Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

13 reviews

kbowles24's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Murder, Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Slavery, Racism, Police brutality, Blood, Alcohol, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual assault, Torture, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Gore, Grief, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Child death, and Confinement

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Police brutality, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Death, Confinement, Murder, Classism, Colonisation, Sexual content, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Grief, Drug use, War, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse

unboundbooklover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The ending was a redeeming quality and made me want to rate it higher. I loved the book, but some parts were extremely long and repetitive. Sometimes Bryce kept thinking the same things, which I guess is realistic, but I wasn’t the biggest fan of her in this book. I feel like she’s a bit of a hypocrite with disliking “alpha-holes” and associating them only with males, when her personality is very similar. Hunt was kind of dull because he let her walk all over him. She messed up a lot of things and instead of there being character growth, she kept being reckless which was frustrating. I’m trying to be vague, but her entitled personality and her hating that a certain thing occurred made not sense to me and she seemed very dramatic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Sexual content

emmak2121's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

There’s childhood trauma mentions throughout the book such as child abuse. There’s also mentions of abuse between the hind too just be wary and this is quite a spicy book too x 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Gaslighting, Drug use, Genocide, Murder, Sexual content, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

infjkiki's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Genocide, Sexual content, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Classism, Emotional abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

I need some time to process this. Holy shit. I’ve never read 700 pages so fast in my life. I have so many questions. My heart, in pieces. My brain, on the wall. My soul, well… 
5 stars. Can’t wait for the next one. SJM if you fumble this as hard as ACOSF I will never recover. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, War, Death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Blood, Classism, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Alcohol, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, and Gaslighting

molly_love's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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? No

5.0

OMG, this thing must have been sent to me from the heavens. I would give up my soul to be able to read this book for the first time again. I just cant really explain it, it drew me in, it kept me interested, waiting for the build up, the problem the everything was done so well Its just amazing I cant believe I have to wait for the third book.

This book should be written in the history books all over the world.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and War

Minor: Murder, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Slavery, Stalking, and Suicide

theoceanrose's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Blood, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Violence, War, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

prairieraven's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

It's slow to read for the first 2/3 of the book, it starts twisting and turning after that and the end leaves the reader a bit bewildered and anxious about the next book. Not her best, good. Hoping that the rest of the series improves. Still excessive use of the word F--- which is fine but it's like a word just discovered by a child and is somehow used at least once a page. 

Severe lack of diversity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Police brutality, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, War, Sexual violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Incest, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Torture, Suicide, Pedophilia, Murder, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

When I tell you I screamed, I laughed, and I cried you have no choice to believe it. The last line on page 798 made me so excited. I am ready for the next CC book and the next

ACOTAR book

. The spice is incredible, and I have definitely fallen into Maas destruction once again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Blood, Classism, Violence, Slavery, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Mental illness, and War