Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

24 reviews

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

nicole_thereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

booksalacarte's review

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

roget's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

 Many, many, many years ago, Longinus wrote about this sort of literary experience when he said, "For, as if instinctively, our soul is uplifted by the true sublime; it takes a proud flight, and is filled with joy and vaunting, as though it had itself produced what it has heard" ("On the Sublime").

He described the sublime as "the echo of greatness of spirit." To me, sublimity is, in essence, moving, wondrous, transcendent, lightning strikes of awe into our feeble, human hands. It is the rush of sensation that follows one's spirit rising and gasping in proof of a larger, greater song.

I wax poetic because this book much deserves it. It is the sublime.
I read 160 novels this year. This was the best one.

Thank you, Rebecca.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcoholism and Terminal illness

There isn't a school shooting, but there is a

mass shooting that happens around the main characters, though neither of them die

. The content leading up to this point makes it clear what's going to happen, so there is plenty of warning.