Reviews tagging 'Death'

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

733 reviews

natasha_dean's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use

grahus28's review against another edition

5.0

challenging 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

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This book slays.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Blood, Stalking, Murder

Minor: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury

lion_between_the_pages's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit

Minor: Rape

ebantum29's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness

rubyedwards's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

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A deserving sequel. Although I didn't enjoy the second book as much,  I loved the first, and this one was just as good (if not, better). Covers dark, graphic content- quite significantly more so than the first two. The plot was clever and thought through, the ending giving a sense of satisfaction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment

alice451's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

natdev's review against another edition

4.75

dark 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

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i thought this was a perfect ending. you can see as the series goes on that pippa's ideas of right-and-wrong and black-and-white get more complex with each case she takes on and that she's starting to grapple with the idea that people arent so simple, even in the world of crime. 
so i thought it was fitting that, in the end, pippa herself becomes the biggest gray area of the series. all she wants is to protect her friends and family, at whatever cost. she even says that she could have walked away, so its clear from the fact that she didnt (and subsequently let the story take the path that it did) that she was accepting that the balance between being good and being bad is a scale rather than an absolute truth. a scale that everything in the series has a spot on, including andie bell, elliot ward, the police department, charlie green, and herself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Rape

elliizzzabeth's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really regret reading this book. From the first page it is obvious that Pip is struggling with some deep trauma from the end of the last book. What she desperately needs is some therapy but instead we get this shitshow. 
It's started slow and then it started to get interesting when she was researching the DT killer but then it took a nosedive in the second half. Pip makes a series of truly baffling decisions and drags all of us down into this madness. The whole time I was screaming at the book for her to stop making it all worse.
A lot of the plot felt very forced, as if Holly Jackson wanted it to go a certain way but had to make her characters do stupid things to make that happen. It also felt like it had odd morals

why was it not okay for Elliott Ward to frame Sal but it was okay for Pip to frame Max? Why was it not seen as justice when Charlie killed Stanley, but it was Justice to have Max arrested for a crime he didn't commit? And in the end she got away with it! I thought for sure she was going to get caught and she was going to see the error of her ways but nope! The story fully supported her actions. Maybe Holly Jackson was trying to do some sort of unreliable narrator but it really didn't feel like it. I lost all my respect I had for her - I desperately wanted her to get caught!

 
Overall, I really wish I hadn't read this book. It made me incredibly angry throughout and has tainted my view of what I had thought before was a pretty decent series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury

m_a_r_i_a_m's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

Minor: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Vomit

maria_y's review against another edition

5.0

challenging 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

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omg this book is so intense, I would have never guessed that Jason bell was the killer and when pip killed him I was so shook. This is definitely the best book in the series, it’s dark, intense and definitely most like a true crime. But I’m very mad about Ravi and Pip breaking up at the end.

but that’s where my complaints end, it’s a wonderful book definitely recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury