Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Миссис Марч by Virginia Feito

9 reviews

helenito's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Great book to show how people lose themselves in a relationship and what a thin line there is between sanity and insanity

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder

lotoblanco's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, and Dementia

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

emmagreenwood's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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 death, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

nialiversuch's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy

libraryfiend21's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, and Gaslighting

librarianlayla's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

Although a well written, unnerving book - it's not really for me. I found that there was too much constant body shaming and found the book overall to be just terribly sad and uncomfortable. I wanted there to be more hope within the novel but the whole tone is morose. 

However for those who love psychological thrillers that offer up an 'unhinged' female character and nauseating white middle class society interspersed with a mysterious air- this might be for you. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Minor: Drug use and Vomit

lexslittlelibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Looking solely at the dust jacket blurb for Mrs. March, I thought it was more of a modern murder mystery story. (I bought it on sale at B&N and told my mom she could read it after me because it seemed up her alley too—I retracted that offer!) 

While I personally have found I’m not crazy about psychological thrillers like this, I can appreciate that it is well written.

However, the third person narration left me wanting more…

  I would have liked to have heard more from other characters’ perspectives, specifically the experiences they were having alongside Mrs. March, especially people like Martha or the upstairs neighbor.

Overall, it was a solid read. Not one I’ll revisit, but not one that will slip out of my memory anytime soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Vomit, and Dementia

kbea88's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

A very slow process to find out what we all suspected in the beginning:

Mrs. March is unhinged, and George ain’t shit.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Gaslighting