Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

909 reviews

theycallmerash's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Grief, Murder

Minor: Suicide

asyakilic23's review

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol

luxxltyd's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug use

abbypeekreads's review against another edition

4.5

mysterious tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Murder

hesa_is_a_kiwi's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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the plot is insane - i could not recall it now if you asked me. (at least not exactly).
it was extremely suspenseful and i binge-read the last third of it, because i simply could NOT put it away. 

it is super interesting how this book (series) deals with the idea of "good" and "bad" - noone is really completely "good" and noone is thoroughly "bad" either. 

apart from that i also love how holly jackson plays with the formatting in suspenseful scenes, and her writing style is (apart from genius and very clear-cut) also full of metaphors. i love it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Rape

katwebb's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

krig30's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicide

ross_emm's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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I read the first AGGGTM book in late 2021 and for some reason never finished off this series, but boy am I glad I am now! I appreciated how easy this story was to get in to, not much information is needed from the previous book but they still have a very strong connection. 

Honestly my main (and really only) qualm with this book is how young Pip is! It's hard for me to wrap my head her only being 17/18, like hello adults in her life help her??? why is pip chasing down murders and solving misssing persons cases before graduating high school!?

I do love the additional case files, podcast excerpts, and photos added in really keeps me in the action. Jamie is an intriguing character and I loved getting to learn about him!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, Blood, Kidnapping

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury

bluvlvt's review against another edition

5.0

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Violence, Alcohol

Minor: Toxic friendship

emlawley's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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After I devoured the first book of this series, I couldn’t wait to listen to this one and got through it equally as quickly. It’s definitely darker and more challenging than the first book, with Pip becoming more complex as a character as she throws herself into another case and the subject matter of some
of the crimes. I did guess the guilty party fairly early on which is why I’ve reduced the rating slightly, but the storytelling, particularly the character development, was fantastic again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence

Moderate: Kidnapping