Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Gild by Raven Kennedy

97 reviews

mrsm_lovesbook's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

Plot development too slow. Main character has some interesting developments at the end. The main "love interest" is a douche and that's putting it lightly. Lots of vulgarity. Book made me uncomfortable. Overall, not my cup of tea. Only read because it was part of a reading challenge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Slavery, Blood, Toxic relationship, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, and Alcohol

Minor: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

alicia1701's review against another edition

No likeable characters of plot development. Too dark for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Rape

jenminicricket's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I definitely plan to continue this series. I am intrigued by the premise and hopefully that the future books in the series will be fit my reading style a bit better. Of course the genre that it is, there are plenty of red flags a waving everywhere, but we seemed to creep through the plot. It is definitely a character focused book, but I would have loved a few more answers and something a but stronger to pull me through the slower cadence of the novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Misogyny, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Gaslighting, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

I felt like a lot didn’t happen in this book and it was a lot of Auren complaining about life. I’m glad that she started to take charge of her life and see that she has been consistently failed by the men she encounters

other than Sail. I loved him

I don’t really like Midas and I don’t trust him. He gives me the ick and seems emotionally manipulative to someone who is naive and traumatized. I hope to see Auren get him in the future.

I’m intrigued enough to continue but this book was a little meh for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Misogyny, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Violence, Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Rape, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Blood, Sexual violence, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Trafficking, Infertility, and Vomit

kria96's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gaslighting, Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

jen_sten's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, Sexism, Confinement, Death, Sexual violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Bullying and Death of parent

abinthebooks's review against another edition

1.0

DNF at 45%

All that has happened in this book so far is the FMC, Auden, getting SA’ed at every turn, and her supposed love interest, Midas, gaslighting her that it’s all for her own good. Literally made me fucking sick to my stomach. There absolutely needs to be trigger warnings for this book for graphic sexual assault, graphic rape, emotional abuse and extreme gaslighting. Absolutely nothing else has happened in this book so far, I’m snoring and highly triggered. Also Midas is an absolute asshole and I cannot stand him and the way he’s allowing other men to sexually assault Auden literally right in front of him???Idk if Auden is going to get with his goofy ass or not but I’m not sticking around to find out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Pedophilia

katsmaus's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced

2.0

I strongly disliked this book and thought it only got interesting towards the end BUT it is so worth the read for the rest of the series. Push through the first book because the rest of the series is definitely worth it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

shadi_anna's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A surprisingly good read with a strong plot and and intriguing world building for its genre. Can’t wait to read GLINT to see what happens to Auren next ⚜️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, and Gaslighting

ajthequeen's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

1.0

I should've stopped reading on page one when I learned that the harem was called saddles. But alas I continued, and I will never get the hours back that I spent reading this book.

My takeaways: 
FMC has TENTACLES. another spot I should've just shut the kindle down at.
A golden cage is still a cage. This is repeated constantly, just in case you forget.
All men are r-pists and/or don't care about women. The 1-2 who aren't were killed off, because men are bad or they're dead.
Bright side? Bright side.
The use of the word "cum" thrown in for shock effect when there's actually very little cursing in this book.
Did anything actually happen in this book? I blacked out around tentacles. 
FMC was whiny, useless, and overall unlikable. The author did a great job telling us how things felt rather than showing us through emotion on the page. I felt like I was watching a TV show rather than reading a book. Which, if this is a device where we readers are watching FMC through the cage and in subsequent novels gets better as she breaks free, that's incredible. But I'm not going to waste money buying the rest to find out. 
The author felt like she had a point about grooming, trafficking, poverty, and misogyny, but missed the mark entirely. Perhaps these opinions would be best spent on nonfiction writing or opinion pieces rather than... Whatever this was.

F*ckin tentacles, man. </Spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual content