Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

37 reviews

ttumbletree's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

I didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did. I thought it’d be predictable and not really my style. But despite my expectations, the book had me hooked within a couple of pages. I loved guessing along with the characters about what would happen and how they would solve each mystery. 
What I do have to say though, is that the book sometimes feels like a teen drama show. This is not a bad thing (one look at my old tumblr reveals how much I obsessed over teen drama shows, so yeah, definitely not a bad thing) but I still wanted to point it out. 
The only reason I didn’t give the book five stars is the fact that I don’t really vibe with love triangles. So far it wasn’t even all that bad, but love triangles just always leave a bad taste in my mouth. But oh well, I’ll see what happens in the next book. 
See, that’s another positive thing about the book, I didn’t wait a single second after finishing the book, before I ordered the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Fire/Fire injury

karapillar's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Oh my god. Wow. Wow wow wow! I regret not reading this book sooner. It is so. Stinking. Good. I like to think I’m pretty good at predicting endings, but this one through me for a loop! I had nooooo idea what was going to happen throughout the entire book. Twists, mysteries, and suspense kept  me turning up until literally the very last page. I’m obsessed. I’m starting book two immediately. Good bye, sleep!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Classism, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Stalking, Infidelity, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

helenferg's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, Child death, and Drug use

Moderate: Abandonment, Homophobia, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

keats_the_listener's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I honestly was hoping more for this book as it was recommended by someone who recommended it in the same conversation as A discussion of Knives Out.  The book is just a series of toxic conversations and relationships.  I just didn’t get the appeal 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Child death, and Classism

nessabali's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Hate crime, Murder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Stalking

laurastracey's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting and Physical abuse

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

This book was alright.

It reminds me a little of a book a read when I was in elementary school called The Westing Game, but with a smidge of reverse harem trope thrown in and it was clearly written for a YA audience so all the romance bits were pretty cringe.

Favorite character was probably Oren the bodyguard.  Will likely read the next book because I'm curious where it will go with the puzzles and mysteries, but skim the romance bits since I don't care about the main characters enough.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Classism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Death, and Death of parent

hannahwhiteyy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

This book was… okay. The short chapters and flow had me engaged, with an interesting plot, but I wasn’t WOW-ed by the characters. The writing wasn’t spectacular, either. All in all, it was 3 stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Medical trauma, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

faithmari's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Gaslighting and Domestic abuse

Minor: Blood

quejk25's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Infertility, Biphobia, Alcohol, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Gaslighting