Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

180 reviews

fanboyriot's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

♡ Cold Case

♡ Feminine Rage

♡ How to Get Away with Murder

Wow, what a roller coaster this book was.  The most tense out of the series for sure.  I got through the first part then quickly worried how everything would come together by the end.  Which I’m super happy with how this ended.  Everything came full circle and it was so satisfying to read even if some parts were anxiety inducing.  Pip really slayed with her last case (pun may or may not be intended).

And yes, this book also has stunning formatting with all the extra details in the design of the book.  I absolutely loved this series and highly recommend it.

Spice Level: n/a

POV: First Person

Release Date: 28, September 2021

Rep: BIPOC (Main and Side Characters)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Violence, Murder, Cursing, Kidnapping, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Stalking, Gore, Addiction, Death, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Animal death, and Mental illness

Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Child death, Suicide, Vomit, and Physical abuse

rorlav22's review against another edition

This book was extremely hard to get through. I rarely DNF a book - I don’t remember the last time I did - but I had to stop with this one for a couple reasons: **SPOILER ALERT**

1) the reveal and in-depth explanation of how Barney (the dog) was murdered - this, to me, is so unnecessary and animal murder is something that completely turns me off from books. I didn’t like this in the first book, and the expansion and increased violence of it in this book is even worse.
2) Pip has COMPLETELY changed from who she was. Granted, she has gone through some life-altering things, but becoming a jaded individual who puts herself above others (not caring that there’s an innocent man in prison for DT’s murders to save herself from going to jail when she did commit manslaughter as an act of almost-self-defense) is so far from the character she was that it’s hard to empathize with her or want to continue to see her path in this story.

Overall, I think there was unnecessary violence that was disturbing and didn’t add to the plot, as well as character development that didn’t seem true to who the character was at their core.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, Animal death, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, and Stalking

Moderate: Mental illness

ellarae0111's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

5.0

Amazing end to an amazing series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Suicide, Abandonment, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Child death, Death of parent, Rape, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Grief, Hate crime, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Vomit, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexism

teddy_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Murder, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Confinement, Drug use, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Addiction

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexism, Cursing, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty

rachelcotter1's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

charlottesrkive's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

I hurt so much for Pip, that whole book was a rollercoaster of emotions and I am so not okay after that ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Drug use, Vomit, Murder, Mental illness, and Blood

islas_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark 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

4.25

I absolutely loved this book. An Instagram reel spoiled the ending for me but it did not make it any less gripping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, and Stalking

your_geekygf's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

2.0

This book is a CRAWL. Took me so long to finish it and It was such a let down after the second one. The only redeeming quality is the end of part 1. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Stalking, Mental illness, and Violence

This book is definitely the darkest of all three books with Pip suffering from some very intense PTSD and anxiety. Be warned! But this book is different from the other two in that it features way more narration from Pip and less dialogue and photos/interview transcripts etc.

taniasborges'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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Death, Confinement, Gaslighting, Violence, Stalking, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

sunny_not's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Why is this book even classified as Y/A when it's too heavy and too dark.

She literally covers up a murder by dr*gging someone and putting their DNA all over the place. Obviously we want the bad guys to get what they deserve but I don't know if this was the way to go about it.  Her not running away made sense since he was a big threat and could catch her as she was running away and I understand that Max is also a big threat to all young women but the way she went about this was a bit insane in my opinion. There were so many things that could've gone wrong and that should've gone wrong. I don't buy that she and Ravi were able to clean all her DNA at all.  I like that Max is in jail for his murder but it wasn't believable in my opinion.

Overall an interesting ending although feels a bit poorly planned. Feels like many things were added later on just for the sake of the surprise element. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Drug use, Mental illness, and Murder