Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

680 reviews

addisonrutherford09's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

This book was amazing. I've never read any sort of murder mystery or crime novel before and this book was incredible. I must admit, I read this book in a matter of a day and a half and stayed up much to late reading it. 
First of all, I really loved how this book was written with Pip's journal/notes making up a large part of the writing. The way the book was narrarated was incredibly real and nothing about the characters, setting or plot felt fake or forced at all. 
Second of all, the plot twists and writing through out the novel gave me shivers multiple times. It was scary at times and I loved it!
This book was not slow at all amd as I mentioned before, it had me from the first page till the end, which did not disappoint.
I definitely would recommend this book to anyone, regardless of their experience with murder, crime or mystery novels! It's amazing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Addiction, Drug use, Vomit, Bullying, Cursing, Stalking, and Suicide

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Gore, Blood, Confinement, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Grief, Hate crime, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Mental illness, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, and Emotional abuse

ohmosh's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad tense slow-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

4.0

A bit long winded but very detailed 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Rape, and Drug abuse

kat221's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Rape, and Kidnapping

madelinedalton's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

A super fast-paced and fun murder mystery that definitely helped me on my journey to get out of this damn reading slump!

While solving the murder itself was engaging, I think the characterization was lacking. Pip has no discernible qualities besides an insatiable need to solve crime, and there’s no compelling motivation for why she is this way besides that she always felt like something was off about the case. Her friendship with Ravi was endearing on the surface, but it had no substance to get me emotionally invested. 

I did clock Mr. Ward as the killer pretty early on, but then forgot about it until Pip found the note in her locker. Thank god there was a follow-up twist after Pip turned him in—I would’ve been far more disappointed in the ending had Mr. Ward been the only killer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Blood

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Drug abuse, Suicide, Animal death, Car accident, Death of parent, and Rape

lilybug20724's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

It gets better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide, Racism, Sexual assault, and Drug use

gkaltam'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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Blood, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual assault

jojothefool's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I felt like the end was a little clunky and just very

“oh no you caught me I did it here’s my whole plan and story laid out bit by bit” which just doesn’t seem realistic I guess?? Like unless it’s the cops questioning you? Idk. I was also a bit I guess disappointed in Pip after what happens with Barney I thought she’d be super pissed and use it like a revenge moment instead of stopping the investigation. I guess I read her character wrong? She just seemed very steadfast and headstrong with everything else, it was weird for her to suddenly stop I think

overall a very fun and entertaining time however 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child death, Murder, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Racism, Animal death, Rape, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Stalking

Minor: Self harm

There are no explicitly described rape scenes, but drugged rape is discussed and brought up throughout the novel

lenaricharz's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Sexual assault, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, and Rape

Minor: Cancer and Death of parent

milly33's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I was curious to know what all the hype was about this book, so I decided to give it a read; it really does live up to the praise it gets. It was a page turner from start to finish. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Hate crime

mcathbaker's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring sad 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Murder, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Self harm, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Sexual violence