Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones

12 reviews

itsjadenbaby's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Consistently a 4.5 stars throughout, but the ending had my jaw on the floor. I don’t know how I didn’t see it coming, but I didn’t which means it had to be given 5 stars!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

grumpydumpling's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

There's some plot armor on a couple characters but i still felt like i needed to know more. I was surprised by every new development. I felt like the writing sometimes got repetitive but it was never a real issue. I think everything made sense and it left me on the edge of my seat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

ariajb's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

all that drama for an annoying british frat boy 😕

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Violence, and Gaslighting

sophiemartin's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

tlholmes's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

bookish_bobbie's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death

Minor: Cancer, Violence, Stalking, and Pregnancy

keijiwolf's review against another edition

dark emotional

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

2.0

Reads like fanfiction of the JustNoMIL subreddit. Felt super predicable the entire way through 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

jenny_wren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

In this book Emily and Adam form a relationship and the pace is fast. They are happy, in love and everything is perfect... or at least it would be if it wasn't for the other woman in his life - his mother. She is vile to Emily but as far as Adam is concerned his mum can do no wrong. Pamela, Adam's mother, is determined to come between them but only Emily sees this side of her. 

There were so many things I hated about this book. Emily is a doormat, Adam is vile and she just keeps making excuses for his behaviour... but it was a really compelling read and I couldn't put it down! I felt the whole story was just so unlikely but I felt mostly satisfied with the ending. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Gaslighting

dnlrbchd's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

ronnieb's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Trigger Warnings: Gaslighting, Domestic Abuse, Cheating, Death of Family Members

This was a very fast-paced and engaging read. I think the first half was a bit more exciting than the second half cause you really see where it is going. But with that being said the story is surprising at moments and I will say that the end did take me off guard. I was convinced it was going to play out in a certain way and it did not.

The characters were fleshed out pretty well and even the side characters were standing out to me. They did not fall into typical categories and stereotypes, they also stood by our main character and never made her out to be crazy or feel isolated and I thought that was so refreshing. With that being said my biggest problem was our MC Emily. She was a bit frustrating to read at times but I did empathize with her and could get where she was coming from. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting