Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

221 reviews

anne_reader's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-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: Blood, Death of parent, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Grief, Child abuse, Incest, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Stalking, Addiction, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Confinement, and Emotional abuse

choy77's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Physical abuse

ksera's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Truly excellent. Masterfully written down to every detail. My only qualm was the end felt rushed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

gaymoonreader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, and Stalking

Moderate: Excrement, Homophobia, and Pedophilia

Minor: Drug use and Pandemic/Epidemic

kashby's review against another edition

i liked the first two acts but when the theme went from being about how people who experience trauma sometimes gain the capability to harm others into how this girl is cray cray 😝 and forced an old man to date her i was kind of over it. the writing was really good but i just didn’t really fw the ending or how walter’s character was handled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Death, Murder, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Grief, and Infidelity

Minor: Blood, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Vomit, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Drug use

abeier's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Murder, and Gaslighting

winglesswarrior's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault

craigpwmoroney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-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

This book keeps you guessing until the end. It's narrative is told by multiple people each one, unreliable in some degree. It is hard hitting, but a very good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Gaslighting, Confinement, Bullying, Child abuse, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Grief

andieobrien99's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Woah! What a rollercoaster of a book!

It was creepy. It was intense. It was sad. It was good!

This was my first time reading one of Lisa’s books and honestly I have to read more! 

This gave me the chills reading it! 

The fact there’s people out in the world who are like that just gives me the heebee Jeebees

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Grief, and Murder

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

1.0

When it comes to ambiguous open endings, I usually don't mind because I can imagine what I want to follow as an epilogue.  That requires having a good foundation though and this book lacked that in spades.  When the title is the book, you question everything.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Bullying, Drug use, Excrement, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Torture, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Blood, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis