Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

26 reviews

greylandreviews's review against another edition

sad fast-paced

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

2.75

This was okay but, it just didn't hit me hard in the feels like <i>Were Are Okay</i> did. I still think about that one a lot. The best way to describe this is trauma focused head space of girl aging out of the foster care system and going to a haunted house to face her past ghosts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident and Death

ash_ton's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-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

3.75

i'm so glad this didn't turn out to be cult-y

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Abandonment, Blood, and Death

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Medical content, Car accident, and Panic attacks/disorders

krokuskind's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

_pauline's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Nina LaCour captures loneliness and trauma in a unique yet imo accurate & relatable way.  I‘m saying this as someone who - just like with Hold Still - doesn’t actually relate to the trauma the mc has experienced (fortunately), which could either mean that it has to be exceptionally well done in order for me to feel that way or that I simply don’t know what I‘m talking about, that’s for other people to decide.

I did find the flashback scenes quite disturbing/unsettling but I know they were meant to, I know that’s the point of them.

I really liked the storyline with Lee

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

lady_bountiful's review

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

stories's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

Beautifully written, but I don’t think I liked it, in the end. A lot runs beneath the surface. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Death

nohealani_'s review

adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted relaxing tense fast-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

I honestly don’t know how to talk about this book. It’s such an amazing representation of trauma and guilt and all the things we fear and repress. The healing that happens in this book and that i got from reading it was just perfect and the way the author writes the relationship between the characters is so beautiful and heartwarming. The ending was a little anticlimactic in my opinion but it was still amazing and still a 5 star read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Gaslighting

Minor: Gore and Domestic abuse

emminkirjakasa's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

This book was a fast read with beautiful language and a sprinkle of magical realism (my favorite). The story itself is quite sad, but has its moments of fun and beauty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Vomit

Minor: Car accident

lilly_anne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, Medical content, and Abandonment

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Animal death and Car accident

there's a scene in the book where the main protag listens in on a couple having sex then masturbates to it this isn't exactly a tw warning for anything specific but the main protag was... weirdly possessive of a child in the story and not in a 'I see you as my kid and want to protect you way'