Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

175 reviews

ephemeralzen's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

gothmiku's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Car accident, and Death of parent

thorn_n_thistle_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, and Rape

rinyy's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child abuse and Child death

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

Like the first book in the series, this was also an incredible book. I did find it to be a little less together than 'A Good Girls Guide to Murder' but I still absolutely loved the book. The characters and the plot line were well planned and executed. I watch and read a lot of crime based shows, movies and books and often find myself working out the ending way before I reach it but with this, there were so many options and twists that I found myself guessing over and over again as the plot developed.

Again, the audiobook only added to my reading experience with this book as it is a full cast audiobook but it also has phone calls as actual phone calls, when Pip is reading from her case notes, you can hear the movement of paper, when she records conversations, you can hear the equipment whirring and beeping etc. The audiobook was a fully immersive experience and it was brilliant. I also really enjoyed hearing elements of the podcast created by Pip in this book, it was a clever continuation from the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

whosgina's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious relaxing 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse and Drug use

bill_nai_bxtch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This was an amazing read! The only reason this one isn’t getting 5 stars is because everything came together too quickly in the end compared to the first book. It also seemed to come out of nowhere, but it was still written so well and gave me the shock of the century. Definitely wasn’t expecting this ending. Worth the read!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Car accident

tsked_off'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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual assault

aalysad's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

5.0

I think I loved this one more than the first! Still the same PLL vibes and I ate it up! The audiobook was great with a full cast and the same narrator for Pip. I loved the twists in this one too! The way Pip’s shock was described and written in the end was so realistic. I think I have a new favorite mystery/thriller series. Onto the next one! 💕

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

zeynus's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury