Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

86 reviews

elrose83's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Suicide, Gaslighting, and Rape

at806's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Cancer, Body shaming, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Injury/injury detail, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Murder, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

michaelion's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

None of this would've ever happened if not for the 2008 housing crisis.

Picture this. You're me. You're in biology class. it's 2014. Your teacher overhears you say you wanna be a writer or you wanna make movies when you get older. She tells you "Oh my gosh, I just saw this movie you'd really like." She softly, accidentally spoils the plot twist, but it's okay you know enough about tv amd movies to know nobody ever really dies except Uncle Ben. So you shrug it off and say, "Okay, I'll still watch it." And then she says, "It was based on a book." brcause she knows you like books. And then she goes, "Oh, wait! It's really mature... Maybe you shouldn't watch it." How old was I in 2014 you ask? FOURTEEN !!! 

Honestly I was reading way worse stuff back then and I've calmed down now. But anyway.

That was, and I don't mean this lightly, pretty fucking amazing. The first third is pretty slow but it pays off so well. And then the second part being titled "Boy Meets Girl"? Even though they've known each other seven years?? Shut the fuck up it's literally true. Wow. And also, amazing.

Every crazy sociopathic calculated woman deserves her own pathetic spineless weasel of a man. Her own puppet.

And even after all that, she wasn't racist? My bar has been met. I love it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Injury/injury detail, Emotional abuse, Torture, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Self harm, and Infidelity

Moderate: Alcohol, Rape, Pregnancy, Confinement, Kidnapping, Blood, Murder, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Stalking, Body shaming, and Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Animal cruelty, and Vomit

m0rdred_the_fallen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

If the ever author ever makes a sequel, I sincerely hope it's about

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their son

burn them alive and recorded their dying screams of agony for a ringtone, because both Nick and Amy deserved a painful death, but Amy primarily.

Not gonna lie,

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Amy

had me fool for the first third of the book, I felt truly sorry for both of them I mean talk about tragic. But then the second third began and I understood that they truly deserve each other because of how they each feed the other worst side;

Spoiler

Nick is codependent child with daddy issues and Amy is a narcisist with mommy issues that still has beef with a fictional alterego and her seven unborn older sisters. Honestly, neither of them is fit to be a parent.

Go was always the voice of reason and Nick should have be fully honest from the start with her and heed her advice.

Also good ridance to the Elliots, those two should've never been parents and their seven unborn daughters dodged quite the bullet of having such passive-agressive a**hole of parents who wanted a robot, not a child. The irony of them being child psychologists who wrote those awful Amazing Amy books which I bet my life did more harm than they ever did good to a whole generation.

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This is also the only point I concede to Amy, her parents not only built an empire on her back, but also inmortalized every little dissapointment and failure so that she could never forget them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Stalking, and Self harm

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Vomit, Mental illness, Sexual content, Dementia, Injury/injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Child death, Incest, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship

breedawnwriter's review against another edition

challenging dark funny 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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I really really enjoyed this book, but it’s too sexual for my tastes. I also can’t decide if I love or hate the ending, so there’s that.

If you like psychological thrillers, I’d recommend it. However, I would NOT recommend this to anyone under 18 because of the descriptive sexual content.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Cursing

Moderate: Gaslighting, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Vomit

beesturgis's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Murder

deviya's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Stalking, Sexual content, Self harm, Rape, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Vomit, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexism, Physical abuse, Murder, Gore, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Injury/injury detail

didireadthat's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

Almost DNF’d this book before making it half way through. The second quarter of the book was so slow and I did not like Nick or Diary Amy at all. Right before I gave up though the book turned around and I got sucked into the mystery. An incredible web of clues and lies and plot twist I loved how everything played out. However I still never liked any of the characters and I don’t think they really grew or changed throughout the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Self harm, Murder, Rape, Gaslighting, and Infidelity

Moderate: Sexual content, Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Cancer, Blood, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Injury/injury detail, Stalking, Death of parent, and Infidelity

taliatalksbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn was an unputdownable thriller that keeps you glued to the page from cover to cover. I fell in love with these characters, then I fell in love with hating them, and I think that speaks to Flynn’s ability to write real and raw characters. Flynn thinks of everything here from tying up loose ends with ease to dealing with technology of the modern age. This was a perfectly laid out and planned novel, and was one of the most cohesive thrillers I’ve read recently. I loved this book, and I’m so glad I finally got around to reading it before seeing any major spoilers (somehow, one that I did see went right over my head because I was loving that book so much at the time I didn’t even notice the Gone Girl reference; for those of you wondering it’s House of Hollow). I really think that in terms of thrillers, this is one of the best. Not only does it keep you in the loop, but it also forces you to learn beside Nick in a way that is satisfying and infuriating, just like Amy would want. If you’ve not read it yet and love thrillers, definitely give it a read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Murder, and Self harm

leialeilani's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense 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

3.5

Would have been 4 stars if it hadn’t taken 150-200 pages to get interesting. I almost stopped reading because it was so slow to reveal anything beyond the initial setup.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Gaslighting, and Infidelity

Minor: Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Stalking, Miscarriage, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, and Vomit