Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

452 reviews

sammybee's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

Amazing!!!! 🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Death, Animal cruelty, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident, Self harm, and Bullying

Minor: Rape

sjepp's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-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

4.0

This book is bussin. Took me a minute to get into it. I haven’t been on a fiction kick in a hot minute, but I can honest to goodness tell you I was hooked after page 67. When Pip shares her four theories of the murder, I knew I’d finish the book before the day was over

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Drug use, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Medical trauma, Bullying, Body shaming, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship

hootypocket's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Kidnapping, Stalking, Vomit, Animal death, Rape, Death of parent, Drug use, Pedophilia, and Emotional abuse

erinjade_3's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, and Racism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Suicide, Death, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault

fantastiskfiktion's review

dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Murder, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Gaslighting, Cancer, Vomit, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Body shaming

isaile's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual assault, Bullying, Sexism, and Child death

Minor: Grief, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Stalking, Violence, Dementia, Racism, and Kidnapping

garlicbread247's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Animal death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Drug use, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Self harm, Rape, and Death of parent

jimothyj's review

adventurous 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Animal death

ksamaine95's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

thrilling, misleading, complicated, and fully serving the gullible persistence of the YA audience.  

50% mark i didn’t know if i could/would continue, the repetition and messy plot twists were hitting a nerve. 

but we’ll worth seeing it through in the end! 

low key villains i’d like to see about in the sequel: the rookie cop & his wife, andie’s dad, definitely naomi and the loser journalist steve. i need them to get some straightening with all their closet skeletons

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, Murder, and Hate crime

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual violence

eclipse_the_bookworm's review

adventurous 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

This book kept me guessing right until the last page! I couldn’t put it down

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Murder, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Car accident, Self harm, Addiction, Rape, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent