Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

196 reviews

annamay1021'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Grief, Kidnapping, Death, Animal death, Murder, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

claire_leibovitz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Addiction, Murder, Cancer, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Self harm, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Xenophobia, and Terminal illness

chronicloser's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

a fun, quick read with lovable main characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Confinement, and Dementia

autumne0218's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Addiction, Bullying, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Confinement, Drug use, Grief, Sexual assault, Suicide, Murder, and Stalking

sophiegrubben's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

Ravi, my love, you deserved none of the things that happened to you or your family <3 
 

got the murder semi right from pages 75-82 ish and did guess somewhat ish correctly the take that andie might still be alive. the plottwist still hit me like a ton of bricks though. but fuck Elliot you massive creep. Becca I felt sorry for, but Elliot can rot forever. I hope you get everything you deserve xx

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Blood, Child abuse, Stalking, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Violence

samflowerv6's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

“Real men wear floral when trespassing” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Kidnapping, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Murder, Drug use, Mental illness, Blood, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Deadnaming, Confinement, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Rape

wet_towlette's review against another edition

medium-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

3.75

The beginning is really good and the ending is really good. Other than that, the pacing in the middle was definitely off for me. It took me waaaay too long to finish this 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Emotional abuse, Rape, Self harm, Addiction, Bullying, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

seagullsaga's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

3.5

I probably liked this book less than I normally would because I picked it up expecting horror and not a mystery. It was a good book, and enjoyable, just not to my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Bullying, Drug use, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Ableism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

lunar_witch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Car accident, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, Blood, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Self harm, Stalking, Bullying, Body shaming, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Confinement, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

caitlinjohnson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

I didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did.

pip - I know a lot of readers don't really vibe with her or like her as a character and she definitely made a few decisions that were a bit iffy but she's also a teenage girl so it was expected so all in all, I really liked her. Her relationships with her family, Ravi and Cara in particular were amazing to read and some of my favourite scenes.

although I would argue that Barney's death was wholly unnecessary and I did have to skim those pages

the end was a bit too info-dumpy than I would've liked but I loved the message at the end and I LOVED that Ravi and his parents got closure and that Sal had his name cleared. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Animal death, Bullying, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual assault