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Dark Romance

Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting

Manipulation, humiliation, isolation or gaslighting between characters, often by the love interest. Common in bully, stalker and possessive-hero romance. If this is a trigger for you, check this warning before any book with those tropes.

1,861 books

Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting in dark romance, by the numbers

  • 1,861 books on Readark
  • Average spice 3.9/5 — 86% rate 4 or higher
  • Average darkness 4.1/5 — 91% rate 4 or higher

Subgenres where it appears most

Tropes it most often comes with

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