Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

62 reviews

ciara_donohue's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

cdoubet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

hannahdanielle2's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse and Physical abuse

Minor: Body shaming

butilikeit's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

louiepotterbook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

mel_littleclarinet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

Ein echt tolles Buch. Super geschrieben und es hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht es zu lesen - vor allem die recht ausführlichen romantischen Szenen. 

Es gab jedoch zwei Sachen die ich bemängeln würde: 

1. Ich habe im Buch mehrere Schreibfehler gefunden, die bei aufmerksamen durchlesen durch z.B. eine weitere Person hätten vermieden werden können. - Klar aber auch, dafür kann die Autorin nichts, die Verantwortung liegt bei den Übersetzern.
 
2. Ich finde es schade, dass Poppy sehr schlau beschrieben wird, und dann aber die klarsten Hinweise übersieht oder den Zusammenhang nicht begreift. Das finde ich unnötig, da ich das zu ihrem eigentlich sehr cleveren Charakter unpassend finde. 

Ich würde/werde es auf jeden Fall weiter empfehlen! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

maevesheehan's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

lovenecy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

There were moments where I was able to predict things, like that Hawke was an Atlantian. I also predicted he was the Dark One.  The ascension truth threw me though. Wasn’t expecting that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

toastyghosty13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

I was suggested this book as a recommendation after reading the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

The first 25%-30% of this book I found quite boring, it took me longer to read this section than the rest of the book. It started to pick up a lot more with

the attempted abduction of the main character Poppy and the murder of one of her personal royal guards, Rylan.

I could not put the book down after this, and read pretty large chunks afterwards, finishing a bulk of the book in 2 days. This is that majority of where the 2.5/5 rather than 4/5 stars comes from. 

My other main criticism of this book, but not as much as the first point is

the romantic relationship between Poppy and Hawke. I found it pretty cringey for some parts, but also love him as a chaotic character of weird morality.

He reminds me of (ACOTAR spoiler)

Rhysand a lot, but if Rhysand was a bit more murdery and psycho I guess?

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I definitely recommend this book for people who liked ACOTAR. I think the overarching conspiracy theories are very engaging once you start to get into it. I will say that a lot of the twists were very easily predictable for me, but YMMV. I think this book was really used to set up a lot for the rest of the series, so just try to get through it if you find parts boring because I have a feeling more exciting things are in the future. I finished the book today, and the ending had a twist I actually was not expecting at all that was left as a cliffhanger. If anything, it made me happy that I can start the next book asap because I am feeling the same type of excitement that I felt when (ACOTAR/ACOMAF spoilers)

Feyre was taken to Velaris

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child death

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious slow-paced

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

4.75

Holy shit this was a rollercoaster from start to finish!! I adore Poppy and cant wait to read more of her and her badassness. My old complaint is the age gap between the two of them other than that it was awesome!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism