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Five Survive by Holly Jackson

55 reviews

jessboyd05's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, Cursing, Gore, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Infidelity

beightmana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Classism, Blood, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Mass/school shootings

alexiconic's review against another edition

4.0

When describing or reviewing this book I mostly think “nice”. Five Survive was a very nice book. The suspense was great, the character conflicts were nice, the twists were good, the build-up was cool, the representation of grief and adhd-like experiences of red was good. It wasn’t perfect - sometimes the repetition (although clearly purposeful) was  too much for me, some of the character relations could’ve been more fleshed out, sometimes the pacing was a bit inconsistent - but it was a good, enjoyable, nice thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Blood, Gun violence, Bullying, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Murder

luca97's review against another edition

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, Murder, and Gun violence

vivianstory's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

This was one of the best reads of this year! A very tense and thrilling story! The characters where all very interesting and at some point you are rooting for at least one of them and are against someone else! I really enjoyed how discriptive and intense the sense where and I am looking forward to read more of Holly Jacksons books!

(Spoiler about one character down below)

Oliver was really the most unlikeable character even though he was written extremely well. Every time he opened his mouth I just wanted him to shut up. He just made things so much more complicated and only cared about himself. In the end he was really scary. But he also made the threat that much more real!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Grief

lomahongva's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

xvicesx's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.5

Solid performance by Holly Jackson, but not up to the level of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. 

I think the pacing of the second part of the book was much better than the beginning. This took a very long time to clear its throat, metaphorically speaking, and I was quite bored with everything by the time things really started to get spicy. 

That said, the mystery was very well done, and the ambiguous ending was quite good to my mind. 

For those worried about Red's apparent rambling thoughts, I'd likely say she's got ADHD. It sounds like it, with the fixations and the lack of object permanence. Just go in with an open mind and a bit of kindness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Blood, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Grief and Blood

Minor: Infidelity and Alcohol

anjh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

oh my god. wow. how do i put all my thoughts about this book into one review. the amount of times i was holding my breath or about to beat up oliver (fuck oliver) through the page or getting literal shivers down my spine. this thriller was THRILLING let me tell you, holly jackson has some way of keeping you guessing and keeping you on the edge of your seat wondering “then who is it?? what?? how??” and suddenly a few pages down the track everything makes sense and slots into place and you beat yourself up for not realising sooner how holly tricked you and played with your mind through her writing, to make you believe and empathise with characters that were actually plotting violence and silently hating characters that were completely innocent. there were a few points in this book - particularly towards the start - where i almost felt like the writing style was similar to that of a poorly written wattpad fanfiction just because of the way holly has chosen to repeat seemingly useless details over and over and over again and i was thinking “why on earth is this relevant??” but thinking about it in more detail and reading online analyses of this book it makes sense that red is so detail focused and obsessive likely as a result of trauma. 

i love red so much and can relate to her a lot and i hate oliver. i really hate oliver. fuck oliver. oliver sucks. the light blue tabs are “fuck oliver” tabs. oh and the letter at the end oh my god holly jackson will be paying for my therapy after this. ***PLS CHECK THE CONTENT WARNINGS IF UR THINKING OF READING!!***

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gun violence, Bullying, Body horror, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Medical content, Murder, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Cancer and Confinement

tabea1409's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gore, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

yalipopcultureads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Gun violence, Grief, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse