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Five Survive by Holly Jackson

19 reviews

inkycat's review

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

babsi_222's review

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

I HATE OLIVER SO FUCKING MUCH

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Blood, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, and Violence

hannah_mariee's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

lucypoppleton6's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

CREEPY 
ANNOYING
CREEPY
SCARY
CREEPY
WIT’S END
CREEPY

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Alcohol, Gun violence, Blood, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Kidnapping, Stalking, and Gaslighting

khloereads86's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Infidelity, Gore, Cursing, Blood, Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Confinement, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, and Gun violence

Moderate: Stalking and Alcoholism

Minor: Torture

bookishgoob's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Gore, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Stalking, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Medical trauma, Violence, Alcoholism, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Classism, Murder, Blood, Torture, and Toxic friendship

laurenevlyn's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Holly Jackson has quickly risen on the list of my favorite authors with the agggtm and now this. I love the way everything that’s been building up comes together at the end, even though there’s so much. Other authors struggle with plot twists when’s there’s more than a few in a row, but I think it was done wonderfully here. Even though it’s a standalone, I find myself wanting more of Red and Arthur’s story. Also great job making the most insufferable character I’ve ever read (on purpose I know), and keeping his, and the other characters’ flaws consistent throughout. All in all a wonderful read, although it seemed a bit drawn out at times. Great first book of the year!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death of parent, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Minor: Stalking, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical trauma

leahhmorriss's review against another edition

challenging 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This fucking book. Omg I loved it so much. Holly Jackson is an absolutely amazing author and every one of her books have been 5 stars. 
From start to finish this book had me so stressed out. I loved the plot; the characters and the way the entire book took place within 8 hours (which I did manage to read it in). I liked that there was only one setting so it was really easy to imagine exactly how the whole thing looked. 

Now for the plot twist. I had a tiny feeling it was going to be Arthur from about 1/4 way through. I just thought it was too good to be true that he was so nice (which I was actually kinda wrong about). To be fair, it’s hard to trust anyone in Holly’s books as we’ve learned from the past. I even suspected Red at one point. I absolutely hated Oliver so much. He deserved what he got after what he put Red, Maddy and everyone else through. The one thing I did not expect is for Maddy and Oliver’s mom to be part of the mafia and the one who murdered Red’s mom??? Omg plot. Twist. 
Anyway, I am an Arthur apologist and I really believe he liked Red and wanted to protect her. The ending had me sobbing with the letter he wrote for her. For the sake of my own mental health, I’m choosing to believe that they reunited and fell in love and the mafia protected her. 
What is it with Holly Jackson and leaving romantic cliff hangers?? (I miss you Ravi and Pip <\3)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Murder, Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Stalking

lynsstrange's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Stalking, Gun violence, Cursing, Gore, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, and Grief