Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

23 reviews

joonjxne's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Grief

amandadelbrocco's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

Honestly kind of read like Dracula fan fiction. I tabbed this book and there were far too many dark blue tabs for my taste (sections that made me really uncomfortable due to ethical reasons) and I just didn't enjoy it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Blood, and Gaslighting

penguuu's review against another edition

Way too long, way too slow, none of the characters are likeable, I couldn't do it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Just, bad.

meowster18's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

Amazing read. First time reading the novel but I’ve seen the movie. Beautiful writing. Gripping story telling. Very imaginative. I found myself swooning when I could almost visualize Louis exploration of New Orleans, the viliages of Europe, and the city of Pairs. I felt his suffering, his longing, his love, his passion, and even his sense of wonder. I must contiune the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Stalking, and Death of parent

e_freckles's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

phillyhufflepunk's review against another edition

There's only so much casual pedophilia I can take. I tried to finish just to finish. I can briefly tolerate  that Louie is an unreliable narrator and begrudgingly read through it even though he doesn't seem to show any character growth in the hundreds of years since he was a bored, unthinking plantation owner who cared more about capitalism than the humanity of the people who worked his land. I just couldnt do it for nearly 300 pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I felt a lot of things reading this book - parts of it are deeply problematic (re: Claudia), but if you go in the with a grain of salt and self care ready, I think this is a solid read

The yearning is so strong in this book. There are moments where Louis’ sorrow is so tangible it has a physicality. It drapes over the narrative of prose of the book like a curtain.

“I didn’t know I thought these things. I spoke them now as my thoughts. And they were my most profound feelings taking a shape they could never have taken had I not spoken them, had I not thought them out this way in conversation with another. I thought myself then possessed of a passive mind, in a sense. I mean that my mind could only pull itself together, formulate thought out of the muddle of longing and pain, when it was touched by another mind; fertilized by it; deeply excited by that other mind and driven to form conclusions. I felt now the rarest, most acute alleviation of loneliness.  I could easily visualize and suffer the moment years before in another country, [. . .] and then that passionate and doomed affection for Claudia which made loneliness retreat behind the soft indulgence of the senses, the same senses that longed for the kill. [. . .] And it was as if the great feminine longing of my mind were being awakened again to be satisfied. And this I felt despite my own words: ‘But it’s that dark, that empty. And it is without consolation.’”

 The entire time I felt like I was seeing through Louis’ eyes and was keenly aware of

Lestat’s watchful gaze

“But Louis, this is the very spirit of your age. Don’t you see that? Everyone else feels as you feel. Your fall from grace and faith has been the fall of a century.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

greenrequiem's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, and Stalking

jasminawithab's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

read this a few months ago and have not stopped thinking about it since. i regularly go back to reread certain passages and pages. 

claudia my beloved

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Abandonment, and Classism

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Slavery, and Death of parent

Minor: Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation