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As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

30 reviews

kyrstin_p1989's review

dark emotional 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? No

3.5

While Pip isn’t as naive as she was two books ago, there is still just a lot in this novel that represents a more juvenile perspective on life and that makes the story unrealistic. I love the romance and family elements that were included in this latest installment. I’m surprised, in a way, about Pip’s actions and her acceptance of them but lean towards believe that she did what was best. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, and Vomit

ev3lin's review

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

Cried at the end 🤠

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Vomit, Violence, Animal death, Murder, and Mental illness

Minor: Animal death, Rape, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Kidnapping, Car accident, Stalking, Murder, and Blood

thefemale_nickmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I want to know Holly Jackson’s search history because I feel like it would be concerning….

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Animal death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, and Torture

Minor: Vomit, Car accident, and Toxic relationship

sunniva174's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, Drug use, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Rape, Death of parent, Addiction, and Sexual assault

Minor: Car accident

gothmiku's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

I’m scared of Holly Jackson’s search history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Animal death, and Cancer

ahite's review

adventurous challenging 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

grahus28's review against another edition

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

5.0

This book slays.

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Content Warnings

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

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

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing 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

5.0

I love this more than anything else
I am but a shell of person now

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Misogyny, Addiction, Animal death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Kidnapping, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Confinement, Blood, Mental illness, Sexism, Vomit, Body horror, Cursing, Drug abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, and Violence

holliesatchell's review against another edition

challenging 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Car accident, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Sexual assault, Stalking, Vomit, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

nikexistiertnik's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense

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

3.5

well, i just refreshed the page and lost everything i wrote, so i'm gonna try to piece it together from memory.
i am exhausted.
this book was way too long and way too stressful - i was kept on my toes for about 300 pages straight without a chance to relax even a little bit.
the premise was unexpected, but interesting to me, although it felt dragged out a lot and could've definitely been kept shorter.

what makes this book - at least in my eyes - worse than its prequels: the dt killer reveal wasn't a surprising reveal at all - i was really disappointed that pip and ravi chose to focus on dan again, when it was so obvious after andie's email that jason bell was dt.
in the previous books, pip always seemed to be on a similar track as the reader, but this time she was uncharacteristically off about this stuff, which could be tied to her ptsd and other struggles, but it still struck me as really weird.
the whole "tie together all the strings everything comes together in the end in a full circle"-thing had me swaying from side to side, on the one hand i kinda enjoyed seeing everyone again and i love it when all the dots connect, but on the other hand it was just so. much. and very obvious the author wanted to pull out all the stops, but there were just too many.
the ending was such a relief to me; i would've been so disappointed, had i stressed myself to the point of exhaustion reading this book, without it ending the way it did.

in general, i did enjoy the writing again, although the use of the word "sniff" as a verb as well as a noun was excessive.
in conclusion, not a bad book, it was enjoyable, but i didn't like it as much as the first two, and I don't think i could read it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Stalking, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Cursing, and Vomit