Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick

9 reviews

hazelsnoot's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual content

adrianas65's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Medical trauma, and Grief

Moderate: Outing, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

thehomiemona's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol

bek_p87's review

emotional inspiring fast-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

4.5

This was a beautiful, realistic love story, set within the unlikely scenario of an amnestic teenager forgetting her two year relationship with her girlfriend. The tension and fears were real, and the ending was poignant.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Homophobia, Racism, and Child abuse

bg_oseman_fan's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

This book plays with the amnesia trope in a way that is very unique. I love how Stevie’s pov is written. Ultimately, some of the relationships between Stevie and her friends seem a little off, and too many characters seem really flat, and developments seem to be pushed along regardless of whether the groundwork for them had really been laid. It is a good story about the power of tenacity and love to change your world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, and Cursing

sleepyshelves's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Homophobia, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse and Racism

midnightbelles's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

Im literally in tears. This is the book little teenage me needed but adult me is so grateful to have. I can’t explain how much I connected with this story and just how much knowing something like this exists for young teens like Stevie comforts me. This is a perfectly cheesy, heartbreaking, and sweet novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Homophobia, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Medical content, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual content

nicoleanthony's review

emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Violence, Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

booksdogsandcoffee's review

emotional fast-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

4.0

Thank you Simon teen for an arc in exchange for an honest review!

Perfect for anyone who loved the movie The Vow, but make it sapphic and with young adults. 

Imagine living in a small conservative town, hiding a secret relationship with the girl of your dreams for two year, then with the help of a freak accident forgetting it all. Stevie forgets the past two years of her life and has a clean slate after falling into a ravine during a secret rendezvous with her girlfriend Nora. 

With a clean slate what will the people Stevie thinks she is closest to most in her life do? And more importantly what will Nora do now that the love of her life doesn’t even know who she is. 

Alyson Derrick masterfully weaves a story of love, figuring out your sexuality, realizing your parents are human and seizing what you want most in this world. 

Cw
Racism
Homophobia
Child abuse
Gaslighting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Homophobia