Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Meurtre mode d'emploi by Holly Jackson

375 reviews

crieraylas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Confinement, Eating disorder, Self harm, and Alcohol

camillagrace's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Suicide, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Stalking

kellies_7831's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug abuse, Racism, Stalking, Car accident, and Murder

liciaaaaa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicide, Kidnapping, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

sar_lion's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-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

4.5

It's been a while since, I've read this (Just finished a reread). I love this book, the mystery is riveting and made me not want to put in down. The characters were very well-written and fully fleshed out. I can't remember if I figured out who did it, but I think I had an idea. Which just made me want to keep reading it to see if I was right. There are so many details that come into play later on in the series that made me gasp. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Vomit, Grief, and Murder

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

Minor: Body shaming and Mental illness

ktdaugherty's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, and Murder

staceyinthesticks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

addisonrutherford09's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

5.0

This book was amazing. I've never read any sort of murder mystery or crime novel before and this book was incredible. I must admit, I read this book in a matter of a day and a half and stayed up much to late reading it. 
First of all, I really loved how this book was written with Pip's journal/notes making up a large part of the writing. The way the book was narrarated was incredibly real and nothing about the characters, setting or plot felt fake or forced at all. 
Second of all, the plot twists and writing through out the novel gave me shivers multiple times. It was scary at times and I loved it!
This book was not slow at all amd as I mentioned before, it had me from the first page till the end, which did not disappoint.
I definitely would recommend this book to anyone, regardless of their experience with murder, crime or mystery novels! It's amazing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Vomit, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Cultural appropriation

foodtabas's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.25

Points taken off for making me cry over Barney (if u know u know). Great book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Rape, and Stalking

madelinedalton's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

3.5

A super fast-paced and fun murder mystery that definitely helped me on my journey to get out of this damn reading slump!

While solving the murder itself was engaging, I think the characterization was lacking. Pip has no discernible qualities besides an insatiable need to solve crime, and there’s no compelling motivation for why she is this way besides that she always felt like something was off about the case. Her friendship with Ravi was endearing on the surface, but it had no substance to get me emotionally invested. 

I did clock Mr. Ward as the killer pretty early on, but then forgot about it until Pip found the note in her locker. Thank god there was a follow-up twist after Pip turned him in—I would’ve been far more disappointed in the ending had Mr. Ward been the only killer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, Rape, Suicide, Car accident, and Death of parent