Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

31 reviews

iamloreal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I wish a few more details were wrapped up at the end of the story. It ended right as the dust began to settle and it felt a bit rushed. I enjoyed the story though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Pedophilia

mzgeee53's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Vomit, and Car accident

fkshg8465's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

*********kind of spoiler *********




Upgrading to a four after some thought. It's a good allegory for racism in the US. Would be a good book to teach in high school, if I had it my way ;-)

Felt like I was reading a version of the Korean movie Parasite. But it was a lot less creepy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

achay91's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Toxic relationship

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Racism, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Death, and Alcohol

turtleycool's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Why is it called “White Smoke“? Abrupt ending, an emotionally unintelligent protagonist, unsatisfactory resolution. Can be a thrilling read though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, and Gaslighting

islesbiyana's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Racism and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Pedophilia

readsandsuch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

She can’t keep getting away with this. 

Extra content warning since storygraphy still doesn’t have a specific tag for this:

insects/insect horror. The main character has a phobia of bedbugs and discusses them in graphic detail very often.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Pedophilia and Kidnapping

insect horror, bed bugs

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

I sadly did not enjoy this one as much as I was hoping. I do have to say that the discussions in this are good and very important and I enjoyed those. I did enjoy the plot of this book and the family dynamics I do have to say nothing really creepy started happening until about 60% of the way through so that was kind of a bummer I didn’t see something coming so that was cool and I do have to say the last 15% I really liked.  I just found this to be boring at first and I know she’s an addict and I know weed helped her with her anxiety but hearing about it every other sentence was driving me crazy. I really liked Sammy as a character as well. He was probably my favorite part of the book. I think I also didn’t like this because the main character was very unlikable at times and that was hard like I understood her side of things but it was just too much of at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism