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Grzeczna dziewczynka musi zginąć by Holly Jackson

293 reviews

tarlie_12_xoxo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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, Violence, Murder, Stalking, Addiction, Drug use, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

justmeandmybooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, and Stalking

Moderate: Rape, Addiction, and Drug use

Minor: Animal death

_happilyeverafter_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

I couldn’t put the book aside, such a plot twist for the series! Pip’s decision making really stressed me out though…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

pearly_2008's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is my roman empire its just wtf did i just read i was shocked for weeks and i can't even think about the ending with a straight face. Holly Jackson what is this ending i need therapy bcs of this open ending i hate you for this

i need to know what happened to pip and ravi the best couple on earth and in the universe

. Other than that the details.

holly jackson you're a goddamn serial killer how could a normal person write this book??? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Addiction, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Murder, Hate crime, and Violence

This book is traumatic i can't get over it

amortentiaa's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

oh my god

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Body horror, Gore, Stalking, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Drug use, Addiction, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

paige_turner09's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

One of the best books I have ever read, the ending ties the whole series together, adding connections to all the books that we thought were finished. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Stalking, Kidnapping, Addiction, Violence, Murder, and Cursing

laurenbaggy's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Death, Confinement, Violence, Drug abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Vomit

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

SIX STARS

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Gun violence, Blood, Stalking, Mental illness, Death, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Rape, Addiction, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit, Physical abuse, Animal death, and Car accident

pagesandtales's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Drug use, Rape, and Addiction

hollyheartless's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Honestly, I don’t know how I feel about this

I will say I’ve loved this trilogy as a whole, I’ve loved how it’s developed and how the character development (especially in Pip) has been a crucial point over the three books and that Jackson’s writing style has adapted over the course to match this. Starting as an innocent and curious Pip slowly becoming darker and darker and picking up a hell of a lot of emotional trauma and baggage along the way. 

However, I do feel like this book has left me with some questions and issues. 

(Spoilers ahead)




I can’t get behind Pip actually killing Jason, I feel like it didn’t suit her character at all. I get the logic behind it and how she was tired of a government that had failed her and rightly how terrified she must have been but surely when she’d escaped there was a better solution? Even if she did go back, surely just knocking him out in some way or even breaking a bone so he couldn’t escape and then keeping him there until she could get someone would make more sense. 

Then, not only did she kill someone, she got all her friends and our sweet innocent loveable Labrador boy Ravi involved in the cover up. It just felt so selfish of Pip to even risk any of them getting caught because of her. And then after all of this, she then goes and cuts off everyone who helped her anyway because it was ‘safer for them’ I cannot forgive and forget that description of Ravi’s cries. I honestly feel like this book made me dislike Pip’s character which, if that was its intention, then it worked but I can’t imagine why. Also the book itself felt unresolved, I needed like another chapter that just kind of went into how life went on beyond this point or maybe a meet up of everyone. It just felt a bit anticlimactic to end this high intensity trilogy with just a text. 

Overall, I have loved this series but I do honestly feel like the plot quality did drop between books 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Violence, Death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexual assault, Addiction, Cursing, Grief, Rape, and Drug abuse

Minor: Vomit