Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

91 reviews

sas_ram's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

It's been awhile since if read GGGTM. But I think I liked that better than this second part. It's still pretty good though. In some way I thought the plot twist wasn't properly prepared. In another way that made it more interesting and unforseeable. Honestly not much action is happening until the last third of the book but it's not boring though. The aftermath was quite interesting but I felt like it doesn't need a part 3. The ending is a little open but in my opinion it's in away that keeps the imagination running and still isn't like the plot hasn't ended. 
I had a good time with this book. Let's see what the final part brings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Stalking, Confinement, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Car accident

onemamareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.75

Read my full review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/good-girl-bad-blood

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Child death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

I don’t care how inept a police department is, they’re not going to sit around and let an 18 year old girl and her high school friends traipse through potential crime scenes, create search parties, and investigate a possible missing person/murder. It’s wildly unbelievable and yet, somehow, you forget all of that and just pay attention to the fact that Pip has an uncanny way of reading the clues to solve big puzzles no one else can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infidelity, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Rape, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

ashylibrarian's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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? No

4.0

This was a decent follow-up to A Good Girls Guide to Murder. I appreciated the podcast aspect of the story, feeling that it was realistic and unique. That being said, it was a bit more difficult for me to buy into this story because it uses most of the same characters with a similar plot line. 

How could the police ignore Pippa for a second time after she only just recently solve the 5-year-old mystery murder case for their town? I can't seem to imagine the town would die down and let her solve this next mystery on her own without some sort of media attention. 

With that being said, I still enjoyed this audiobook and had a fun time reading through it and trying to solve what happened.

I am torn if I will continue on to book 3 or let my curiosity die here and pick up other Holly Jackson books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Murder, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

gothmiku's review against another edition

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: Murder and Kidnapping

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

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

ebantum29's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Murder

math_scooter's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

græder græder og græder så meget at jeg måtte kæmpe for at læse de sidste kapitler af bogen gennem mine tårer. måtte stoppe mig selv fra ikke bare, at bestille den sidste i serien online lige med det samme.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Confinement, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Death, Stalking, Gun violence, Child death, Murder, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual assault, Car accident, Drug use, and Rape

Minor: Cancer

kelseyr713's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

As soon as I finished the first book in this series, I put books 2 and 3 on hold at the library. Book 2 did NOT disappoint, and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. The mystery was intriguing and was satisfyingly solved, in addition to wrapping up a loose end from book 1. There are some odd British-isms, like in the first book, despite being set in Connecticut, but everything else was so compelling I let that slide. Can't wait to read the final book in the trilogy!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Confinement, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Stalking, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexism, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Animal death, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

elliizzzabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.5

Excellent sequel to A Good Girl's guide to murder. Extremely gripping, I burned through the audiobook in only a few days, finding every moment to find out what happened. 
I liked the new angle with a live case now and we get to see the reaction of the family as well as the way the podcast episodes affect them. Again, it wasn't the biggest twist of all time and I was able to work out most of it before the reveal. Although I did think that

it was a little bit too obvious to have the new neighbours as the killers. You knew they had to have something to do with the case otherwise why had they been included?

This edition of the audiobook (because I belive there is another) was very well done with effects put in that really added to the story. However I am tempted to recommend you read this in print as there were several images in the story that were mentioned but that obviously I couldn't see. Also there is one section where a witness uses a voice modulator and it was completely impossible to tell what he was saying. Luckily it wasn't too crucial but it was kind of annoying 
Looking forward to the 3rd book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, Blood, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Car accident, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Cancer, Stalking, Child abuse, Suicide, and Terminal illness

There is a side plot about a court trial of a serial rapist and his victims and also at the end Pip suffers from a lot of disassociation and ptsd-type symptoms

c_e_w's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Trafficking, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Vomit, Child death, Cursing, Death, Grief, Rape, Stalking, Violence, Child abuse, and Gore