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The Legacies by Jessica Goodman

18 reviews

lazstearns's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

The Legacies is, unfortunately, not Goodman’s strongest work, with its “twists” playing out fairly predictably. It touches lightly on social class issues, but overall stays firmly a shallow teen mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Moderate: Murder, Death of parent, Blood, Death, and Classism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Another fantastic thriller!! I loved this one!! It was suspenseful and tense and I couldn’t stop guessing!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Murder, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment

mag_doll's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Alcoholism

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Vomit

madyvaughn's review

challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book would have been five stars for me if it didn’t have all the drugs, alcohol, and cheating. Usually I can do alcohol in books but they way one of the characters used it was not okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

alykate's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Classism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Death

caitlyn_kittle_kinnick's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Death of parent, Addiction, Death, Toxic relationship, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Alcohol

jillkaarlela's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? N/A

3.25

Taylor Swift songs: “Look What You Made Me Do”

Age rating: 14+ (No sexual content, but language, violence, substance abuse)

I wouldn’t say this is my favorite Jessica Goodman book, but I thought this was still good! The rich private school setting with an elite club was an interesting concept! I think having 3 different POVs made it a little difficult to keep up at first, but eventually I was able to keep up and make sense of it. I do think it was a very interesting choice to not even reveal who died until the very end! This book did keep me guessing and had many turns I would not have expected! Overall, it was pretty good! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Drug use, Alcoholism, Death, and Drug abuse

haleybre's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Death of parent, Alcohol, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Grief, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Sexual content, Vomit, Classism, Bullying, and Fire/Fire injury

libraryghost's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

notlikethebeer's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

This was fun enough! It was interesting and fairly layered, keeping me gripped throughout - I particularly liked the way that the 'on the night' sections kept you guessing as to who had fallen. There was also a lot of interesting stuff about class, and a little about addiction, although the latter could have been better explored maybe. I don't think it's Jessica Goodman's best, and some of the twists were a bit predictable, but definitely not a bad read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Classism