Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

18 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Death, Medical trauma, Child death, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Child abuse, Blood, Grief, Confinement, Gaslighting, Body horror, Death of parent, Violence, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

mar_p's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting and Death of parent

queerghstbuster's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Confinement, Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Vomit

dennyiii's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Murder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Mental illness, Body horror, Gore, and Violence

fanboyriot's review against another edition

dark fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

I’ve had this book for a while and just got around to reading.  Naturally, I went into it knowing nothing, as one does.  To say it was not what I was expecting was an understatement.  The plot did have a promise, there were some things that seemed all too realistic in a horror-ish paranoid way.  The setting was done nicely at least.

Honestly, most of what I didn’t like was the ending.  We got no answers for anything really, and it left with absolutely no resolution.  It just felt like it was dragged out and then it just ended.  The switching POV I normally really like just didn’t work for me; they just seemed too close to one another and a few pages in I’d forget which character it even was.

(First Person POV)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Torture, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal death, Confinement, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Ableism, Vomit, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Cursing, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, War, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, and Eating disorder

sapphire_dreams's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

This is literally one of the best books I ever read!! It’s chilling, dark and kinda a coming of age. I ADORED the characters and the whole story was so well constructed. The whole of Raxter and the dynamic between the girls was SO GOOD!! I genuinely loved it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Torture, Death, Genocide, Gore, Blood, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Self harm, and Abandonment

savagemoose's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-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: Gore, Death, Blood, Gun violence, Animal death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Body horror

Moderate: Terminal illness and Gaslighting

cko's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Body horror, suspense, mystery, dark academia, nature, and survival themes. Lesbian romance and queer themes. Some more words for this book: haunting. gorgeous. (g)ripping. bloody. propulsive. contained. Really wonderful storytelling, strong characterization, tender and touching platonic love. It felt like a dream (nightmare?) come to life, so magical and real and bizarre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Medical content, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Gore, Blood, Suicide, Body horror, Confinement, and Vomit

Moderate: Grief

greenglass67's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

This book is crazy! I loved the characters, I loved the setting, I loved the plot. Rory Powers' writing is fantastic. It's so easy to visualize all the settings and the action of the book is intense and gripping. There are scenes that I think get a bad rep for being confusing, but it all feels like it's a necessary part of the story. It's important for those scenes to be confusing. This book was a little slow getting started, and it takes a while for your questions to be answered, but I felt that the payoff was worth it. There are some scenes that contain pretty graphic body horror and injuries, but if you can get past that, this would be a 5.0!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Terminal illness, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

apolloniablooms's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

It really choked at the end, which felt rushed.  Overall glad I read it, but it feels like a shadow of books like Annihilation and Inspection which do the same thing but feel more complete.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Self harm, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Gore, Body horror, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Emotional abuse, Death, Confinement, Blood, Animal death, and Abandonment