Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Jogo Fatal by Holly Jackson

27 reviews

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.

ddemakeas's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

Pip is a delight— but this is a very good segue into the main series! It got me very excited to read AGGTM. Would definitely recommend, even if you don’t want to read the series.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Terminal illness, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Incest

Only a brief mention, and isn’t mentioned again but figured it would be useful!

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

redempta's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

4 🌟

I liked this novella. I'm glad I read it after the rest of the series. I feel like it makes more sense this way. 

It was fun trying to find the murderer. I was going in the same direction as Pip. 

I liked how it introduced the rest of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Blood, and Death of parent

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

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

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

taroroot's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

rare audiobook W for me. its nice to know that ant & lauren have been annoying since book 1/2. excited for the show to come out <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Alcohol

camoo3032's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Only Holly Jackson would have the skill to make a lighthearted murder mystery party such an engaging story. Such a fun addition to the GGGTM series

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Alcohol, War, and Classism