Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

6 reviews

priscillarobock's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Body horror, Child death, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Gore, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Sexism

cephalopodbot's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Misogyny, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Kidnapping, Body horror, and Torture

cover2covertx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Medical trauma, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Animal death, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

sundayray's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gaslighting, Gore, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Misogyny, Murder, and Pregnancy

queenie_ofthe_void's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.25

This book is probably more than a 3.25 compared to previous reads, but I'm trying to re-calibrate my ratings (they've been getting increasingly higher). 

This book was... fine. Very predictable and a bit boring. All of the interactions I wanted to see were skipped most of the time, yet it still felt unnecessarily long. It's frustrating when the MC female protagonist just seems to consistently make obviously wrong choices. I did, however, try to keep reminding myself that she was only 16. But my biggest issue with the story was

The ending. She could have easily asked for two vials if she promised to be apart of the Doctor's life while still saving Jack. Hell there was probably enough in the one vial for Hazel and Jack to split it! Titanic all over again. And then him not even coming to find her. Just being like 'meet me in America. Honestly smdh.

I'm being harsh. I'm writing this after binging The Atlas Six, which is all I can think about. I took some time before writing this summary because the ending emotionally wrecked me, but now my opinion has still been warped. I'm not sure if I'll ever think if this book again, much like other romances I've read (outside of Naomi Novik, the queen of slow burn).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Blood, Gore, Classism, Gaslighting, Sexism, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

sbauer2894's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Medical content, and Pregnancy