Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Winter Soldier: Cold Front by Mackenzi Lee

7 reviews

riespark's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Death, Gun violence, War, Medical trauma, Torture, Murder, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Violence, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Mental illness, Drug use, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

ruckystarnes's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, War, Body horror, Medical trauma, and Gun violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Confinement, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Body horror, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Blood, Cursing, Self harm, Torture, Kidnapping, Suicide, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

origamibird's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

The book is good cuz bucky’s in it but the book is also pain cuz bucky’s in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Body horror, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, and Death

Moderate: War, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Blood, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent and Suicide attempt

foxmulders's review against another edition

mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

this was.... fine. i didn't love the cobbling together of comics & mcu bucky into this bucky, because things fall apart a bit if you look at them too close. 

and the writing style was a bit more... wattpad than Not Easily Conquered-esque "fanfiction" writing. tbh i was surprised when i googled this person and they were a professional author. 

tbh i am not entirely sure who the intended audience is... it's not really comics bucky fans, or captain america fans, or middle grade/young adults that like the mcu... idk. this is a weird book. i had fun with it but it was more of a marvel money grab than the in-depth character study i wanted out of this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, and Murder

mamabeardteacher's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

Fanfic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm, Kidnapping, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol, War, Car accident, and Torture

riflelizards's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

SAD BUCKY HOURS ARE FOREVER AND ALWAYS

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, War, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Torture

m_winnike's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

4.0

I got an ARC copy of this book through work. Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier is one of my favorite Marvel characters. If you’re going into this book expecting it to be MCU Bucky you’re going to be a little disappointed. He’s got a lot of the personality of MCU Bucky but the background and such is different.

The timeline of the book is split between the 1940s when Bucky was first trying to get into the military and the 1950s in his time as a KGB spook. Reading the parts about his time with the KGB was heartbreaking at times, especially at the end when reading his records of all the experiments on him for the Winter Soldier project. Overall I really loved this book. I know the chess aspect was really important because of how it helped set up some of the intrigue but omg do I not care about the multiple pages of descriptions of different chess moves. I get that the author was trying to compare chess strategies to espionage but if I had to hear one more thing about a gambit I was gonna scream because the only Gambit I want to hear about in a Marvel novel is Remy Lebeau. Imogen was such an interesting character and I wished we got more of her. Her whole backstory with her father and finding out what he had planned for her so awful. I wish she would have had a better ending to her story.

If you’re planning to read this book please look at the content warnings because the things I listed are pretty well described in the book and I don’t want anyone to be surprised when they come up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gaslighting, Gore, Torture, Medical trauma, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Body horror