Reviews tagging 'Torture'

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

126 reviews

jessw17's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Stalking, Torture, Cursing, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

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

kaylaannsreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Grief, Torture, Stalking, Confinement, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

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

curlynerdy13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Death

xbrooke_h23x's review against another edition

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

Absolutely adore this book, it’s so intense and there is so many amazing plot twists, love seeing Pip and Ravi develop, I know Holly won’t but I need more to the ending, Holly’s writing is beautiful and I hope she keeps writing more totally worth the time! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Child death, and Sexual assault

josxphinchen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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, Stalking, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Blood, Gore, Addiction, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

alexandra200177's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, Sexual assault, and Torture

linnea1801's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This is the best book of the trilogy!

You can finally see the effects that all this murder and investigating has on Pip’s mental health. It makes sense that she reacts to everything so differently from the first book, as she’s lost her faith in the police.

It’s also way more entertaining than the rest of the series. The other books had one structure: the first part consisting of investigation leading to an interesting climax. However both beginnings were very slow and not very interesting. This Book doesn’t suffer from this issue. Right from the start the stakes are high and the story is interesting. The entire book had me captivated from the beginning and never lost my interest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Stalking