Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

1094 reviews

spellbindingtomes's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Body shaming, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Drug use, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Sexual assault, Grief, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Rape, and Racial slurs

keayra_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Vomit, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Rape

Minor: Racism

karlin0336's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Ending was action-packed and left me intrigued enough that I plan on reading the next book, but it took me over half the book to really get into it.  Some parts were pretty dark too (content warnings are the most I can do without completely spoiling it --- it was just overall a very tense and very sad read at times).  Plot twists surrounding the investigation were fun, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cursing, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Rape, Alcohol, Animal death, Vomit, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Suicide

gaymoonreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Murder, Drug abuse, Animal death, Alcohol, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, and Kidnapping

Minor: Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, and Sexual assault

pianokeys's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Cursing, Bullying, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Stalking, Fatphobia, Rape, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Suicide, Death, Child death, Grief, Alcohol, Murder, Death of parent, Car accident, Sexism, Body shaming, Addiction, Animal death, Racism, and Mental illness

bboyshow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.0

It's the first book in the trilogy and I really liked it. Even though I found out the killer before hand, still the book was great. I would highly recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Sexual assault, Rape, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Blood, Alcohol, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Bullying

lovingsweetcheeks's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Death, and Rape

Moderate: Suicide

kenzie_simone456's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Child death

Moderate: Drug abuse and Rape

cherlin's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

 ⋆⭒˚｡⋆ 4.25/5 stars.

"Mi club de homeworko es su club de homeworko."

Mostly spoiler free. Spoilers will be in the 2nd paragraph of the "what I didn't like" section. This book was actually pretty good. I personally enjoyed it from beginning to (sort of) end, and I really, really liked the actual mystery part of it. I'll be excluding the plot summary because the synopsis of this book tells you everything you need to know.

───── ⑅ the protagonists ⑅ ─────

Pippa Fitz-Amobi, our wonderful smart girl with a soda brand name. It could have been ANY name. Why Pippa? Christ. Anyway, Pip as a character was a little bit annoying at times. She was very good at piecing information together, which makes one wonder why the police, who are literal professionals, couldn't do what she did, but whateverrrr. Pip constantly puts herself in danger for the sake of solving Andie's murder case, and she's very clearly obsessed with it. She's extremely impulsive and struggles with communication.

Ravi Singh! I don't have much to say about him. He was very understanding with Pip, and was initially sane enough to understand that maybe getting this random girl from his brother's old school to deeply involve herself in a closed-case investigation wasn't the safest idea ever. Other than that, he was a relatively simple character who had a habit of scratching his head every time he was confused or nervous and always liked to crack jokes.

───── ⑅ what I liked ⑅ ─────

The way this story is formatted was really fun to me. We have some "chapters" dedicated to her entries for her project. Interviews are written down like transcripts. It really helps with the feeling that you're solving the case alongside the characters, and they're not doing it all for you. All the information we learned was learned with Pip. She never knew more than us.

This was also a very very easy read, and I think it'd be difficult for a book like this to put you in a slump. With how fast paced it is and how short the chapters usually were, I can't say I ever really found myself bored. It was really hard to stop myself from wanting to keep going every time I finished a chapter.

───── ⑅ what I didn't like ⑅ ─────

While I guess I should have expected it because it's YA, I didn't really like the writing that much. I found it really cringy sometimes and just overall immature, though that could have also been because the characters are all high schoolers...but they're seniors? So I don't know; I just didn't really like it that much. The adult characters in this book didn't feel like adults, especially Pip's father. 

The ending is where this fell off for me. I was shocked when I learned who had done everything (I was too slow to guess it lol), but I found it VERY strange that

after being told by who she suspected was Andie's killer than her suspicions were all true, she says that she will FORGIVE them and tries to help them by telling them to run away because the police will eventually find out??? you're telling me you're going to forgive the person who got your VERY LOVED dog killed and used him as blackmail to stop you from figuring out what they did??? you're telling me that even after being drugged and almost killed, you still wanted them to get away scot free??? It doesn't matter what kind of person Andie was, murder isn't right, lol.

And then at the very end, where she was giving that speech or whatever with Ravi? I'm sorry but it was just so cliche and cheesy I did NOT vibe with that. Anyway, it was a great read, I will be reading the next one whenever I get to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual assault, Animal death, Bullying, and Rape

Minor: Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, and Death of parent