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gabriellejane's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.75
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Self harm, Blood, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Infidelity and Vomit
Minor: Pregnancy
lsmith36's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Drug use, and Pregnancy
lavenderzoey's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.5
Graphic: Self harm, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content
Moderate: Rape and Mental illness
shaziareads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.0
this is the author's first novel, as her previous published works are poetry collections. the writing isn't very remarkable, but it is very blunt and raw, which works for this book. i would recommend it however i can imagine it being very triggering as it deals with an abusive relationship (verbal/sexual), a lot of gaslighting and manipulation, self-harm, suicide attempts, and more.
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content
Minor: Rape
ramblingoutloud's review against another edition
Graphic: Self harm, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Child abuse and Domestic abuse
raniaa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Medical content, Rape, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness
Minor: Vomit and Fatphobia
rebeccareader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Self harm
Minor: Rape
slowreaderlmao's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, and Self harm
Moderate: Rape
shrutislibrary's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
3.75
Just like the narrator of 'Rebecca', Mrs De Winter who is haunted by the ghost of the lingering Rebecca at Manderley, Lilja is threatened by the ever-present ghost of a girl online, the titular red-haired Magma - the object of her lover's desire, lust and undivided attention.
'Magma' is the story of a 20-year-old college girl named Lilja and her descent into a dark void to which she is inevitably drawn and can't resist until she falls. Until she has reached the end of this dark crevice and she has broken and shattered her very being.
The novella starts with Lilja's heady, whirlwind romance with a man she meets online while travelling in Central America
(whose age we don't get & he has crazy unimaginable fetishes) which quickly turns into a manipulative, co-dependent relationship in which she loses her identity, her dignity, her life and herself and from which she is unable to come out.
The short chapters read like fragmented diary entries by Lilja tracking her psychotic breakdown as we bear witness to her nagging suspicions of her lover's infidelity, her growing jealousy, her resentment, her overlooking the warning signs and disregarding the gaslighting, her denial in thinking she can somehow 'fix' him. Lilja feels lust, love, jealousy, obsession, anger, humiliation, rage, disappointment, denial, erasure and in the end a glimmer of hope amidst the darkness or so we are told. The author has painted a brutally raw picture of the twisted cycle of emotional & psychological dependency on the abuser to the point where Lilja is capable of seeing & acknowledging the gaslighting, the subtle violence and who he truly is but can't will herself to come out of that abuse. For Lilja, the abuse and the manipulation is the normality that defines the dynamic of her relationship.
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Rape, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Body shaming, and Vomit
A girl struggling with an extremely abusive and toxic relationship. She loses her identity, her dignity, her life and herself in this relationship from which she is unable to come out.lianne_rooney's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness
Moderate: Rape, Violence, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Pregnancy
Minor: Child abuse