Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

50 reviews

becca_w_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Medical content, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

Moderate: Abandonment, Incest, Child death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Vomit, and War

morepagesplease's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Imagine being a mortal trapped in the world of faeries.  Much darker and dangerous than I imagined.  This book has plots and scheming galore.  I loved it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Death of parent

Minor: Toxic relationship and Gaslighting

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death of parent, Death, Murder, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Kidnapping

vereadsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual harassment, Grief, Gaslighting, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Death, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Torture

amicamerlo's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Emotional abuse, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Grief, and Murder

lynnloveshobi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Death

Minor: War, Abandonment, Classism, Incest, and Colonisation

lupin92's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

This was an enormous disappointment. I was bored out of my mind while doing my best to finish it, but I couldn't do it.
The writing is horrendous... I got angrier as I read on, and when I got to the last 50ish pages, I refused to carry on, because I couldn't bring myself to care one bit. It wasn't that it was even mediocre; the whole book felt pointless to me.

There was absolutely no substance to it whatsoever. There was no world building, no character growth, no interesting writing, no nothing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

The writing is horrendous... There was absolutely no substance to it whatsoever.. Just don't read it

gabi_w21's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

DNF’ed around 15%. But with Jude acting like a stubborn idiot despite knowing it could get her seriously injured and Cardan not having any redeemable qualities, I gave up. Jude seemed much more concerned about if her sister slept with someone and ogling Cerdsn than anything. It wasn’t “enemies to lovers,” to me. Cardan and his buddies were just sociopathic abusers to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Child abuse, and Gaslighting

balluna's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

Words can't describe how much I love this book.

And there are so many plottwists, holy

The ending is absolutely stunning and HAS to be one of my favourite endings ever

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Murder, Violence, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Gore, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Child death, War, and Abortion

delle_frenchtxt's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious reflective

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

3.75

You need quite a few chapters to get into it (the narrator is quite immature) but once the plot is unfolding you ll get hooked. Idk why exactly but I feel like the vibes are similar to the ones of Percy Jackson if you ve read that as a teen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Racism, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Slavery, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Deportation, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Infidelity, Hate crime, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Death