Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

8 reviews

nimblebandit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Stalking, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal cruelty

te_ss_i's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Car accident, Death, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

As always, Joe is fucking batshit. I like that there are deviations from the show in the book — it helps keep it interesting. Also interesting is Joe’s reasoning/logic skill. I am fascinated yet terrified by his brain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit, Violence, Terminal illness, Stalking, Sexism, Murder, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Confinement, Abandonment, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Blood, Suicide, Sexual content, Mental illness, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Death, and Classism

eureadthis's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Sexism

xfallenxnightx's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

Not as good as You, but still worth the read. Some lines in this book were so cringey that I had to walk away for a minute. Joe is a disgusting and unsettling character and hearing the story through his eyes gives me the creeps, in the best way possible. Over all, the fast paced nature of the story keeps you coming back for more. I’m excited to read the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, Misogyny, and Gaslighting

anne311's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

5.0

I love this book it was genuinly so much fun to spend time reading it... it's so weird (in a good way) that the very basic premise and events are like in the netflix show and the characters are absolutely in character, but also i never knew where anything was going to go. there are so many divergences ever since book 1 and they are like HUGE things that make it impossible to go the same route as the show. but also it kind of ends up at the same points here and there and it's so weird i love it and i love this writing style so much especially. the informality of it, like using a ton of "and"s to conmect multiple sentences in a grammatically incorrect way really does flow so well, joes mind is racing and this style absolutely encapsulates it. like 5 times on the last couple pages i thought ok this is the end of this book, but it kept going, this book always keeps escalating, i love my time spent with this series and look forward to when i find the time to read book 3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Incest

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-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

4.0

I actually really enjoyed this. I went into it nervous because a lot of people didn’t like this one. I get that it changed from second person to first person, but I honestly didn’t mind it that much. I think the change was good because the first one was mostly stalking and this one wasn’t as heavily about that. I did enjoy the characters. The plot was fine like did I really care about Joe and Love being in love,no, not really. But I just find Joe so interesting. It does end on a cliff hanger so be warned. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Outing, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

sanhatiser's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence