

This book started out ok. Then I reached the end and it was bad. Like really bad. I felt like it came out of nowhere, nothing in the whole book led up to that ending. It was unsatisfying and was only there for shock value. And it didn't even shock me. 
There is only one POC character and even though the racism he experiences is brought up, it isn't actually explore very well. 
Also mental illness was used as a plot device.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting