Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

4 reviews

luvkillzall's review against another edition

i genuinely cannot stand the way the boys talk about the girls, the male gaze in this book is just too gross for me to read rn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Child death, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

phillyhufflepunk's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I cried...but not from sadness. I cried in frustration. This is one of the starkest tragedies ever written, told from the perspective of selfish, inane narrators - under the delusion that they are somehow a part of the story. With each new development, they...and the self-involved upper middle class d bags that they spawned from...fail the Lisbon girls. Over and over and over, the community has opportunity to step in, but they don't. As these boys chronicle the downward spiral of their Manic Pixie Dream Girls, they continuously miss the moments in which they actually could have saved them.

The boys literally run out of the house after finding one of the girls dead without checking on any of the others, in spite of the fact that they were there to save them in the first place AND that they were about to let Lux do one or all of them just 10 minutes earlier.

 The Lisbon Girls deserved better, and although the story would have been 10x better from their perspectives, I still rate it 4 stars because by hearing the story from a bunch of clueless middle aged men, who were clueless teenaged boys, you see just how ignored these girls felt when they were practically SCREAMING for help.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Racism, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Classism, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

books4em's review against another edition

This book needs so many trigger warnings it's insane.  I thought I could handle it, but not going to happen at least at this point in my life. The warnings below are only from the first 40 pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Child death, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Ableism, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse and Body shaming

laurelj's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

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