Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

O Homicídio Perfeito - Um Guia para Boas Raparigas by Holly Jackson

210 reviews

kacie_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, and Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction and Adult/minor relationship

spellbindingtomes's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

pianokeys's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

rosietoesies's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Self harm

hope_mushroom's review against another edition

funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

The things I liked:

• characters, I think they were well build and their actions were realistic. Ravi is such a cool guy and all of friend of Pipp. I quess the two guys friend were kind of useless but I don't mind it honestly. 
• humor, I can't pinpoint exact moment or jokes but just in general there were a lot of good jokes mainly between dad and Pipp and Ravi and Pipp. I chucked a couples of times for real. 
• writing, it was good, easy to understand so that's appreciated. 

So basically I was really invested in story, I liked the characters and I liked the story. 
The only reason why it wasn't a 5 star read is because of the ending, AND DON'T GET ME WRONG I ACTUALLY KINDA LIKE IT BUT,

I think the tempo got too fast at the end. It really felt like the characters were going in circles and Max being the main suspect but then suddenly I'm reading Edwin (this was his name right? Sorry I'm really bad at remembering names) telling the story of his live and how he kidnapped the wrong girl and stuff, and then all the stuff with Bekka. It's hard to remember exactly how Pippa figured it out because it went so quickly. And the whole presentation after was kinda to long for me but that's just me nitpicking. 
The thing I'm wondering is what do you think about Ravi and Pippa being together, I mean clearly that was the goal because they been practically flirting all the time (which was cute) bit I was honestly not expecting them to be official in this book I thought it's gonna be on the next book. I can't wait to start the second part!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, and Alcohol

mnm_2005's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

Has an incredible message!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

booksplsandthanku's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Ok……. I LOVEDDDD this!

It really pulled off the fast-pacedness well….. but I felt like the author could’ve left some room for character development (like SHOWING it instead of telling….. felt like the emotions of the moment could’ve been more described in some places; the romance kind of snuck up on me….. but I FELT it coming - so as long as it’s more described in the next books, I’ll be fine)

5.25🌟 (second on all-time fave bookshelf, after TCP)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Eating disorder and Rape

Not THAT noticeable for some things…. (Some characters are racist - but not the main ones) Note: it has a lot of talk of death and murder (talking of HOW people were murdered)

kyriannaj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction and Death of parent

laurenfro22's review against another edition

2.75

Notes:
- white savior up the wazoo. Are we not going to talk about racial profiling? No intersectional understanding of issues? No?
- slapstick diversity
- ring? Fancy? (Edit: my wife told me the author is from the UK which explains SO MUCH ffs)
- mc is an idiot masquerading as a Ivy League bound high schooler
- what high schooler is doing a CAPSTONE?
- what high schooler has time to do all the bananas sh*t unquestioned?
- HOW did the MC not end up dead with the batsh*t decisions to confront suspects ALONE
- Ethics is calling and they’d like to speak to the MC
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loses a whole star for the dog dying. Absolutely unnecessary

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so many things that needed an adult or authority intervention. Date r*pe? Drugs? Teachers getting involved with students? I mean are you serious? I know I’m old but I’m not THAT old

TL;DR: it was a quick, formulaic book with poor character development, questionable motives, and a heaping scoop of racial insensitivity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fatphobia and Death of parent

ashley_dreaming's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Blood, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol