Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

570 reviews

stutzmaa14's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

erinmasterson's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

2.0

So clearly a British author writing about an American town/high school. Very awkward dialogue, both intentional and unintentional. So much of it is so unbelievable. The language the characters use (“cheeky” and “fancy” when they’re supposed to be American), the poor attempt at grasping what high schoolers are actually like (what “cool” crowd would call parties “calamity parties” and then apparently forget only 5 years later). Just bizarre to read about high schoolers from the perspective of someone who clearly hasn’t stepped foot outside in several years.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

dkamada's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

Raced through this, so many suspects, so many twists!
Additional trigger warning:

TW: animal kidnapping + murder

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fatphobia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Vomit, Dementia, and Death of parent

bookishkale's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Fun read! I think I like YA for thriller/mysteries because it helps to keep things a little more lighthearted. I loved the formatting of this book, and honestly, would have liked it more if it was all in first person because Pip in her capstone entries is such a compelling character and sometimes when it was third person I felt like she was a bit muddled. It helped that Pip herself seemed aware that she didn’t really know who she was either, so I didn’t stress too much. The mystery was compelling, and I let myself be guiding by Pip, trying to not see too much into it. I wasn’t surprised by the ending but boy was it just kinda heartbreaking! Ravi was a great addition, and I’m a little weirded out by their romance bc of the ages but I can look past it :) I’m interested in the next book, and hoping that pip’s voice only gets stronger! 

Be wary of the content warnings: a lot of triggers aren’t really described in detail but they are mentioned a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicide, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

weirdemosrus's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Body shaming and Eating disorder

nicole_zx's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Rating: 3/5 stars

Pip decides to investigate the closed murder case of local teenager Andie Bell as part of her senior capstone project.

This isn’t a bad book. It probably doesn’t bode well that I have to preface my review that way, but so be it. I have a lot of friends who have really enjoyed this one, and I think the positives are there: it’s pretty fast-paced with short chapters, there are some fun twists, and the signposting for readers to figure out the mystery is mostly there. It’s predictable, but *mostly* the fun kind of predictable where you can guess what’s coming and feel like a detective.

That said, there’s a major incident about two-thirds of the way through that lost me entirely because of how unnecessarily gruesome, cruel, and triggering it was, and to be honest it ruined the book for me. I also felt like towards the ending there was a lot of emotional manipulation—the book got VERY dark (particularly for a YA thriller!) and not in a way that served the plot (in my opinion).

Finally, I’ll be honest: I didn’t like the FMC, Pip, and honestly found her pretty insufferable throughout. I did love Ravi, but he was pretty much the only good character, and didn’t get nearly enough page time.

Overall, I’ll probably continue the series because of who I am as a person, but this book was, as I believe the kids say, mid.

CW: Murder/death/violence; animal death; sexual assault/statutory rape; death of parent; emotional abuse; mentions of suicide; drug use; racism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

jazlynenns's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Rape, Blood, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

melaniegrace91's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail