Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

28 reviews

annamwallace66'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gaslighting, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

cecilie_allison's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death of parent, Gun violence, Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Addiction, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Infidelity

myappleconpizza's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

It was so unbearably slow  😒.  I almost gave up becase it seemed as if nothing was progressing a quarter into it. After

it's revealed that the signal is coming from someone inside the RV, it speeds up tho.

Red was an annoying character, and so was Maddy. However, i did come to appreciate their quirks once conflict arose. Maddy is still not redeemed from

siding with her brother, who obviously had problems, over Red.

Compared to AGGGTM tho, the book is lacking. 🫡 a nice read by the end but not re-readble ❤️‍🩹

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Mental illness, Death of parent, and Vomit

kcohrs19's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Torture, Death, Gore, Blood, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Mental illness

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

kiryomi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness and Gun violence

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

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

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I just didn’t want to put this book down, I needed to know what happened next! Filled with red herrings and clues dropped along the way, I had a fun time trying to figure out the culprits.

That being said, I was not a fan of Red as a character and didn’t feel connected to her at all. All of her forgetful, scatterbrained-ness didn’t seem to be helpful to building her as a character and seemed only to be used as plot mechanism more than anything else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, and Violence

i_love_fob's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Gore

Minor: Police brutality