Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

37 reviews

hannahjones27's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Again, my love for this book is so unexplainable. The emotions I feel, the love, everything is just beautiful. My favorite one in the entire series 🥲

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Suicidal thoughts

raebae's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, Gore, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infertility, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Slavery, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Misogyny, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Eating disorder, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Sexism, and War

elislittlelibrary's review

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

This felt hard to rate. I did enjoy having a book about the “unlikeable sister”. Though it needs to be said that I’m not a fan of ACOTAR and the characters. I had issues with this book. 
Nesta is portrayed as unlikeable, yes, but there is clear trauma that she’s experienced and is struggling with. This could’ve been a really good book about trauma and mental illness, but it just wasn’t. The other characters were unnecessarily cruel to her and the “just do exercise and you’ll feel better”-thing was really big. But that’s not how mental illness works, so I wasn’t a fan of that portrayal. Some plot-parts I had issues with: the book was SO long, most of it just felt dragged out.

BUT I think the part where they were put into the Blood Rite was really interesting. It did remind me of books like the Hunger Games, so maybe that’s what I liked. Suddenly, everything progressed very quickly and the stakes were high. However, I didn’t understand why the Blood Rite was cut so incredibly short, while the rest of the book was dragged out so much. To me, the Blood Rite was the best part and I would’ve liked to read more about it. 
The second thing: I cannot stand the trope of “girl (woman in this case) giving up her powers to save xyz”. I cannot. And, obviously, this happens (or seems to happen) at the end of the book.

In general, I feel like the behavior of many characters was super problematic (looking at Rhysand in particular). Not a fan. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Death

fromjuliereads's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• 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

2.5

Meh. It was fine. Honestly I was bored at a lot of parts. I want more of Emerie and Gwyn than anyone else 😅

I found that there was actually not much of a plot - the plot was seemingly forgotten through most of the book so we could follow the training or just Cassian and Nesta fucking. Which got old. And the whole scenes of them hiking? Definitely skim read those and other sections... I still don't really like Nesta. I can understand her character and that she has trauma and still not like her. I liked the parts with Cassian but it was mostly him pining after Nesta and defending her when she didn't deserve it. The Rhys and Feyre plot was annoying. And even though Elain finally said something and stood up she was still pretty damn useless to the story... just wasn't for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Bullying, Gaslighting, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Vomit

The rape is recounted. There is also a baby death for a short bit...

christinwynne's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexual content, Grief, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Domestic abuse, Death, Murder, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and War

stuebnick's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Death, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

sayiagirl's review

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book follows Feyre’s sister Nesta. In my opinion it is the best book in the series. The character development is wonderful and it puts a realistic view of trauma in a wider scope. You will probably cry at some point but this book is so inspiring by the end. (Very spicy)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

solarel's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a fun read. I liked it more as it went on, and I pretty much started out hating nesta. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Child death, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Violence, War, Blood, Cursing, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Murder

meghansarmiento97's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Confinement, Chronic illness, Cursing, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Bullying, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Self harm, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Torture, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape