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Moordgids voor lieve meisjes by Holly Jackson

317 reviews

msatomicbomb's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Animal death, and Rape

Minor: Vomit and Violence

sadiebugreads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Bullying

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Murder, and Infidelity

Minor: Animal death, Alcohol, Car accident, Vomit, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Self harm

icedlemonade's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

IT WAS MR WARD I SWEAR I NEVER WOULDVE GUESSED

I would give this book as many stars as I could, all of it goes to Holly Jackson herself, the wonderful author of this masterpiece 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Rape, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness

Minor: Vomit, Self harm, and Racism

goodboibeefs's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Drug use, Sexual assault, Death, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Grief, and Sexual violence

auburnbell's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

This is a short book that takes a bit to get off the ground before things start to unravel. I am not a fan of mystery noir where the twists and who-done-it is voluntarily revealed by the main characters. Think cartoon evil villains that waste time telling you every detail of their plan only to be foiled by the hero. The amount of times I yelled “NO ONE WOULD DO THIS” were limitless. Pip was deeply naive until the very end and that’s disappointing. Veronica Mars without any of the moxy, intuition, or crime fighting skill. I finished it because it was quick, not because it was worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Murder

teddy_books'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? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual assault, Rape, and Kidnapping

Minor: Self harm, Death of parent, Vomit, and Domestic abuse

lottie1803's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Animal death, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Sexual violence, and Drug abuse

rose398's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

A well written mystery that keeps you guessing but definitely intended for a teenage audience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Rape, and Kidnapping

Minor: Self harm, Toxic friendship, Car accident, and Death of parent

cowboy_scorpio's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, Racism, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, and Toxic friendship

12rhys23's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I struggled to finish this one. I think I almost DNFed about 4 times but powered through.

The main character is awful. She's very underwritten and not fleshed out at all other than called "smart" and "quirky". I don't think I learned anything more about her from page 1 till the end, who she really was as a person. She engages in bad behavior such as blackmail, breaking and entering, theft, and manipulation of her friends in order to trick them into giving her answers, and never gets called out for it, to the extent you really have to raise your suspension of disbelief beyond reasonable levels. No one acts like a real person! They just spill all their secrets to a high schooler because the plot demands it.

I gave it a 2/5 stars, but only because I was able to finish it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Child death, Bullying, Drug use, Sexual assault, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Stalking, and Toxic friendship