Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

59 reviews

enlamont's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Infertility

beccawhite's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Murder, and Gaslighting

krankykat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

martieliz's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicide, and Murder

itsdeebake's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility and Miscarriage

feralbookwife's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.75

Fast paced, solid mystery. Kept me guessing until the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

tifftastic87's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Isabel Drake is a mother slowly unraveling from the kidnapping of her son. We enter the story one year after his disappearance, the police have no leads and the only clue is an open window. Izzy is distraught, and suffering from severe insomnia, her husband has left her and she has no one to turn to for help. She's been throwing herself into researching all of her neighbors and telling her story at true crime conventions, where she meets Waylon. Waylon is a young podcaster invested in her story and his appearance changes Izzy's investigation and everything she knows. 

I wasn't sure about this one at first, but the way it stuck with me. The bits we know about Izzy's life come out in drips and drabs over the course of the book. We get tiny flashbacks to her childhood and her meeting her husband. All of these flashbacks and the little  morsels of information we get serve to paint her as an unreliable narrator, and then add to that her extreme lack of sleep and you have a portrait of a woman losing her mind and her grip on ... well everything. 

The twists were foreshadowed nicely in a way that really made you think Izzy was even more unhinged than she is. I didn't expect most of them and I really didn't expect the outcome at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Murder

the_pink_pharmacist's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

exlibrissum's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Infertility, Suicide, Violence, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

bek_p87's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

I thought I knew where this was going, and then I thought I knew what the twist would be, and then Stacy Willingham worked her magic and BAM multiple twists that my brain is still untangling. Even better than 'A Flicker In The Dark', which was excellent. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

Minor: Gaslighting