Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

In Every Mirror She's Black by Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström

6 reviews

readbycarina's review

challenging tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Suicide, Racism, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death, Child death, and Body shaming

crouchingdoctorhiddenbias's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Islamophobia, and Terminal illness

kmyr1123's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Gaslighting, Death, Sexual assault, Grief, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, Racism, Domestic abuse, and Sexual violence

lili_geek's review

emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.5

This book follows three black women from different backgrounds who are all impacted by the same man. Three out of four characters were incredibly unlikeable. 

The meat of the book had some good story development, where one woman was finding her niche while trying the cope with the systemic  racism surrounding her, one woman drowning in isolation due to outright racism she has to experience, and one woman who was constantly trying to make connections in the mist of all of her trauma. But the ending was simultaneously sad and frustrating, and I can’t say that I found it was a good ending. Only one character did my heart go out to. 

I also did not like the fact that the main ‘villain’ was coded as ASD. The representation was poor and not accurate. To me it read like someone went to webmd- found the main symptoms of ASD then put all of it in one character. 

Overall, the book was good enough for me to maintain interest to want to finish the book, but I would not recommend it to anyone. I felt like it had a lot of promise, but I was disappointed in the character decisions (not the last characters decision, that broke my heart) in the beginning and ending of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Ableism, Suicide, Mental illness, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, and Classism

deezy's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Grief, Islamophobia, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Domestic abuse and Gaslighting

cleches's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Racism, Gaslighting, Death, and Classism