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Moordgids voor Lieve Meisjes by Holly Jackson

634 reviews

meghan_w's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

I wasn’t sure about that his book at first and next thing you know, I’m finishing it. Absolutely worth the hype! So good! It is most definitely YA and has stupid teens making stupid choices that aren’t always realistic, but books don’t always have to be realistic or make sense to be good. This is one of those books!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Child death, Suicide, and Drug abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Violence

taylorp98's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Racism, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Suicide, Child death, and Sexual assault

bkin's review against another edition

funny mysterious relaxing 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

4.5

This was a reread, but I love this book. Such a great story and LOVE Pip and Ravi. I can’t get enough of them. The epilogue makes me kick my feet in the air

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Animal death, Rape, and Drug abuse

Nothing graphic but all pretty serious plot points.

my_personal_escape's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Grief, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Alcohol, Murder, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Pedophilia, and Vomit

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Kidnapping, Car accident, Mental illness, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Death of parent, Confinement, Self harm, and Drug use

bieberbeaver's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Drug use

lavenderprince01's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

Omg! This book was so good!
When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it and discussing it with my friend who had read it
It was so tense and stressful in the best possible way

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Child death, Violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Vomit, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Blood, Car accident, Drug use, Racism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Animal death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, and Self harm

eleos01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Xenophobia, Racism, Body shaming, Self harm, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Confinement

em_no_el30's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Self harm, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Sexual assault, and Racism

ed_moore's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

‘A Good Girls Guide to Murder’ is the story of Pip, a college aged girl who decides to write her EPQ on how Sal Singh, the murderer of Andie Bell 5 years ago and victim of his own suicide, is actually innocent. It was a murder mystery with so many elements and threads to follow that it was hard to keep track which clues tied to which suspects, but ultimately ended in quite an ungrounded outcome.

The plot was extremely engaging and kept me listening (I audio booked it resulting in one of my main criticisms), however though engaging due to its nature as a murder mystery with so many theories and angles the writing itself wasn’t so great. Jackson’s prose was quote typical of a YA and in no manner anything remarkable, just did the job in telling the story, and her characters were also mostly one dimensional and flat, the suspects were bad and everyone else was good, they served their role in the plot and nothing more.
 

The story itself would probably warrant somewhere between 3-3.5 but it has really been dragged down by the narration of the audiobook. Though this is no fault of the writing it was a format I really didn’t enjoy, dramatised by voice actors for scenes of speech and especially added sound effects, rings and voice distortions for phone calls. I just didn’t enjoy such. The mystery was engaging but everything else was just fine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, and Child abuse

juan_jc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Rape, Body shaming, Murder, Sexual assault, Bullying, Drug use, Death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol and Adult/minor relationship