Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

15 reviews

books_rule's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

stephaniemcuervo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Infertility, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use

kbowles24's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Blood, Police brutality, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Child abuse

unboundbooklover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The ending was a redeeming quality and made me want to rate it higher. I loved the book, but some parts were extremely long and repetitive. Sometimes Bryce kept thinking the same things, which I guess is realistic, but I wasn’t the biggest fan of her in this book. I feel like she’s a bit of a hypocrite with disliking “alpha-holes” and associating them only with males, when her personality is very similar. Hunt was kind of dull because he let her walk all over him. She messed up a lot of things and instead of there being character growth, she kept being reckless which was frustrating. I’m trying to be vague, but her entitled personality and her hating that a certain thing occurred made not sense to me and she seemed very dramatic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

emmakelly21's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.75

There’s childhood trauma mentions throughout the book such as child abuse. There’s also mentions of abuse between the hind too just be wary and this is quite a spicy book too x 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Genocide, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

infjkiki's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

5.0

I need some time to process this. Holy shit. I’ve never read 700 pages so fast in my life. I have so many questions. My heart, in pieces. My brain, on the wall. My soul, well… 
5 stars. Can’t wait for the next one. SJM if you fumble this as hard as ACOSF I will never recover. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

molly_love's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

OMG, this thing must have been sent to me from the heavens. I would give up my soul to be able to read this book for the first time again. I just cant really explain it, it drew me in, it kept me interested, waiting for the build up, the problem the everything was done so well Its just amazing I cant believe I have to wait for the third book.

This book should be written in the history books all over the world.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, and Murder

theoceanrose's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault