Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

352 reviews

moonbasket's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Amy and Nick's relationship is seriously messed up. Lots of little lies and emotional manipulation and mean remarks. There is some gaslighting as well and gaslighting of the reader from two unreliable narrators.

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

AMAZING AMY DID NOTHING WRONG! 4✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

stories's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

Very much a AAH situation. 

I was interested enough to want to find out what happened, but goodness it felt long winded. For me that padding also undercut the impressiveness of the “cleverness”. 

I suspect the reveal in Part 2 was meant to be a surprise twist, but wasn’t for me. 

Also, didn’t help that the closest to “likeable” was a couple of the side characters, and even then it was a struggle. 

If it weren’t a book club read, I doubt I’d have persevered. Certainly, I didn’t feel the ending provided sufficient payoff to make the longwindedness worthwhile. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Stalking, and Death of parent

notyourbook's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, Self harm, Vomit, Dementia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Classism

magikorbert's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

fuckin straight people

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Vomit

chloe_g_97's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy

sherineamalia's review against another edition

Characters sucks! Wished them all bad things

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Narcissistic people! If they all died it would make their worlds a better place. Makes me worry who the author knows and has inspired the author to write them?

hydekels's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

laciebug's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

rainlionnixphe's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

I liked the writing but I ended up feeling like this book was overhyped. The characters were completely unlikable for me and the book ended up just being kind of meh. I never really wanted to put it down but that's mostly because I was at work and it was keeping my mind engaged from work stuff.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia, Terminal illness, and Vomit