Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

As Good As Dead Collector's Edition by Holly Jackson

352 reviews

violetbentbackwards1036's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

jbry44's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Stalking, Toxic friendship

josxphinchen's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

chris_reads's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I have to say, Jackson really knows how to write tense scenes. The stalking portion was genuinely scary. The second part was pretty far-fetched, but I enjoyed it overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Stalking

Moderate: Addiction, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Emotional abuse

abigail_moffat's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness

Minor: Animal death, Rape, Vomit

mrsmishler's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I felt like this was such a death to Pip’s character, I found myself getting so angry with her for the choices she made, and all the fallout that it caused. I still enjoyed the book, but it just felt so extreme how she started to behave. I know there was significant trauma and now the substance use, but it felt like too much of a departure from her character. 

With that said I do think the story lines up well, and the plot itself felt well thought out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Animal death

grace33's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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: Kidnapping, Stalking

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Murder

Minor: Animal death

erica_cronje's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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2022 Review:
That was one wild ride, a good ride, but wild non the less. There were so many intense moments that were just. . .chef's kiss perfectly written.

Pip's decent was great to track nd read about through the series. I am obsessed with the fact that Elliot introduced the idea of falling down a rabbit hole in the first book, and without using those words basically ever again, we see how Pip mentally falls down it.  It's like seeing the idea of a theme growing throughout the books into a real theme that the basically, becomes the main reasoning/plot for this book. 

Focusing on Pip in particular through the series. . .We all know Pip starts as the generic good girl, hell it is even in the title, but so subtly throughout the first book already, her investigation and everything that happens to her and that she witnesses changes her and by the end, she really isn't such a good girl anymore. This can be seen in small changes in her personality in the second book, which is still determined to title itself on her goodness and maybe i am reading into this, but it is because she really honestly believes she is still the same good girl, or wants to believe it anyway. But in some small ways, she is clearly no longer that exact good girl. For one, she curses a lot more in the second book and the actions and happenings of the first book constantly haunts her. She is also more ruthless in her attempt to find Jamie and then. . .by the end she is clearly no longer any form of a good girl and she has accepted it as well. She is thoroughly fucked up now and there is no stopping it and it just gets progressively worse throughout this book until she murders and knows in what state to leave the body and how to get there without any form of remorse. 

Pip went from innocent detective trying to capture a cold blooded murderer, to becoming the cold blooded murderer, and it is done so perfectly, the process already starts in the first book, but of course we don't notice it then, once more adding to the rabbit hole effect. And that ability, to write like that, is what i love most about this book and the entire series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Animal death

savanah_reads's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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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this book was absolutely amazing. well, the whole series is. i love the way the characters grow and develop throughout the series, the relationships that are made and the wit of the main character, pip.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

ephemeralzen's review against another edition

4.5

challenging 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail