Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Jogo Fatal by Holly Jackson

39 reviews

emissbooklife5's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Fun book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent

Spoiler: She trusted Elliot and it makes me mad also Lauren and Ant she trusted. Just wait Pip for ggbb…

literarymary95's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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? No

4.5

I really enjoyed this novella. I thought it was a fun light read and it still kept me reading.

It's best to be read after you read A Good Girl's Guide to Murder since this novella doesn't require any characterization after you read the first book. I thought the murder mystery dinner was a great a light thought-experiment to get Pip into solving murders and how she thinks.

Just to be clear, the novella is not really connected to the series other than characters from A Good Girl's Guide to Murder are in there and it shows what sparks Pip's idea for her senior project.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, and Terminal illness

Minor: Drug use, Suicide, and Alcohol

corabookworm's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

A wonderful short story with a fun mystery and a great look back at AGGGTM's lovable cast of characters. I really liked the slow twisting together of clues and trying to solve the mystery along with Pip. It also did a good job of showing her get into mystery-solving, even if it didn't give her REAL motivation for the Andie Bell case like I thought it would. It was very Pip. The only negative point for me was that they kept switching between their real names and their fake character names and it confused me lol.

Also Pip's answer was so good and true. Though I kind of knew it was too complicated for a murder mystery game. I liked it wayyyy better.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, and Alcohol

The main characters play a murder mystery game that involves murder, blood, affairs, drugs, gambling, etc.. Even in the book it is all fictional, nothing happens to the main characters. In their real-world, one character drinks and they make references to a murder that happened in their town.

letiross's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, and Terminal illness

Minor: Drug use, Suicide, and Alcohol

pvp_niki's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Gun violence, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

abbiebonnyman's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction and Drug use

Minor: Cancer

mony_12's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, and Terminal illness

Minor: Drug use, Suicide, and Alcohol

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious 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? No

4.75

This book was just a bit of fun and a really good prequel to a great series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer and Sexual content

crieraylas's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Terminal illness

Minor: Child death, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

isabelvegga's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

I don’t think this novella is very necessary except for the last chapter but I liked knowing why Pip chose Andie and Sal’s case for her project

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Cancer and Cursing

Minor: Infidelity and Suicide