Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Guest List, by Lucy Foley

116 reviews

maisiedodds's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Drug use, Self harm, Alcohol, and Mental illness

sammm_888's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Murder, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Injury/injury detail, Abortion, Addiction, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Suicide

lukel's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Self harm

Moderate: Abortion, Murder, Gaslighting, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, and Medical trauma

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Drug use, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Abortion, Classism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

mnadler's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

This book is slow to start but sticking with it resulted with an intriguing middle through ending that had lots of twists and turns. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Child death, Suicide, Death, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

vivikasweiven's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Grief, Gaslighting, Cursing, Sexual content, Abortion, Violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Murder, Mental illness, Body shaming, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual violence, Suicide, and Abandonment

adamsbookshelf's review against another edition

mysterious 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

4.0

This novel is a blink and miss it type of story. We follow a celebrity couple who are getting married on a private island in Northern Ireland. This story revolves around 5 main characters 

Bride - Jules is essentially an influencer with her website and is striving to have the perfect wedding.

Groom- Will is a TV star with boat loads of charisma, every girl at the wedding can't keep their eyes off of him.

Best Man - Johnno is a stoner who doesn't come from money. His friendship with Will started in school and they have been best mates since then.

Maid of Honor - Olivia is Jules half-sister and has been going through a hard time with a recent break up.

Plus one - Hannah is the wife of Charlie who is Jules best friend. Her and Charlie left the kids with her parents and hope to spend the weekend reconnecting, enjoying the time away from parental life.

Through out the novel we alternate between the wedding night where the lights went out and a scream was heard and the two days prior. Secrets are revealed, games are played, and no one is who they seem. I enjoyed the fast pace of this novel and was genuinely shocked when it ended. I didn't want to put the book down.

Spoiler

I loved how we didn't know who even died until the ending. Without a clear victim I wasn't able to predict the murderer so all of the twists felt fresh. My biggest draw back was the ending. I feel like we just needed another chapter or two to wrap up all of the characters stories.

Overall such a good quick read with plenty of drama. For real the drama in this story was telenovela level of drama.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Minor: Murder, Sexual violence, Self harm, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Classism, Abortion, Suicide, Infidelity, Drug use, Bullying, and Vomit

batcaves's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Child death, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Classism, Abortion, Fatphobia, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, and Confinement

camilleion's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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: Blood, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Self harm, Classism, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Torture

ssarahbbeth's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

Contrary to the hype of this book, I felt this was a slow moving book at first. It took about half way in for the story to pick up but when it did I throughly enjoyed it. I  enjoyed the plot twists and the last half quite immensely. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Mental illness, Cursing, Death, Murder, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, and Gaslighting

More in depth on the bullying content warning with spoilers:

Spoiler

hazing and bullying in the past is central to the plot. It is not in graphic detail but it can be upsetting as one character takes no responsibility and has no remorse for their actions that led to the death of a kind teenager.