Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

159 reviews

redempta's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

5 🌟

It's my first murder mystery book and i loved it. The writing, the format, the intrigue were perfect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, Pedophilia, and Kidnapping

icedlemonade's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

IT WAS MR WARD I SWEAR I NEVER WOULDVE GUESSED

I would give this book as many stars as I could, all of it goes to Holly Jackson herself, the wonderful author of this masterpiece 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Rape, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness

Minor: Vomit, Self harm, and Racism

ellarae0111's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Kidnapping, Blood, Sexual violence, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Outing, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, Violence, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Rape, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Medical content, Bullying, Death, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

nia_readsalot's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, Alcohol, Drug use, Addiction, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Emotional abuse

seraphine_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

5.0

Detective stories aren’t my genre. But this thing was incredible!!! I wasn’t sure about the format and as I said even the genre when I started but it was on our book club challenge. It took a little time but the way this story GRABBED me by the neck and didn’t let go was unreal! I stayed up till 2 am listening to it and had it on 1,75 speed just cause I couldn’t bare to not know what happened next faster!! Seriously even if this isn’t what you usually go for give it a try. This book might’ve convinced me to read more detectives stories! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Car accident

Moderate: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Murder, Racism, Addiction, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Rape, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Racism, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

addssubract's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Vomit, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Sexism, and Kidnapping

tea_kettle's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

the pacing was wacko and a die was annoying but the story was insteresting, i wish the ending was slower paced 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Car accident, Murder, Blood, Vomit, and Animal death

Moderate: Mental illness, Death, Bullying, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Confinement, Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Self harm

niamhlovesbooks28's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Car accident, Grief, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Death, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, and Addiction

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Self harm, and Mental illness

teawitchontravel's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Cursing, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Death, Trafficking, Violence, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Bullying, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Rape, Addiction, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Sexism, Death of parent, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Personally didn't like it. Idea was good execution wasn't and characters (especially mc) were annoying and stupid.

kirsten_marie's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Animal death, Kidnapping, Murder, Car accident, Child death, Confinement, Mental illness, Suicide, and Adult/minor relationship