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Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

33 reviews

anne_reader's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Cannibalism, Abandonment, Cursing, Cancer, Medical content, Death of parent, Grief, Drug use, Terminal illness, Sexism, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Death, and Classism

tdubs57's review

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Was just kinda meh? I didn’t hate it, wasn’t excited by it either? Somehow wasn’t what I was expecting it to be either.  The action scenes moved so quickly it felt like whiplash and the rest of the book felt slow to me. I went like a week without picking it up. Like there was a lot to unpack with this story and it’s many characters and yet I still feel like something was missing. These characters are messy as hell. I think the lesson here is don’t travel with someone you just met, ya know, stranger danger.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, and Drug use

katyannreads's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cancer, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Death

fiction_addiction_1994's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

Trigger ⚠️: Cancer (mentions), DUI (Cause of Death)
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•What did I think of this book? (Mult. Timeline POV)
This was a great summer read. Six people on a cursed island, everyone with a motive, an excuse to visit this shipwreck, and known cannibalism  even with people going crazy isn't actually a vacation make. But that's what their looking for a place to unplug, relax, and forget. But, even Reckless Girls can't stay calm for 2 weeks.. Maybe Karma has finally come, and they can reclaim what is theirs; but everything has a price...and not everyone plays fair. I would recommend this, especially as a vacation read. 😊
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•Quotes:
~'In the After' -p.19

~ 'There will always be a before and an after, and you have to learn to live in the after.' -p.60

~ 'It still looks like paradise,  but I know now that it's hell.'

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer and Cannibalism

faythfarrar's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Cannibalism and Cancer

cpachet's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This is my first Rachel Hawkins, had zero expectations going in. The plot moved quickly, I liked the multiple POVs looking back. Interesting twists and I wasn’t mad at the ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Car accident, Cancer, Drug use, Violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Stalking

bre88's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

It's a solid beach read or one for a lazy Sunday. Do not expect to be wowed by a twist in this one.  The story is about what you would expect - the characters are just interesting enough, the setting is beautiful and the pacing is at a clip that makes you feel like you should finish it. With that being said, it's a bit slow in the middle when the author attempts to build tension and mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Drug use, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Gun violence, and Infidelity

goodgollymissmollee's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was really fun and I enjoyed it A LOT. However, the “thriller” aspect felt like an after thought tacked onto the end and I think I would have enjoyed it more without that portion. 

The book really didn’t even get rolling until there was only like 40 pages left and everything happened SO QUICKLY. Nothing was fleshed out and it felt so disjointed. Like it was an entirely different book I’d just stumbled into. 

First like 70% was 5 stars. The ending was like 1 star. So here we are at a 4.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Infidelity, Murder, Toxic friendship, Death, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Cancer, Gun violence, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

readrelatable's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I finished this book in 24 hours, only putting it down when I absolutely had to. Something about Rachel Hawkins’ writing made me keep writing. I loved the character development, however the format was tricky at first and I was confused about the flashbacks in the beginning. I loved this book, and have already recommended it to friends. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Toxic friendship, Drug use, and Cancer

ravenpuff's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Confinement

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Minor: Cancer, Cannibalism, Car accident, Drug use, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Blood, and Body horror