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Przewodnik po zbrodni według grzecznej dziewczynki by Holly Jackson

175 reviews

meganemarshall's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

4.75 rating. But it can definitely be round up.
I started this book right around midnight, and I am finishing at 6 in the morning. I could not stop reading this book. The mystery was so well written. It had so many twists to the story. I annotate my mystery books, and I write in the books my thoughts and theories throughout reading the book. I did start to piece things together of what happened. However, there were enough breadcrumbs and shroud of doubt that I was still surprised with the ending. 

I really like that while reading this, I would have a conclusion about a piece of evidence, and Pip would be drawing those same conclusions on the next page. The main character she didn't feel like a moron. It really felt like both the MC and I were putting together the puzzle and figuring it out together. There was no missing very obvious piece of evidence. It was really well written for a mystery novel. 

The ending of the book was really sad. It wasn't so clear-cut about who the bad guys were and their villainous reasons. The crime wasn't sensationalized. It felt like something that could absolutely happen in any town. 

I really appreciated a mystery book that was about the mystery. There were cute family moments, cute friend moments, and cute romancey moments, but that didn't overpower the fact that this book was about a mystery and stayed true to that. It always sucks reading a mystery book where the middle 150 pages are about the main character missing her boyfriend or something when you just want to be focused on the mystery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, and Animal death

madi_neel's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Grief, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Kidnapping, Eating disorder, and Body shaming

sophieprime's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

kayla_hehe's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

I wouldn’t necessarily suggest this book to anyone, I wouldn’t read it again, but I didn’t totally hate it. The whole premise was so unrealistic, and I don’t know a single public high school in America that would have a capstone project to graduate. There were moments where I was like oooh ok I like where this is going but the author would wrap that storyline up in the next chapter and move on from it entirely. Just overall felt forced and unrealistic. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual assault, Bullying, Car accident, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Suicide, and Dementia

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

madflatt's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Dementia, Death, Confinement, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Stalking, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Car accident

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I liked it. A good feel to the book and I enjoyed the twists and turns as you accuse different people and you try to work it out. I wasn’t amazingly keen on the ending - I feel like it was a bit of a let down but I did enjoy it. Not sure I’d pick up book 2 hence why not 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Confinement, Pedophilia, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Murder

moondaisyy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Death, Gun violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal death

sabrinahlkr's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse and Rape

Minor: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, and Stalking

ksamaine95's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

thrilling, misleading, complicated, and fully serving the gullible persistence of the YA audience.  

50% mark i didn’t know if i could/would continue, the repetition and messy plot twists were hitting a nerve. 

but we’ll worth seeing it through in the end! 

low key villains i’d like to see about in the sequel: the rookie cop & his wife, andie’s dad, definitely naomi and the loser journalist steve. i need them to get some straightening with all their closet skeletons

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, Murder, and Hate crime

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual violence