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Five Survive by Holly Jackson

5 reviews

ghostsversion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Holy shit this book was good. Like whew Holly ya really cooked with this one. I mean from the constant fixation on random stuff to the foreshadowing of stuff from the very beginning, this really was a good thriller mystery. Also the way

I so wanted Oliver to die but in my head being like “nah he’s too nasty to not live” and then him actually dying? ✨Perfect✨

By the way, Red really had me scared for a moment there. Although her talking again with her mom was sweet and all, it was also devastating. Luckily she pushed through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Cursing

Moderate: Vomit and Toxic relationship

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

rylin_marie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Violence, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Cursing, Medical content, and Murder

wrappingpaper's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

My first Holly Jackson read! Truthfully, I found the first half of the book quite slow - it felt like not much was happening. And then, all at once, there was so many plot twists in the last 50 pages or so. 
I liked the characters (some of them anyway) and it’s a shame (spoiler) Red and Arthur didn’t get to be together. Or maybe they did - who knows? We don’t really find out. 
Either way, it was a pretty intense book - there was more death than I expected considering it’s a ya thriller. I didn’t mind tho. I liked the writing - not my favourite style ever, but I might read more of Holly’s books someday :) would recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Police brutality

Minor: Vomit

librarymouse's review against another edition

5.0

I came into this book understanding it to be a thriller. I finished it in tears. This book is a thriller with the most tender human aspects, and shows the sheer variety of reactions people can have to life threatening situations.
Red and her lack of trust in her own memory makes for very interesting narration.

Holly Jackson has a wonderfully immersion way of telling a story. I didn't want to put the book down.

I hated Oliver and I'm glad he's dead. He's so well written. If someone I love was dating someone like him, I'd do everything in my power to remove them from that situation, up to and including doing physical harm to him. The whole family deserved to be knocked down a peg, possibly with the exception of Maddie. I'm glad she's the only one of them to survive. The first read through, I thought the cop shot him, not Arthur's brother. The w iting does a great job capturing the confusion of the situation. Red running at the cop to keep another version of herself being made makes for fantastic full circle character development.

Red's healing moment as she's on the brink of death ending with "...but mom stayed with her, right here in her hand. At the end of all things, mom stayed and so did the stars." had tears rolling down my cheeks.

Having the woman who stood in to be a mom to Red be the person who killed her mom is somewhat expected, but the twist was very well done in this book.

Overall, this is a fantastic book with terrifyingly round characters, fun tropes, and fun twists on tropes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Car accident, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders