Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

598 reviews

rosietoesies's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Kidnapping, Rape, Stalking, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Violence, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Murder, Car accident, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Bullying

Minor: Self harm

hope_mushroom's review against another edition

funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

The things I liked:

• characters, I think they were well build and their actions were realistic. Ravi is such a cool guy and all of friend of Pipp. I quess the two guys friend were kind of useless but I don't mind it honestly. 
• humor, I can't pinpoint exact moment or jokes but just in general there were a lot of good jokes mainly between dad and Pipp and Ravi and Pipp. I chucked a couples of times for real. 
• writing, it was good, easy to understand so that's appreciated. 

So basically I was really invested in story, I liked the characters and I liked the story. 
The only reason why it wasn't a 5 star read is because of the ending, AND DON'T GET ME WRONG I ACTUALLY KINDA LIKE IT BUT,

I think the tempo got too fast at the end. It really felt like the characters were going in circles and Max being the main suspect but then suddenly I'm reading Edwin (this was his name right? Sorry I'm really bad at remembering names) telling the story of his live and how he kidnapped the wrong girl and stuff, and then all the stuff with Bekka. It's hard to remember exactly how Pippa figured it out because it went so quickly. And the whole presentation after was kinda to long for me but that's just me nitpicking. 
The thing I'm wondering is what do you think about Ravi and Pippa being together, I mean clearly that was the goal because they been practically flirting all the time (which was cute) bit I was honestly not expecting them to be official in this book I thought it's gonna be on the next book. I can't wait to start the second part!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Addiction, Blood, Death, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse

swimmerreaderforlife's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Hate crime, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Murder, Child death, Bullying, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Drug use, Eating disorder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

mnm_2005's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring 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

5.0

Has an incredible message!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Body shaming, Bullying, Vomit, Addiction, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Racism

joanna77_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Drug use, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Racism

ursdayanaa's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

JUSTICE FOR BARNEY!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and Drug use

Minor: Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Animal death

pri_lakshmi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Bullying, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, and Child abuse

Minor: Cancer

kyriannaj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Animal death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Car accident, Blood, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Rape, and Murder

Minor: Addiction and Death of parent

ashley_dreaming's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Kidnapping, Islamophobia, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Infidelity, Racism, Alcohol, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Grief, and Hate crime

jloves2read's review against another edition

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

5.0

uhm holy fucking shit, the plot thickening, the back and forth, the twists and turns, just read the book you’ll love it hands down

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Drug use

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Grief, Bullying, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Rape