Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Wool by Hugh Howey

13 reviews

mardana's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Gun violence, Violence, War, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Death

sgrunwald96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

Incredibly interesting dystopian sci-fi. The twists and turns are surprising and clever and had me wanting more the entire time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, and Confinement

oddpilot97's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The concept is amazing. So engaging as a dystopian book lover.

But, can I get a shred of character development? Or anyone's motivation? The main male love interest is blander than a piece of wonderbread. I was sitting there begging to understand what his interests were, why he was taking the angle he was, or just a scrap of context for his actions. It never came. It was so bad that

when we thought he died in the fire, I thought to myself, "well, at least we won't have to keep trying to care about him for the next two books.

Same complaint for Juliette. I wanted to love her, but I needed more to get there. I watched the TV show first and felt similarly like the character was flat, but at least in the show, you can see facial expressions which add a speck of understanding of someone. The only character that I felt like I understood their motivation was the "crazy guy". He knew what he wanted and he was gonna stick with that.

I just didn't care about any of the characters. And when

the revolution started

and they were focusing on several different men from mechanical, I spent a long time going "Who is that guy and that guy and that guy? They are all different?" I had to look up a character chart to keep them separate. That part as a whole was boring, and I was just waiting through those chapters for it to flip back to the more interesting storyline.

I also felt like the "reveals" and "twists" were often way undersold in the book (I'm glad I watched the show first because they were so juicy there!) I think to have a proper twist, you first have the clearly set the expectations first. The reader can't go "holy cow, everything they knew was a lie!!" if we aren't sure about what they knew in the first place.

I know that was a good amount of criticism, but overall it was an enjoyable listen. It's no Hunger Games or Ready Player One, but it's worth a read if you're into the genre. And hey, maybe you like a little wiggle room with your characters to be able to use your imagination, so you'll really enjoy filling in the gaps yourself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence, Cursing, War, Classism, Death, Excrement, Suicide, Gun violence, Murder, and Blood

cat12345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Body horror, Cursing, Excrement, Infertility, Gore, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Police brutality, Child abuse, Incest, Stalking, and Bullying

esslesmcgee's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War, Violence, Gaslighting, Excrement, and Murder

rhgrimes's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Gaslighting, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Blood, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, War, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Animal death

scvqa's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Suicide, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and War

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Medical content and Child death

jessy4550's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Grief, Blood, Gaslighting, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Death, Death of parent, and Bullying

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Classism

emmagreenwood's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Genocide, Grief, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and War

Moderate: Infertility, Death of parent, and Child death

booksdogsandcoffee's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

An absolute dystopian masterpiece! 

This book feels like if you had an alternative universe where Katniss was from District 13 and the world above was unlivable. The district system instead was vertical inside a silo that housed humanity. And you have no idea what is outside. It literally felt like a mash up of Hunger Games, Divergent and the movie Kingsman. 

This book had me hooked from page one with needing to find out the mystery within and the world outside of the silo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Ableism