Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

213 reviews

saumyagupta's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

Loved loved loved reading this book. Pip's behavioural changes throughout the book leading to the book's climax was shocking but looking at it back, it isn't out of character. The way Holly Jackson has connected all the three books together is insane

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, Death, Grief, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Minor: Stalking, Vomit, and Suicide

sarahangeline's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Kidnapping, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Blood, Rape, Death of parent, Child death, Grief, Toxic friendship, Stalking, and Drug use

alycnsuha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

idk but this creeps me out🥲 maybe bc i dont really read mystery but hey WTF I ALMOST SHAT MYSELF THAT LAST PART WAS BRUTAL AS HELL. this more traumatizing than a little life did 😭😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Kidnapping, Death, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Stalking, and Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

bellaq's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

Amazing couldn't put the book down couldn't stop reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Violence, Medical content, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Cursing, Drug use, Murder, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

sabrinabeschke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Death, Murder, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime, Rape, Sexual violence, Cursing, Grief, Child death, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Stalking, and Cancer

ninariella's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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: Blood, Drug use, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Violence, Rape, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child abuse, Death, Suicide, Body shaming, and Fire/Fire injury

booking_along's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

“…i truly believed it was some kind of victory l, that the bad would be punished. because it was the truth, and the truth was the most important thing to be. it’s all u believed in, all u cared about: finding the truth, no matter the cost. …but justice doesn’t exist, and the truth dienst matter, not in the real world…”

did not expect that twisted reveal! 

this book was a bit on the slower side but when it got going it was off and racing! 

i did like that a lot of this book was Pip trying to deal with what happened in book one and that it actually discussed that solving murders and figuring out mysteries and what bad stuff people do can be traumatic. 

honestly the biggest issue i have with this book-which is one i have with a lot of YA books - is if a 16/17 year old does a better job than a trained adult. 

now in this particular series it’s not as hard -honestly the police “force” of this town is very clearly shown as utterly useless and just feeling self important instead of actually doing their jobs. 


beside that this book was very well done. 

between the struggles of what Pip still had to deal with from what happened in book one and the internet trolls coming at her through her podcast… it was very well done. 


and as i already said - i did not see that big twist coming. 
mostly because i don’t think it was possible to solve it? but hey i am no sherlock so i don’t even try to say that i remember every little hint the author might have placed in this book to point towards the actual baddy in this book -i didn’t see them and was surprised but the explanations made enough sense that i didn’t mind being blind sided by it. 


i really enjoyed this! very well done!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Grief, Blood, and Bullying

schmutzanna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Murder and Death

Moderate: Gore and Blood

Minor: Drug use, Rape, Chronic illness, Stalking, and Grief

nele_281's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Confinement, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Rape

Minor: Car accident and Cursing

bo0k_wh0re's review against another edition

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

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

5.0

love as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gore, Sexual assault, Grief, Gaslighting, Violence, Kidnapping, Rape, Murder, Drug abuse, Body horror, and Blood