Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

68 reviews

maddison20's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Stalking, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Medical content, Rape, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Kidnapping, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Cursing, Medical content, Mental illness, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Murder

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

Is this  truly a five-star I don’t know, but it made me cry like a lot so that Has to count for something. I just really enjoyed this and I just really like pip. It was very mysterious and also kind of creepy. I did kind of guess one plot but like that doesn’t decrease anything for me. I don’t know I think I just read this at the perfect time I still can’t even believe I cried

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Violence, Child abuse, Car accident, Child death, Gun violence, Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

tabea1409's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexual violence

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I don’t care how inept a police department is, they’re not going to sit around and let an 18 year old girl and her high school friends traipse through potential crime scenes, create search parties, and investigate a possible missing person/murder. It’s wildly unbelievable and yet, somehow, you forget all of that and just pay attention to the fact that Pip has an uncanny way of reading the clues to solve big puzzles no one else can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infidelity, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Rape, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

ephemeralzen's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Blood, Racism, Sexual violence, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Rape

gothmiku's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Kidnapping

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Rape, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Car accident, Death of parent, Animal death, Bullying, and Cancer

rabiyar7's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

Bloody brilliant. I just LOVED this book, I really didn't know how it would end and if the build was even going to lead to something... But the twists and turns and reveals! Gosh! I also didn't expect it to be so sinister, I'm kinda spooked lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Stalking, and Child death

Minor: Hate crime, Kidnapping, Drug use, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

Like the first book in the series, this was also an incredible book. I did find it to be a little less together than 'A Good Girls Guide to Murder' but I still absolutely loved the book. The characters and the plot line were well planned and executed. I watch and read a lot of crime based shows, movies and books and often find myself working out the ending way before I reach it but with this, there were so many options and twists that I found myself guessing over and over again as the plot developed.

Again, the audiobook only added to my reading experience with this book as it is a full cast audiobook but it also has phone calls as actual phone calls, when Pip is reading from her case notes, you can hear the movement of paper, when she records conversations, you can hear the equipment whirring and beeping etc. The audiobook was a fully immersive experience and it was brilliant. I also really enjoyed hearing elements of the podcast created by Pip in this book, it was a clever continuation from the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Blood, Child death, Gaslighting, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Rape, Stalking, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment

bill_nai_bxtch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This was an amazing read! The only reason this one isn’t getting 5 stars is because everything came together too quickly in the end compared to the first book. It also seemed to come out of nowhere, but it was still written so well and gave me the shock of the century. Definitely wasn’t expecting this ending. Worth the read!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Cancer, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Fatphobia

tsked_off's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual assault