Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black

32 reviews

becca_w_'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Injury/injury detail, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Medical content, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

Moderate: Abandonment, Incest, Child death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Vomit, and War

kaz_brekkerrr's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Bullying

Minor: Slavery, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Torture, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Blood

morepagesplease's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Imagine being a mortal trapped in the world of faeries.  Much darker and dangerous than I imagined.  This book has plots and scheming galore.  I loved it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Death of parent

Minor: Toxic relationship and Gaslighting

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Injury/injury detail, Violence, Death of parent, Death, Murder, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Kidnapping

vereadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual harassment, Grief, Gaslighting, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Death, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Torture

amicamerlo's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Emotional abuse, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Grief, and Murder

lynnloveshobi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Injury/injury detail, Murder, and Death

Minor: War, Abandonment, Classism, Incest, and Colonisation

lupin92's review

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

This was an enormous disappointment. I was bored out of my mind while doing my best to finish it, but I couldn't do it.
The writing is horrendous... I got angrier as I read on, and when I got to the last 50ish pages, I refused to carry on, because I couldn't bring myself to care one bit. It wasn't that it was even mediocre; the whole book felt pointless to me.

There was absolutely no substance to it whatsoever. There was no world building, no character growth, no interesting writing, no nothing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

The writing is horrendous... There was absolutely no substance to it whatsoever.. Just don't read it

theragereader's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.5

DNF’ed around 15%. But with Jude acting like a stubborn idiot despite knowing it could get her seriously injured and Cardan not having any redeemable qualities, I gave up. Jude seemed much more concerned about if her sister slept with someone and ogling Cerdsn than anything. It wasn’t “enemies to lovers,” to me. Cardan and his buddies were just sociopathic abusers to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Child abuse, and Gaslighting

princessrory's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Gore, Death of parent, Bullying, Injury/injury detail, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Death, Alcohol, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Infidelity, Torture, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Slavery, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Minor: Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Sexual content, and Infertility