Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

40 reviews

readingwithtemperance's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

Ben and I are so much alike. Both just genderless queers riddled with far too much anxiety. I loved reading about them. 

This was like a big hug for my 16 year old self. I can't wait to read more from Mason!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Panic attacks/disorders

finiteworlds's review

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Mental illness, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Gaslighting

book opens with a coming out scene that ends with protagonist being kicked out

robyn_fenix's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Deadnaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Abandonment

Moderate: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Dysphoria

Minor: Gaslighting, Outing, and Bullying

ghostlyprince's review

emotional funny reflective slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, Abandonment, Homophobia, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Religious bigotry, and Stalking

Minor: Gaslighting and Physical abuse

sky_lar's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Transphobia

Moderate: Homophobia, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

fcksnotfound's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Deadnaming and Misogyny

roxanned's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.25

Ben De Backer's story is necessary and important. It is also emotional and beautiful. 

In this book important topics

like identity, sexuality, family, therapy, anxiety and how to recover from a terrible event

are addressed respectfully and in a way everyone can understand them. It is about

what it means to be nonbinary, people being different than expected and different types of love (among other things)

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I'm not nonbinary so it's not my place to say something about the quality of Ben's representation. The intentional imperfect portrait of their support system seems realistic though. Hannah, Thomas and Nathan are trying their best but also make mistakes

with pronouns and other gendered words

. It is one of the possible situations that could happen in real life.

Deaver calls attention to things that make Ben uncomfortable

like gendered clothing, gendered toiletries, coming out

, which shouldn't be an issue in modern society but they still are. Thus, the book invites reflection and discussion.

Overall a cute and meaningful story, that isn't romance heavy but has a lot to do with love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Abandonment, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Pregnancy, Outing, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

dannothedino's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Body shaming, and Outing

Moderate: Alcohol

torispring's review

emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Transphobia

Moderate: Homophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Child abuse and Islamophobia

jodierose14's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Transphobia