Reviews tagging 'Torture'

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

145 reviews

extrafolklore's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

j_osiiie's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

This book is way darker than the first two and follows a different kind of story if that makes sense 
I just love these characters so much!!!! 

Ad the beginning it’s kind of slow pasted but when things start to pick up it’s going real fast I couldn’t stop listening! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Torture

mengevik_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Torture, and Grief

Minor: Addiction and Drug abuse

emmajh91's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Rape

heavster's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

goldyyy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

jessicasophie's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

tristaesque's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Torture, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

candearangotobon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

Be prepared for a lot of plot twists and very heavy scenes, I think the book should have trigger warnings for some people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

nikexistiertnik's review against another edition

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

Moderate: Rape

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