Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Pines by Blake Crouch

26 reviews

lukemorganartist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Car accident

mlthomas234's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, and Gaslighting

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Trafficking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Xenophobia, Blood, Car accident, and War

markguitar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

Very good book and I hope to get the sequel.  Crouch is an excellent writer.  At first, I thought I wouldn't bother going to the second book.  Fair warning...lots of very graphic violence, gore, torture.  If you don't have a stomach for that, I'd avoid it.  That almost made me want to stop.  However, the book leads to a payoff in the end...it does resolve, but it also makes me curious about what's coming next.  Not as good as Crouch's Incursion--which is outstanding--but still a good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, and Vomit

__codex's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and War

Minor: Car accident

bunky_jones's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gaslighting

Moderate: Kidnapping and Murder

dayanitha's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

jdhauk's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Violence, Police brutality, and War

zosiablue's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

I've seen the TV version of this a couple of times through and thought it was finally time to read the books. It's such a thrilling weird sci-fi story and the payoff at the end of this first one is SO GOOD. You just don't see it coming and it gives you that same Planet of the Apes / Twin Peaks unsettling-oh-shit vibe. Drags uh some parts like the show but really really fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, and War

bbducki's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Death, Gore, Infidelity, Torture, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, and Gaslighting