Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson

165 reviews

quinn4's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Grief, Murder, Rape, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual assault, Stalking, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, and Bullying

huntress's review against another edition

mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Drug use, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Sexual harassment, Violence, Death of parent, Dementia, Fatphobia, Grief, Sexual violence, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Body shaming, and Bullying

at806's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Stalking, Rape, Car accident, Death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Grief, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

emma3674's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

Amazing, super intriguing, found it a bit boring at the start

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Blood, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Drug use, Murder, Animal death, Car accident, and Cursing

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Rape, Emotional abuse, and Grief

fictionaladventures's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

I am SPEECHLESS. I seriously don’t know what to say. This was PHENOMENAL. 

Wow, what a ride. I can’t remember the last time I was so entranced by a book, so glued to the page that I couldn’t stop reading if I tried. From the very beginning, the story was unique, engaging, and unpredictable, but it was also masterful on the sentence-level. Every bit of this story lived up to the hype. I read so much that I very rarely “can’t put a book down” because I’m used to books’ usual thrills, but I COULDN’T PUT THIS DOWN. I spent a good chunk of the end with my hand clamped over my mouth in shock. I couldn’t be more excited to read the sequels!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Grief, Murder, and Bullying

Moderate: Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Vomit, Self harm, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Car accident

happyladyjadereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.75

Read in less than 24 hours, this moves so quickly it's hard to keep up with all the red herrings -  please check trigger warnings!! This is v dark subject matter even if lightly written for younger audience. Loved the multimedia effect of the evidence collected in murder investigation and the characters are all quite well drawn, not just the excellent main characters. Engrossing, poignant in places and a vindicating end- Def one of my better reads this year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Vomit, and Sexual assault

Minor: Bullying, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Violence

bookswithsara8's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious sad medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Grief, Suicide, and Bullying

Minor: Vomit, Self harm, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, and Child abuse

annevh's review

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Listened to this on audiobook while doing some diy and it was pretty entertaining. The story had twists and turns that kept me engaged, and although it had a pretty dark subject it was an easy listen. Really reminded me of the truly devious series, i think because of the characters that populated the story, but i think i preferred this one. All in all, just a nice read :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Bullying

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape

reb_vo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Fascinating, but perhaps not the genre for me. I don't have any umbridge with the way it was written; rather, I realized that when reading it I don't like the whole premise. The idea of a teenager poking into a murder/suicide investigation and solving it makes me.... uncomfortable. So I will probably not be reading more stuff like that, but if you do like that, then this is probably a great book for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Suicide, Death, Violence, Car accident, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Drug abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Sexism, and Child abuse

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, Rape, and Dementia